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This is exactly why the youth run feral and the people will not bother
getting involved. What did the thick pig think he was doing arresting a
man who was willing to make a stand? I said when I was 15 this country
was going down the slippery slop of a police state and they laughed at
me. Wonder if they are still laughing? In fact I wonder how much
longer we'll be allowed to laugh at this country?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/8048807.stm

Man arrested for citizen's arrest

A man who tried to carry out a citizen's arrest on youths who he said
were attempting to break into allotment sheds was himself arrested by
police.

Phil Hennessey, 44, was arrested in Medway on suspicion of assault and
carrying a weapon, and bailed until July. He spent a night in custody.

He said he didn't expect to be detained and the incident had left him
worried.

Det Insp Andy Pritchard said: "If there is an allegation of crime, we
are duty-bound to investigate."

Mr Hennessey, who works at Chatham docks, said he chased the youngsters
away from his allotment in Gillingham and tried to arrest one of them.

If I'm down here alone with my son and they turn up, what am I supposed
to do?
Phil Hennessey

He said he was trying to protect his property.

Mr Hennessey, who has a nine-year-old son, said: "It frightened the life
out of me.

"I wasn't expecting to be arrested. I was expecting the guys that we
chased to be arrested.

"It's worried me. If I'm down here alone with my son and they turn up,
what am I supposed to do?"

Det Insp Andy Pritchard said: "We've received quite a number of
allegations from quite a large number of people stating there is a
serious allegation here of assault and the carrying of a weapon."

He said police procedure was to make an arrest and speak to the person
as a suspect and then take into account what they say in interview.

He added: "We aren't going to discriminate on the basis of the age of
the person reporting."

And he said actions taken in defence of property had to be reasonable.

"If it exceeds that mark, we have to consider that as a criminal
offence," he said.

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