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A comment on FBI’s Deep Web Child Porn Ring Questions Role of Gov’t in Society. Parent comment

Re:FBI’s Deep Web Child Porn Ring Questions Role of Gov’t in... by syshum on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @05:21AM (#12434596)
A private citizen most certainly can detain and subdue person violating the law. Atleast in the US.

Now if you do this and the person is not in fact violating the law it will be you being arrested however if I catch someone breaking into my home at 3am I most certainly can use physical force to detain him/her.

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Re:FBI’s Deep Web Child Porn Ring Questions Role of Gov’t in... by gwright on Saturday September 10, 2016 @01:30AM (#12467845)
Of course, but this is an example of a citizen using special police powers because they are acting in the role of a police officer. In that role, the citizen or the actual police officer is enabled to do things that are not otherwise permitted -- they are following different rules.
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