The second most infuriating thing about the GA banning citizens arrest was the blatant lying about citizens arrests laws by every commentator I saw.
Did you know these laws are racist, and were invented to oppress blacks?
That is the only explanation of these laws the media gave.
Citizens arrest laws are a part of English common law, and go back to ancient times, long before the existence of a police force. When a bad guy was on the loose, there was a "hue and cry" and all men were required to grab their weapons and chase after the criminal... if they didn't, they were liable for damages from the crime.
Citizens arrest is also one of the foundations of Peel's Principles of Policing:
"To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence."
Everything police can do, citizens can do, because they are have all the same rights. Police can carry weapons? So can citizens. Police can arrest people? So can citizens.... because they are the same sorts of people.