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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 have lived and worked in Louisiana. If this goes to a Grand Jury, which I doubt, the grand jury will give them a hero medal and ask them out for dinner.
Thank God they do not live in Massachusetts.
Another example of the media mischaracterizing what happened. Rescuing someone from a crime is not "taking justice into their own hands." Taking justice into their own hands would be, for example, capturing the criminal and then punishing them instead of handing them over to the police.
In this case people searching for a kidnapped woman found her and the kidnapper, and apparently stopped a murder in progress. They immediately summoned police, who were also searching within walking distance. See the article by Ms. Westbrook for a detailed description of what happened, along with photos and video from the scene.
I forgot to add that “he was a good boy, would never hurt anyone, had turned his life around and wanted to be a doctor.
/sarcasm.
That woman is not black.
Credit for killing criminals should be a post-racial editorial.
In parts of Louisiana, you can’t determine race by skin color. It’s a mixture of culture and legal definition. Makes for interesting situations.
Louisiana justice!
the link right above my post showed me that. Thank you. The picture in the posted article was deceptive.
When seconds count.......
A fine example of why the citizen should be armed.
Citizens are first responders, not the police.
It isn't "taking the law into their own hands," the law never left our hands. The police are under no duty to protect you. Your defense, our defense, lies 100% solely in the individual.
I think she’s attenuated in the photograph where she’s being placed in the SUV because of blood loss.
Look at the pictures in post 23. She is definitely part black at least, though she may be biracial.
Don’t mess with Cajuns. Doesn’t matter what color they are, screwing with a coonass’s family is a fatal idea. Good on her family taking care of business.
}:-)4
Good laws.
Police largely only serve to write tickets, write up paperwork (after the fact), and collect disability these days.
When I got robbed at gunpoint, the first officer I encountered (who was writing DWI tickets) went the other way and got the hell out of there. Within 2 days, their “every weekend” DWI taskforce disapppeared for 6 months and then barely ever returned after that.
You ARE on your own.
I hear that we need more police cameras around town. Those don’t prevent crime. No convenience store was ever “not robbed” because the crook knew that he would be videoed gunning down a clerk on camera. All it does it present SOME evidence that MAY eventually be used at a later date to prosecute a criminal who has already acted (and killed).
What color was his hoodie?
LOL. Taken 3.
I am from La. originally. The stories I have heard from the ‘old folk’ would chill your blood.
They don’t play down there.
“In parts of Louisiana, you can’t determine race by skin color. It’s a mixture of culture and legal definition. Makes for interesting situations...”
Isn’t that what “Creole” is?
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