Teen killed by bullet when LA County deputies fired at pit bull: Sheriff's office

Yahoo, Good Morning America, ^ | June 22, 2017 | MATT GUTMAN, ALEX STONE and EMILY SHAPIRO

[cpdiii]

And during those 60 years of shooting did you ever pull the trigger when you couldn't see where your round would go downrange?

No.

[Chainmail]

Then the cops were wrong.

[Chainmail]

"Me thinks some disgruntled spent time in the pokey"

Or maybe some of us expect cops to be as responsible in the use of their firearms - like maybe a Marine is, in combat.

Any idea of what would happen to a Marine who fired his weapon negligently and killed a civilian? An Article 32 investigation and them maybe a court martial, right?

[sargon]

You cannot charge a person of any walk of life with murder, manslaughter or really any other crime without mens rea, or a culpable state of mind.

What about involuntary manslaughter here? If the officer was "supposed" to be shooting a dog, and somehow the child "got in the way", that doesn't require mens rea, does it?