In this week's episode, Attorney Rosensweig is discussing citizen's arrest laws and how they relate to the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, the young man who was jogging through a quiet, Georgia neighborhood when he was savagely gunned down by a father and son. Can Gregory and Travis McMichael successfully argue that the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery was lawful by asserting that what they did was further to a lawful citizen's arrest? Is there any way they can prove that what they did met Georgia's citizen's arrest statute? Even if, hypothetically, Ahmaud Arbery was actually running away after committing a crime, did they comply with the law in terms of what they did once they stopped him? Does the law allow a civilian to not just stop someone but kill them? Ms. Rosensweig explains the citizen's arrest law in terms of when it is lawful to "arrest" a person and, more importantly, what it allows someone to do once making a citizen's arrest. Ms. Rosensweig also talks about the dangers in keeping citizen's arrest laws on the books and how these laws have been used by people to commit heinous and often racially motivated crimes.
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