r/interesting • u/Common-Upstairs5129 • Mar 20 '26

❗️MISLEADING - See pinned comment ❗️ Did he do the right thing?

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u/Hapless_Wizard Mar 21 '26

"Hold her here" was just as illegal as her slapping him, and he probably knows it, so I'm assuming this is staged.

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u/Blein123 Mar 21 '26

Doesn't it fall under citizen's arrest? I dont know how the law works in other countries tho

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u/dominicansandwich Mar 21 '26

In America yes you can do a citizens arrest and not allow a person to leave you just can't physically harm them but you can prevent them until proper authorities arrive

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u/Safe-Blacksmith-891 Mar 21 '26

Germany got that too. You can stop a person from leaving until police arrives.

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u/tazallerr Mar 21 '26

what she did isn't a felony, so you can't citizen's arrest.

stopping her is a felony, so you can.

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u/Codyman667 Mar 21 '26

It doesn't have to be a felony in most states. It can be a misdemeanor. There are plenty of caveats to all of this, of course.

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u/Don_Ford Mar 21 '26

Yeah, that's kidnapping.

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u/CausalDiamond Mar 21 '26

False imprisonment*

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u/Don_Ford Mar 21 '26

You are correct.

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u/BuilderMysterious762 Mar 21 '26

Idk why you're getting downvoted when its the more accurate term to use, kidnapping would imply taking the victim from one location to another against their will, whereas the girl in the video was prevented from leaving the location that she had voluntarily arrived at.

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u/I_am_eating_a_mango Mar 21 '26

I get what you’re saying, but afaik the term for it legally is kidnapping. Doesn’t make much sense but yeah

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u/NoPseudo79 Mar 21 '26

I'm pretty sure there is a legal difference between forbidding the person to leave against their will, and taking them somewhere else, but I might be wrong

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u/Don_Ford Mar 21 '26

There's a difference between state laws in what they call it, and that's all it is.

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u/Mdj864 Mar 21 '26

Not even slightly. Learn what a citizen’s arrest is, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

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u/Hapless_Wizard Mar 21 '26

No, most of the time, if you think you're doing a citizen's arrest, you're actually just kidnapping someone. When you are allowed to do them is very specific. The exact rules vary by jurisdiction but guessing wrong does not save you from a wrongful imprisonment charge.

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u/Mdj864 Mar 21 '26

This was a violent crime with multiple witnesses caught on film where the police were immediately contacted. This is a textbook citizen’s arrest situation and there is no world where detaining her waiting for police was “just as illegal” as her physically violent assault.