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Expanded citizen's arrest powers to be announced (www.rnz.co.nz)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So a vigilante system with government encouragement.

This will not end well, retail workers are not police!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Doesn't have to be retail. The law says any criminal code being broken. You could arrest people for all kinds of things, for example public drunkenness.