Personal feeling is that unless they present a clear immediate danger to
someone in the immediate vicinity, deadly force is unjustified.
On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 11:48 AM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think every situation is different. I also believe the police, in
> general, have been given more slack than they should for quite some time.
> The issue is how to deal with this. I do not envy cops. I have a nephew who
> is a cop, and I worry about him all the time.
>
> One of the more recent cases was an individual who was resisting arrest.
> He grabbed, and fired a taser. As I understand it, most tasers are
> one-and-done. IOW, once the taser has been fired, the only "weapon"
> characteristics it has are as a thrown projectile. That individual was
> running away, and was shot in the back. Was that justified? I would have a
> hard time accepting that as a justified homicide. But that is only one
> example.
>
> With the proliferation of cameras everywhere, this sort of thing is going
> to come up more and more.
>
>
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
>
> On 7/10/2020 9:32 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
>
> I am largely ignorant of the issues faced in world of law enforcement.
> And perhaps this is a broader philosophical question with no clear answers.
>
> A guy, alone at night, in a city, near the location of a reported armed
> robbery is confronted by cops, takes off running.
> He drops what appears to be a gun, picks it up and keeps running, should
> he be shot?
>
> I understand that he may take a hostage or start shooting or whatever. He
> may turn the gun on the cops.
> I remember old cop and robber movies when I was a kid where the cop would
> yell “stop or I’ll shoot”.
>
> We had the above situation happen here in Utah a while back. Cops were
> found to have done no wrong.
> People are understandably upset.
> A few years ago, a young man playing with a sword was stopped by cops, he
> took off running with the sword and they shot and killed him.
> I presume the same justifications apply.
>
> I wonder how often someone with a weapon does harm after evading the cops.
> I wonder how other countries confront the same problem.
> If a human gets scared and runs due to uncontrolled fear, should they be
> shot?
>
> I was only truly scared once in my life. Was in a bank robbery.
> I understand that your rational thinking goes out the window a bit when
> you are really scared.
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