Yes but not just the employee.
In the deadly and dangerous world of university libraries where I used to work (kidding) a student assistant’s boyfriend saw a thief with a load of expensive high value books rushing out of the front doors, the tattletape alarms going full blast. He took off running after him and the two ran for a long way.
Ending: The thief fell on a sidewalk crack and broke a couple of bones. He sued the university and won a lot of money. The ruling was he wouldn’t have been injured if the guy had not been chasing him.
That’s why any business forbids their employees for pursuing a thief no matter how much the employees would like to...