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To: cuban leaf

Sure it is stupid to struggle with and then run from a cop! I don’t think it deserves 5 in the back though from 25 feet or so IF, IF, IF this is all there is to this story. Now a what if: say a perp, been tased, following a struggle with a cop, took off screaming and yelling incoherently and charging towards little children, (or adults for that matter), off in the distance I think that deadly force would be warranted. The perp has just proved he is nuts, fighting with an armed cop. Within seconds he is in range of the kids, pulls a knife and kills them. Then everyone would say why didn’t the cop shoot the perp when he had the chance?! That scenario did not happen HERE though. His OWN PD has charged him with murder! They would not if there had been one iota of mitigating circumstances that they saw or have been informed of. They went for murder AS SOON as they saw the video. We will see if a lesser charge ends up being what the cop ends up getting.


124 posted on 04/08/2015 9:55:36 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: bobby.223

...charging towards little children, (or adults for that matter), off in the distance I think that deadly force would be warranted.


The argument could be made that he was. Just because they are not in plain sight, it doesn’t mean they are not behind the door of a house he is running to. And if the cop is emotionally impacted by some sort of altercation that took place before the guy got up he could actually see, in his mind’s eye, the guy going to a house and grabbing a woman and holding her hostage by knife.

Yes, that sounds far fetched, but when you are in that sort of mode, those are the kinds of thoughts that go through your mind.

But again, I’m speaking academically.


141 posted on 04/09/2015 4:43:54 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: bobby.223

Well you’re right about one thing, that didn’t happen here. This is called a straw man argument, I believe. You come up with this far fetched “it didn’t happen like this” argument and of course another choice would be made, because the circumstances are altogether different.


147 posted on 04/09/2015 6:44:27 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (Never in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason.)
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