re: Alleged video of Ahmaud Arbery shooting leaks

I doubt it

Same, hopefully the two rednecks get what they deserve.

Pirate king’s hot takes in this thread. Yikes.

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Wtf?? Is this a real response........ dude?

I live in Algiers Point and there’s a guy a few houses down that jogs almost everyday in Nike basketball shorts and basketball shoes.

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Not to mention it's already been corroborated that he regularly ran through that neighborhood.

I mean, garb being a point of contention is so silly it's mind-boggling. In my San Antonio neighborhood there's at least 3 dudes I regularly see running in clothes just like that. One black, two white. And I'm sure there are more.

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I’m so fricking sick of the word ‘alleged.’

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Because we know it's a video, right?

What’s the story with the video?

Who filmed it?

Did he know what was going to go down? Possible Accessory? Why just now released?

Didn’t this happen in Feb, but the arrests just recently happened? I’d assume due to video. Was it not it shown to cops at time of incident?

I haven’t heard a word about this whole incident until yesterday. Just terrible.

Kinda wish I hadn’t watched that.

Thanks

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Pirate king’s hot takes in this thread. Yikes.

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he's one of them.

Haven’t been able to keep up with this monstrous thread, so I apologize my post’s points have already been discussed. I responded to a guy in another thread asking about citizen’s arrest laws, and I’ll be goddamned if I did all that just to be buried in an anchored thread.

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Someone give me a scenario of how a citizens arrest should go down. Do the citizens arrest laws allow the citizen to arrest at gunpoint? If so, then they go free, period.


I found the Georgia statute on a couple of sites. Here is one

It says:

A private person may arrest an offender if the offense is committed in his presence or within his immediate knowledge. If the offense is a felony and the offender is escaping or attempting to escape, a private person may arrest him upon reasonable and probable grounds of suspicion.

Their actions don’t meet that standard in a couple of ways. Whatever the victim was doing, it wasn’t “in the presence” of the perps. Nor did they have “immediate knowledge” of the victim’s hypothetical crime. They may have suspected, but they didn’t—they couldn’t know. Also, he was neither “escaping” or “attempting to escape.” Even if he stuffed his pants with gold bricks at the house under construction, he had already escaped—he was running down the road. They would have had to try to detain him at that house. After he left there, he had escaped—past tense—and therefore could no longer be “escaping” or “attempting to escape.” You can’t create an artificial trap for which he has to escape from again. (Just to clarify, I am not in anyway saying the victim actually committed a crime. I am using worst case scenario to make the point that it doesn’t even matter if he had).

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The intent to kill the guy wasn’t there, in my opinion,


Looking at the Georgia statute that the other guy posted a couple of pages ago, I think intent/malice can easily be argued. However, it’s not even necessary:

“(c) A person commits the offense of murder when, in the commission of a felony, he or she causes the death of another human being irrespective of malice.”

Since the citizen’s arrest was not legal, the perps were “in the commission of a felony” themselves. Either aggravated assault or certainly false imprisonment:

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(a) A person commits the offense of false imprisonment when, in violation of the personal liberty of another, he arrests, confines, or detains such person without legal authority.


So since they were “in the commission of a felony” and “caused the death of another human being,” intent doesn’t have to be proven—it is “irrespective of malice.”