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To: Enchante
We don’t know but I’m more willing to wait for a thorough investigation.

What could possibly justify shooting an unarmed, fleeing suspect?

42 posted on 07/31/2016 4:17:22 AM PDT by Lower Deck
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To: Lower Deck

damnit you don’t know that he was “fleeing” at the moment he was shot. All we are told is it happened behind a house. He might have been cornered, he might have tried to ambush the officer, he might have been trying to get the officer’s gun.

You want to assume the worst of the police without all the facts. We know we have a dead perp who was a vicious violent criminal. We don’t yet know all the details of what happened behind that house.

and no, I don’t trust “Chief Moose” the politically correct Affirmative Action hire to do an honest job here. The political pressures on the CHicago PD (and so many other depts) are tremendous now. Far too easy to hang some officers.....


46 posted on 07/31/2016 4:26:13 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: Lower Deck

You seem to make what seems IMHO an unwarranted assumption. You state that having fled the car the perp was unarmed. At what point does a fleeing perp who was armed become unarmed? How are the police supposed to know this?


62 posted on 07/31/2016 5:54:35 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Lower Deck

By your logic, if the recent Dallas cop killer had laid down his weapons and was fleeing, the cops couldn’t shoot him.


63 posted on 07/31/2016 5:54:41 AM PDT by Hiro Protaginast
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To: Lower Deck
What could possibly justify shooting an unarmed, fleeing suspect?

I remember when "Stop or I will shoot" actually meant something, now it is just a prompt to run.

94 posted on 07/31/2016 8:32:31 AM PDT by itsahoot (Trump kills PC--Hillary kills USA--Pick one.)
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