Reply to a comment  Reply to this comment  oldnuke69 writes:  in
response to willposey:  The deputy did protect his wife by
neutralizing the threat. He showed laudable restraint by not
shooting the idiot.  His arrest of this person was a citizen's
arrest, so he committed no out-of-jurisdiction offense.  If he
had shot the guy, he would have been merely protecting his wife,
who was the victim of an assault.  I hadn't thought of a
citizen's arrest. I don't think he could have pulled the guy
over and then shot him in defense of his wife. However, had the
guy kept shooting and the deputy fired while that was happening,
it certainly would have been in defense of his wife.