I love a happy ending.
This is how justice began. Maybe we should go back to it.
Alrighty then!
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!
Leslie Westbrook: Photographing Bethany Arceneaux rescue a surprising, emotional experience
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.
Hard to believe that piece of paper didn't protect her. /s
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.
Louisiana justice!
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.
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).
LOL. Taken 3.
Hurrah.
If somebody had my sister I would go in there and kill them without even thinking about it. Good for them.
Brothers, uncles, cousins and neighbors.Men and women who acted, and will deal with the “government” later.
Prayers sent for her full recovery, and prayers also for her family and friends.