The main defense argument for three white people at the trial in Georgia for killing Ahmaud Arber, a black jogging, was that they tried to arrest residents under the Civil War era law which was then revoked in the midst of shooting.
Defense can still use the law revoked in their defense because, as a lawyer said, it was “land law” during the shooting of February 2020.
It was legal in Georgia for people to arrest someone where they had “the reason for entering Sense and possible suspicion “that the person has just committed a crime.
Parliamentarians now limit the detention of citizens for certain circumstances, such as shop owners who see theft or restaurant workers see “eat-and-run”.
Most US states have codified several forms of laws that allow the arrest of citizens.
Ira Robbins, a legal professor at American University in Washington, wrote in an academic paper, “While recruiting citizens to help eradicate crime is a noble idea, strict protection is needed to prevent the law from being misused.”