[MeganC]

“If an officer shoots an unarmed perp running from the scene of the crime and it turns out to be your innocent brother, and it is considered approved police procedure to do that, the problem is not the cop.”

‘Following orders’ is also not an excuse.

>> Befehl ist Befehl <<

[cuban leaf]

‘Following orders’ is also not an excuse.

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That applies to knowingly harming innocents. That’s not what I’m talking about. If it is official police proceedure to shoot to kill anyone running from the scene of a crime and a cop does that, the only way a cop is culpable is if he knew full well the person was completely innocent but shot him anyway for sport, or because he was sleeping with his wife, or any other reason like that.

Our men who dropped bombs in Vietnam or in Germany KNEW they were killing innocents and “just following orders”. They could because the innocents were “collateral damage”.