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Man am I glad you're not a lawyer or a judge.
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...and im glad you're not an english teacher. I'm sorry, but your limited definition of "vigilante justice" is
wrong. If he set the jewels back on the counter, what crime has he committed? He picked up jewelry, walked two steps to the left, and came back to the counter.
Locking a presumed criminal inside a building is ILLEGAL - unless they're commiting a felony. I had two weeks of training as a security guard years back, and one of the topics was unlawful arrest/detain. It is ILLEGAL for any citizen (and even a liscened security guard) to impede another's movement unless they've witnessed the comission of a felony. That's what POLICE are for. Check out any law-book for your state if you're legitimately interested and not just countering everything I say. Look up "citizen's arrest" or "lawful arrest."
And YES, it's vigilante justice. Just because you can come up with one example does not make it mutually exclusive to the other.
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Man beats wife.
Brother of woman shoots husband in the face.
He took the law into his own hands and sentenced the husband to death.
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Man steals jewelry.
Owner of store imprisons man.
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He took the law into his own hands and "sentenced" the jewel thief to imprisonment.
He doesn't have any legal right to do so.
EDIT: Just did my own research, and it appears that in the UK under the PCEA of 1984 a citizen can make a "private person's arrest" for any arrestable offense, of which burglary is included. So, apparently this was legal in the UK (the source video) -- but certainly not in the United States of America.
EDIT x 2: Apparently legal in Canada, as well. So I'll deign that point to you, Carn. However, none of the 50 states (I just looked) allows citizen's arrest for anything less than a felony -- and I personally think that is a good thing. DAMNED BRITS AND CANUCKS!!!