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Ahmaud Arbery's killing puts a spotlight on the blurred blue line of citizen's arrest laws

  • Written by Seth W. Stoughton, Associate Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
Ahmaud Arbery's killing puts a spotlight on the blurred blue line of citizen's arrest lawsGregory and Travis McMichael who killed Ahmaud Arbery during an attempted citizen's arrest.Glynn County Detention Center via AP

The killing of an unarmed black jogger by white residents who assumed he was up to no good is shocking, but it should come as no surprise.

If anything, Ahmaud Arbery’s death in Georgia on Feb. 23 was predictable: the...

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