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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 5069394" data-attributes="member: 63706">Did you read the law? I didn't have the phrasing exact, but it means the same. From Wilbur's link to the statute:"If the offense is a felony and the offender is escaping or attempting to escape, a private person may arrest him upon reasonable and probable grounds of suspicion." They didn't need to witness a felony to attempt to arrest someone who is trying to escape, if they have reasonable and probable grounds of suspicion. Whether they did indeed have such grounds will be up to the jury to decide. For now, we have to presume that they did, and that they had a right to attempt to arrest Arbery, until it is proven otherwise.</blockquote>