Posted on 11/09/2013 3:07:39 PM PST by Beave Meister
The family of a kidnapped woman in Duson, La., Bethany Arceneaux, took justice into their own hands Friday when they rescued Arceneaux from her captor, Scott Thomas, killing Thomas in the scuffle that ensued.
Arceneaux, 29, was kidnapped on Wednesday from a child-care center parking lot by Thomas, 29, the father of her son, reported The Advertiser. Their two-year-old son was in her car at the time, and was not harmed.
Arceneaux’s family received a tip that she was being kept in an abandoned house nearby. As law enforcement had not yet acted, a half dozen family members assembled at the house and kicked down the door. They said they did not know what they would find.
They found Arceneaux, bloody but alive, and Thomas. In the confrontation between Arceneaux’s family and Thomas, guns were fired and Thomas was fatally shot.
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I love a happy ending.
This is how justice began. Maybe we should go back to it.
Alrighty then!
in Massachusetts, the media would be reporting that the dead kidnapper had recently turned his life around and was attending community college at night. friends say he kept to himself and could be seen feeding hungry birds.
meanwhile, the da and ag say they are investigating whether to file murder charges while advising they do not recommend citizens take justice in their own hands.
I wonder if Holder will even consider civil rights charges against the family - considering all involved were black ...
If the family had been white ...
Hell yea!
Wanna bet the heroes get prosecuted?
Can’t have folks taking the law into their own hands you know.
Roll Tide, tonight at least.
Bethany (kidnapped victim) doesn’t look black, from the pic at link. The man carrying her to the car does look black. Not sure...just going by the pic.
Leslie Westbrook: Photographing Bethany Arceneaux rescue a surprising, emotional experience
It was a black family..... See links I posted above that have photos etc.
In the rest of the US this could invoke some very old law.
Typically posse comitatus (as opposed to the federal Posse Comitatus Act), amounts to a county Sheriff ordering the formation of a civilian posse for a local emergency or to face escaped prisoners, or when a crime is committed.
However, even before posse comitatus in Common Law there exists a doctrine of “Hue and Cry”, in which any citizen can muster other citizens for emergency purposes. The Louisiana equivalent may be called “Criez la Peez” or “Crie de Pais”.
This is speculative, because Louisiana law is very peculiar. However, I don’t think that even a bold prosecutor would hold this against the woman’s family. A jury certainly wouldn’t.
Nice story. And not exactly unusual. I recall another story in Louisiana a few years back in which a family discovered someone had molested one of their children. They grabbed the perv, took him out to a cane field and pretty much flayed him alive with a bullwhip.
Lived in only two states in my life, TX and LA, and although TX has the more, ahem, harda** reputation, you REALLY don’t want to try anything crazy and cross folks in Louisiana. You’ll wind up dead, and both the cops and the DA’s will just chuckle over your corpse. One of the reasons I actually love Louisiana.
The main thing is that she's okay. Thank you, Lord.
Ironic point about a jury: if the DA blows it and indicts one of the family members, that defendant better pray for an all white jury composed entirely of Republican CCW permit holders.
There were no police forces in early America.
Nor in pre-America. Ever wonder, without prisons, how native Americans meted out justice when it was necessary?
Bingo! This case also shatters the FALSE notion of ‘FIRST RESPONDER’ being the police.
Indeed. When someone shouts “Stop, thief!” it is a hue & cry.
Hard to believe that piece of paper didn't protect her. /s
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