[RecallMoran]

This is getting off topic, but if you are interested, here is the story:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/13/AR2006061301550.html

The evidence was compelling and overwhelming that the officer tried to get out of the wasy, the driver changed directions and increased speed, and hte officer shot when he got backed up against a car with the driver hurtling toward him.

THe only relevance that incident has to the Duke rape hoax is that on one side you have consistent facts, and overwhelming physical and eyewitness evidence, and on the other you have shifting stories changing as new evidence emerges, and not a scrap of credible evidence to back up the allegations.

[JLS]

Here is an editorial:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/02/AR2006030201678.html

that sides more with muawiyah than RecallMoran on this. It certainly smells of a police whitewash to me. I certainly do not believe that we need police officers on duty or off killing young people in the streets.

The off-duty guy had a duty in the law to retreat if he could. You can use deadly force but not if it is not needed. Sounds to me like Man1, but I don't know Va law. I am tempted to ask what the race of the victim and the race of the perp were since the two things I have looked at so far don't picture either. Makes on wonder?