I never said he could be hunted down and executed. You are the one injecting hyperbole here. Along with everyone else. The issue at hand was that Ahmaud had a felony history of burglarizing houses and stores while pretending to be a jogger. The neighborhood KNEW who he was and had actually given him a nickname for it called "the jogger." George McMichael while he was previously working the case on Ahmaud would have history and knowledge to all this.
Every place in the US and most freedom based countries, allow common citizens to affect a "citizen arrest" to varying degrees. For example, if you feel someone trying to reach into your pocket to steal your wallet and then you grab their arm to stop them. That is a citizen arrest. Defining how a citizen arrest has to be carried out is what allows for problems with the legal system. The fact is, citizens in most countries can affect an arrest for a crime they know of. In Georgia, this includes crimes reported to them as they are happening like in the example in the video I posted where the guy talks about a theft at a Win Dixie and the ruling there where the crime was reported to the employees to handle. If you tell an employee at a store that you witness someone stealing something while they are still in the store, that person can affect an arrest. That is legal everywhere in the US. The point I was making, especially with the video, is trying to focus on what the real issues at hand were. The prosecution at this point is trying to prove that Travis getting out of his vehicle with a gun in hand escalated the situation to make that a criminal aggravated assault since the weapon was pointed in the general direction of Ahmaud. If the prosecution can prove that, then it makes it then easier to tack on felony murder charges. The only way the prosecution is going to be able to do that is by proving intent on behalf of Travis that he was intending by getting out to use the gun in the first place regardless. Meaning that Travis had the intent to harm Ahmaud there regardless of Ahmaud's actions up to that point. On a side note, the idea of felony murder charges when you can't prove murder is stupid in various legal systems, but it is there for Georgia still.
The case at this point isn't that the McMichael's have a right to affect a citizens arrest on Ahmaud. The case is about HOW they went about it. That is how it is playing out in court now. Personally, from a legal standpoint I don't see the prosecution at this point winning on any charge. Still, as I have stated before, I don't think what Travis did to step out of the vehicle was the right thing to do. They had him contained, knew the cops would be there soon enough, and Travis knew he could have been easily arrested later even if Ahmaud managed to slip away from them. Again, he was a KNOWN entity. That is why I find the action of Travis to be a complete block head move. I understand that it could have been an adrenaline and heat of the moment thing for him to step out of the vehicle to personally confront Ahmaud. Still, I think he was an idiot for doing so. Just because one is in the heat of the moment it doesn't excuse bad decisions.
With the evidence presented thus far, I am still saying that legally nothing is going to happen to the McMichaels in this case in terms of criminal charges sticking.