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> On Jul 10, 2020, at 1:05 PM, Cassidy B. Larson <c...@infowest.com> 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>
>> 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> 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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