Murder in the third?
You can’t shoot an unarmed person in the back, even if he had broke the law.
What the hell is wrong with some of these cops? Maybe they need to take their weapons away and just make them walk a beat with a nightstick.
Wrong.
“Where the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a threat of serious physical harm, either to the officer or to others, it is not constitutionally unreasonable to prevent escape by using deadly force. Thus, if the suspect threatens the officer with a weapon or there is probable cause to believe that he has committed a crime involving the infliction or threatened infliction of serious physical harm, deadly force may be used if necessary to prevent escape, and if, where feasible, some warning has been given.”
You guys need to read the real facts. This gangbanger had just murdered someone a short time previously.
You can, but you have to show he was likely a mortal danger to the community if allowed to run.
He was heading into a child care center.
First, the kid was a suspect in a murder case. Second, he jumped the fence into a compound of a daycare center. Third, to me, it looks like he has something in his right hand as he is running. Fourth, the suspect was known to police to carry a gun. Sorry, but if you don’t wanna get shot, don’t murder people, and don’t run from the cops when you’re trying to arrest you.
“You can’t shoot an unarmed person in the back, even if he had broke the law.”
In the 1980s, a pair of Supreme Court decisions — Tennessee v. Garner and Graham v. Connor — set up a framework for determining when deadly force by cops is reasonable.
Constitutionally, “police officers are allowed to shoot under two circumstances,” David Klinger, a University of Missouri St. Louis professor who studies use of force, said. The first circumstance is “to protect their life or the life of another innocent party” — what departments call the “defense-of-life” standard. The second circumstance is to prevent a suspect from escaping, but only if the officer has probable cause to think the suspect poses a dangerous threat to others.
This person was wanted for a homicide and running toward a day care center. The cop had every right to shoot him.
Like it or not, that is the law.
Wrong....you can IF YOU CAN PROVE your shooting was absolutely necessary and the lesser of two evils of letting the perp go, i.e. A prisoner escaping prison is unarmed. Someone who kills a cop with his own gun and then runs, someone who murders children and then runs.....THOSE people are far more dangerous if you let them go, but you HAVE TO PROVE that shooting them was absolutely necessary AND the lesser evil of letting them go.