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Makes me wonder if anyone has ever been charged with resisting a citizen’s arrest.

• zdragnar 4y ago
  No, but you'll definitely get charged with false imprisonment if a judge decides your citizen's arrest was unwarranted.
  • euroderf 4y ago
    Yup, that is the deterrent.
  • kevviiinn 4y ago
    Or the police will just gun everyone down, I wouldn't be surprised
• chimeracoder 4y ago
  > Makes me wonder if anyone has ever been charged with resisting a citizen’s arrest. Citizen's arrest is a state phenomenon, meaning that there it's not one single law but rather a function of a variety of laws in states and which differ between states. That said, most modern citizen's arrest systems in the US trace their origins back to the Civil War era, to provide a way to arrest alleged escaped slaves (emphasis on "alleged"). You can imagine how that played out in practice.