Polishprince
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Then maybe he should be shouting his intentions because as the situation changes, he's supposed to be able to change his actions accordingly, not follow up shooting and killing someone unnecessary simply because he wants to save face. This is exactly that aforementioned lack of integrity that I brought up. Determining what to do, not according to what is lawful, reasonable and right, but instead on how likely one is to get away with said act or being concerned with "how will it look"?My statement implies no such thing, what's tripping you up is your inability to correctly interpret what I said.No, that's not my logic, that's your fucked up "logic"By your logic then a cop could not risk killing someone they are trying to arrest unless that person is committing a capital crime.
So basically they could only attempt to arrest people who commit first degree murder, and then only in States with the death penalty.
Your statement implies what I described.
There's no need to complicate the matter, lethal force in defense of one's life or the lives of others is what defines the lawful use of force even for cops. Shooting someone in the back who's fleeing because they have outstanding warrants for failing to pay child support doesn't warrant killing someone over yet far too many law enforcement officers have no problem at all immediatley escalating the situation because they erroneously believe that being a cop in America allows them to lawfully brutalize and kill their fellow human beings, even when the subject poses no actual threat to them except perhaps in the cop's own mind.
If a police officer hollers at a fleeing criminal, "stop or I'll shoot", he loses credibility if the criminal doesn't stop and he doesn't shoot.
The credibility of the police force is important.
So I take it you're not familiar with the fleeing felon rule? Don't worry you're not alone as many cops are apparently oblivious to it as well
Abstract: In its decision, the Court held that apprehension by the use of deadly force is a seizure subject to the reasonableness requirement of the fourth amendment, and that its use to prevent the escape of all felony suspects was constitutionally impermissible. The proper rule, as the court suggests, would allow the use of deadly force only when a suspect poses a substantial risk of serious physical harm. However, a major problem with the decision is that it requires a police office to be practically certain that a suspect is dangerous without providing any guidance to the arresting officer for making this determination. A better approach would be to emphasize the risk encountered by the officer in a specific situation, but also to allow the officer to be guided by the nature of the crime involved. This approach would limit the use of deadly force to inherently dangerous situations, while also providing the protection needed to the arresting officer and the general public. 121 footnotes.In other words, taking off because the cops recognize you and you don't want to go to jail because you have warrants out or for whatever reason is worlds apart from a fleeing felon who just robbed a bank and shot the security officer and a couple of bank customers although some cops want to treat them both as the same level of threat requiring shooting the subject in the back and killing them.
That is what is so disturbing about so many of you, that you don't see any difference between the two situations. And/or you just don't care that there is a difference.
When the guys went in to pinch Osama Ladin, Obama ordered that Ladin be shot. And Ladin was shot.
Why do you give Obama a pass, while you don't with others?