The same question comes up with high speed police chases, which too often end up with innocent bystanders hurt or even killed. There was one about a month ago in Chicago, totally innocent mother was killed by police car in pursuit.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-editorial-lori-lightfoot-police-chase-deaths-20200609-ueeunuyhgbgq3gfh3wn23xpz2q-story.html From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of James Howard Sent: Friday, July 10, 2020 12:14 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Might be political - trigger warning I would think you would be scared if you were robbing a bank…… From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com> Sent: Friday, July 10, 2020 11:32 AM To: af@af.afmug.com <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> Subject: [AFMUG] OT Might be political - trigger warning 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. _____ Total Control Panel Login <https://asp.reflexion.net/login?domain=litewire.net> To: ja...@litewire.net <https://asp.reflexion.net/address-properties?aID=242260993&domain=litewire.net> From: af-boun...@af.afmug.com <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> You received this message because the domain afmug.com is on your allow list.
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