#174: Good Samaritan or Vigilante?

Send us a textToday we are talking about a recent trend that we’ve noticed where armed civilians are intervening in situations that would normally be handled by the police. In the episode we bring up examples that show the benefit of this type of intervention as well as examples that demonstrate how it can go catastrophically wrong. During the discussion we talk about some of the legal ramifications of these types of interventions and we get into topics like liability, preclusion, and causati...