Turley, being a liberal, is no joke and about as fair as they come. Much, much, exponentially better than Dershowitz. Sometimes when I listen to him I have to remind myself that he is a liberal.
Every cop in the United States operates under 2 rules to use Deadly Force, although the language might be different, it’s all the same:
1. Ability...does the person have the ability to cause death or serious physical harm to me or a 3rd person
2. Opportunity....are they in reasonable proximity to do the above
3. Jeopardy .... do their actions demonstrate that they are about to try to cause death or serious physical injury....if they’re holding an ax, yelling that they’re going to kill me but are 50 yards away, nothing can be done. If they start charging while raising the axe, scenario changes.
There are some carve outs to these rules when it comes to protecting property and any criminal activity/vandalism. That property is going to involve critical infrastructure, a nuke facility, things like a fuel farm, military equipment, etc. But, in those cases, the bad guy would have had to got past quite a few different levels of security that would show clear intent.
Absolutely NONE of that existed that day. NONE OF IT. NOT ONE BIT OF IT.
capitol police policy is if at allpossible give a warningbefore using deadly force..he had plenty of time