ATLANTA (AP) Georgia lawmakers took another step Monday to repeal a citizen's arrest...
ATLANTA (AP) Gov. Brian Kemp plans to sign a repeal of Georgia's Civil War-era...
Georgias House have voted unanimously for a bill to overhaul the state's citizens arrest law
ATLANTA (AP) Gov. Brian Kemp plans to sign a repeal of Georgia's Civil War-era citizens arrest law on Monday, a year after the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, a...
Georgia lawmakers took another step Monday to repeal a citizen’s arrest law predating the Civil War, acting little more than a year after the <a href="https://a
ATLANTA (AP) Georgia lawmakers took another step Monday to repeal a citizen's arrest law predating the Civil War, acting little more than a year after the fatal shooting of...
ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia House of Representatives voted unanimously on Monday to repeal a citizen's arrest law predating the Civil War, acting little more than a year after the...
Georgia’s Senate has voted 52-1 for a bill to overhaul the state's citizen’s arrest law
The House voted 173-0 for House Bill 479 after a debate weighted with Georgia's white supremacist history.
ATLANTA (AP) Georgia lawmakers gave final passage Wednesday to a bill to repeal the...
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers gave final passage Wednesday to a bill to repeal the state's citizen's arrest law, acting little more than a year after the fatal shooting of...
The mother of a Black man pursued and killed by white men who said they suspected him of a crime says she is “thankful, very thankful” that Georgia has repealed its Civil War-era citizen's arrest law. Wanda Cooper-Jones, the mother of Ahmaud Arbery, spoke Monday after Gov. Brian Kemp signed House Bill 479, which says bystanders can no longer make an arrest in Georgia if a crime is committed in their presence.
The narratives surrounding the death of the 25-year-old began to diverge before his body was removed from the suburban Georgia street where he was shot.
Nearly two years before a jury convicted three white men in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, authorities had said there was no need to arrest them.
The narratives surrounding the death of the 25-year-old began to diverge before his body was removed from the suburban Georgia street where he was shot.
ATLANTA (AP) Georgia moved closer Thursday to the possible repeal of an 1863 law that lets private citizens make an arrest, more than a year after the fatal shooting...
Nov. 23—Prosecuting attorney Linda Dunikoski told jurors Monday that three White men followed flimsy suspicions based on "assumptions and driveway decisions" when they pursued a 25-year-old Black man to a violent death on Feb. 23, 2020. In short, Dunikoski told jurors, Ahmaud Arbery was hunted, trapped and murdered by Travis McMichael, 35, Greg McMichael, 65, and 52-year-old William "Roddie" ...
Nearly two years before a jury convicted three white men in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, authorities had said there was no need to arrest the trio.
The killing of Arbery in 2020 caused outrage and highlighted how Civil War-era law was used against Black people.
Gov. Brian Kemp has signed a repeal of Georgia's Civil War-era citizen’s arrest law on Monday
The verdict in the trial of three white men accused of murder and other crimes in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man, is now in the hands of 12
Georgia lawmakers took another step Monday to repeal a citizen's arrest law predating the Civil War, acting little more than a year after the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man pursued by armed white men. The Senate voted 52-1 for House Bill 479, which would end the right of people in Georgia to make an arrest if a crime is committed in the person’s presence “or within their immediate knowledge.” Sen. Bill Cowsert, an Athens Republican, gave an explanation
Georgia lawmakers gave final passage Wednesday to a bill to repeal the state's citizen's arrest law, acting little more than a year after the fatal shooting of a Black man pursued by white men who said they suspected him of a crime.
The mother of a Black man pursued and killed by white men who said they suspected him of a crime says she is thankful, very thankful that Georgia has repealed its Civil War-era citizens arrest law.
The verdict in the trial of three white men accused of murder and other crimes in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man, is now in the hands of 12
Offiicials say there are no plans to investigate local prosecutors and law enforcement agencies that did not file charges against the suspects for 10 weeks.
