“every single person who runs is an equal threat and therefore deserving of being shot?”
Please don’t stoop to such nonsense.
However, every single person who runs is at that time in the commission of a felony.
well don’t be an idiot and imply by your statement that there’s no problem here with what the SECURITY GUARD (not COP at htis point) did. Both sides are responsible for escalating this to a situation where a guy got shot for looking into a store window that has bicycles there precisely to be viewed through the store windows. That is what it boils down to.
Now if the guy had a crowbar in his hand while looking in the window, or pulled out a gun, or made some kind of finger-across-the-throat gesture to the security guard, I think it makes it entirely different.
You don’t chase someone down like you know he’s a thief for looking in a window. And then get him in an alley and shoot him. The guard’s playing cop caused this situation to end like it did. The guy LOOKED into a window of a shop that has bicycles hanging and on display.
The security guard acted like he was a cop and had the same chase and arrest powers. The guy was trying to leave and he had not committed any crimes. He hunted the guy down.
This is not the same as Zimmerman.