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"In the wake of the hate-slaying of Ahmaud Arbury, and under pressure from an outraged public, the Georgia legislature agreed to change its law to allow citizen’s arrests only in the case of shopkeepers detaining suspected shoplifters.

Gov. Brian Kemp said the old law could be “used to justify rogue vigilantism.” And then he signed the bill into law.

If a vigilante law can be stripped of its fangs, in a state where both the legislature and the governor’s mansion are controlled by the Republicans, then ordinary citizens have an opening to insist on and effect changes anywhere."

https://open.substack.com/pub/thinkbigpicture/p/gop-vigilante-laws-subvert-courts?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android