Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle
Wielding baseball bats and sticks, a mob in northwest Houston today chased down a man suspected of preying on neighborhood children in recent weeks.
"We know him. The whole neighborhood knows him," said Carlos Gonzalez.
Cops.
While nobody was hurt during Sunday's pursuit, officers said citizens shouldn't take the law into their own hands.
"You need to call law enforcement and let us handle that," said Houston police officer S.A. Burk.
B.S. The law is about punishing wrongdoers. It can't protect anybody (it's just words), and the Supreme Court has said that it's not the duty of police to protect any particular individual. The police don't even have a monopoly on arresting wrongdoers. I'm sure citizen's arrests are legal in Texas.
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