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The moment your day, and possibly your life, takes a hard left turn.
means To seize someone by legal authority and take them into custody, or more broadly to stop something in its tracks.
from From Old French 'arester,' to stop or stay, which traces back to Latin 'ad-' (to) plus 'restare' (to remain or stand still) — literally 'to make stand.' The same root gives us 'rest' and 'arrears,' so an arrest is, at heart, a forced standstill: the law placing a hand on your shoulder and saying 'you go no further.' The medical 'cardiac arrest' borrows the same logic — the heart, too, simply stops.
- word origin
- From Latin restare, meaning to stay or remain
- cardiac twist
- Cardiac arrest means the heart stops, not handcuffs
- miranda math
- US police gave rights warnings only after 1966
- citizen power
- Ordinary people can legally arrest in many countries
- frozen frame
- Arrested also means stalled, like arrested development
arrest of julian assange — wikileaks founder arrested at ecuadorian embassy, london, april 2019
arrest of bernie madoff — ponzi scheme operator arrested december 2008, $65 billion fraud
arrest of harvey weinstein — film producer arrested may 2018 in new york on sexual assault charges