08-07-2008, 08:36
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Re: No wonder people don't get involved
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Originally Posted by Studio25
There's more to it than the story shows. Any citizen is allowed to use "reasonable force" to detain suspects. From the CPS website: |
That's the problem though - one person's interpretation of 'reasonable force' is not necessarily another person's. The police initially thanked this guy. They didn't arrest him on the spot, so it didn't seem to them that he was using unreasonable force. He actually got a thumping himself. |
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