Re:I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled
by TheAdamAndChe on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @07:45AM
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Thankfully, it sounds like the officers involved didn't apply such unusual laws in order to irreversibly damage someone's life when they were stopping a thief. Punishing people for trying to do good things while ignoring thieves and vandalizers would be a fantastic way to cause a breakdown in civil society and a dissolution of trust in the law and government.
Re:I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled
by psychomugs on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @09:04AM
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There were no officers involved, the guy just left while taunting the victims that he’d come back to their store another day.
Taking the photos was probably not illegal.
Citizen’s arrest in California is legal for a misdemeanor (e.g., shoplifting as in your case) only when the arrestee is both factually guilty and committed the crime in the arresting person’s presence; whether or not the first part is true, by your description the second is not and you committed both battery and false imprisonment, possibly felony (by violence or menace) in the latter case.