ATLANTA (AP) — The mother of a Black man pursued and killed by white men who said they suspected him of a crime says she is “thankful, very thankful” that Georgia has repealed its Civil War-era citizen’s arrest law.
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A pivotal defense argument of the three white men on trial in Georgia for killing Ahmaud Arbery, a Black jogger, is that they were trying to make a citizen's arrest under a Civil War-era law that was later repealed amid an uproar over the shooting. When the fatal encounter occurred on Feb. 23, 2020, it was legal in Georgia for people to arrest someone where they had "reasonable and probable grounds of suspicion" that the person had just committed a felony. Legal observers say pr
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Learn how to make a citizen's arrest with this guide.
Although better left to the police, Rupert Myers explains the law when performing a citizen's arrest
Learn how to make a citizen's arrest with this guide.
The powers exist but must be used with caution, explains a legal expert. They don't form a vigilante's charter.
The amended version of the Citizen’s Arrest and Self-defence Act gives people "reasonable time" after a crime has occured
An arrest is the act of depriving people of their liberty, usually in relation to an investigation or prevention of a crime, and thus detaining the arrested person in a procedure as part of the criminal justice system.
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Learn how to make a citizen's arrest with this guide.
The act of stopping someone and restricting their movement to take them into custody.
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The killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia exposes that state laws giving citizens discretion to arrest are both antiquated and dangerous.
Judith Timson would like the feds to extend her right to make a citizen's arrest even further. There are a whole lot of people she'd like to detain.
Laws enabling citizens to apprehend suspects were historically used in the U.S. to suppress slave revolts
In March, Canadian gamers were upset to learn that World of Warcraft traffic was being throttled by Rogers Cable and Telecom, the country's largest broadband provider. Now the company has admitted that other games' online traffic might trip its pipeline monitors and result in their throttling, which Rogers called "inadvertent." Canadian gamers do not accept that answer.
Speak loudly. Decide in advance if you’re going to use force.
Citizens occasionally apprehend supposed criminals, sometimes leading to disastrous results. Here are some important considerations in citizen's arrest.
Laws enabling citizens to apprehend suspects, which date back to medieval England, were historically used in the US to suppress slave revolts.
Rogers recently held a conference call ahead of its earnings call and you knew your pals at BGR would have all the goods for you. The most interesting topic covered? LTE! That’s right Verizon, your buddies north of the border aren’t just going to sit back and relax while you go all 4G on us. …
The latest attempt to make a citizen's arrest on Tony Blair is saluted by campaigner Peter Tatchell, who was beaten unconscious in his attempt to apprehend President Mugabe
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Most states still retain outdated laws that protect would-be vigilantes.
Citizen's arrests are legal in the United States, but state laws vary -- there are different rules for felonies vs. misdemeanors -- and i...
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Departments that have embraced cultural change are seeing results.
If asked to guess which area in the U.S ranked number one for the most homicides against the Black community, many would guess places like New York, Baltimore or maybe even Chicago. And they would be wrong.
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Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best announced her resignation on Tuesday, one day after the Seattle City Council cut the police department's budget, as part of reform efforts following mass protests against police violence. The surprise resignation came after months of calls to "defund the police
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On Wednesday a jury finally convicted a former Oklahoma police officer for fatally shooting the black boyfriend of his daughter in a racially charged case that featured three mistrials before a fourth trial found the ex-cop guilty.
But not for shooting a child playing with a toy gun.
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“The Fatal Encounter” is a film about an assassination attempt on King Jeongjo (played by Hyun Bin), the twenty-second ruler of the Joseon Dynasty who ruled from 1776-1800. King Jeongjo was preceded by his grandfather Yeongjo, who put Jeongjo’s father, the Crown Prince Sado, to death by royal decree. History states that the reason for this was Sado’s madness, which turned him into an alleged murderer and serial rapist. The setup for “The Fatal Encounter,&rdquo
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