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gerogie2

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12. "It's called a citizens' arrest," he said. Wrong.

Reply to UTUSN (Original post)

Wed Sep 3, 2014, 11:19 PM

Sep 2014

No person except a law enforcement officer can arrest any one for violation of a Federal law. Also the illegal immigrants are not committing a crime, but a civil infraction which Federal agents can detain them for, but no one else can.

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Double bwah-HAH!1 Militia nut"patrolling the border" shot at by Border Patrol, is a convicted FELON [View all] UTUSN Sep 2014 OP

why did the Border Patrol shoot at him? Enrique Sep 2014 #1

iirc he was armed, so his handling of his weapon may have been interpreted as a threat. nt pinboy3niner Sep 2014 #4

It's in the previous DU link. The BP was chasing undocumenteds in the dark & the militia jerk UTUSN Sep 2014 #5

lol, Cameron Diaz Enrique Sep 2014 #7

I love her hair pinboy3niner Sep 2014 #14

I wonder how many of them are part of the prison chapter of Ayran Brotherhood malaise Sep 2014 #2

Yeah shenmue Sep 2014 #3

Funny! Catherine Vincent Sep 2014 #6

while the Militia are sitting in a border camp, how are they paying the bills at hom? misterhighwasted Sep 2014 #8

I love it! herding cats Sep 2014 #9

No, but he may be the "brightest" one on the border: kentauros Sep 2014 #10

He was like a beacon in the night herding cats Sep 2014 #11

I don't have a problem with him being a felon, kentauros Sep 2014 #15

Maybe it was a borrowed gun? herding cats Sep 2014 #16

We share the same point of view on this issue. kentauros Sep 2014 #17

"It's called a citizens' arrest," he said. Wrong. gerogie2 Sep 2014 #12

Maybe he was that nutjob caller on Thom Hartmann tuesday Populist_Prole Sep 2014 #13