“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.
listen to what you're saying....it was a smart move to FIRE towards a day care center???
I don't know what kind of kid this teenager was, and he may have well been a no good gangbanger....but the "murder" he and is brother are accused of was shooting towards a car and causing an accident with the accident actually killing the occupant....
if this were a black kid, we'd never hear the end of it, but being that it was just a whitey, shooting someone in the back towards a day care center is just ho-hum.