Note: I’m not asking for legal advice. Rather, it’s a thing in some countries (like Japan or Indonesia) as I recall watching a video depicting an Australian tourist in Indonesia witnessesing people pursuing the phone snatcher by ganging up on him in which they eventually caught the dude & undercover cops managed to arrest him. Now, the question remains: are people in the US allowed to conduct a citizens arrest in the US?
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen's_arrest, yes but it relies on state law so the specifics vary state by state.
When will they ever learn to agree, at least with some topics?
When all States around the world agree to the same laws?
Never. Some states are ran by and largely occupied by dumbasses that haven’t learned a new fact since 1995. I’ve lived in several of them so I’m not just being rude.
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