Police are extensively trained _not_ to take anything but a deadly shot.
The same as when someone trespasses into your home.
On 07/10/2020 10:04 AM, Cassidy B. Larson wrote:
Is it deadly force to shoot them in the leg so they can’t keep running?
Easier to recover from a leg wound than a shot to the heart.
On Jul 10, 2020, at 10:52 AM, Carl Peterson
<cpeter...@portnetworks.com <mailto:cpeter...@portnetworks.com>> wrote:
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
<mailto: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 <mailto: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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