[jackv]

Sounds like the old "stop on the name of the law" we used to hear on tv.
That means you get shot if you don't follow the order given by police.
Duh.

[Cboldt]

Sounds like the old "stop on the name of the law" we used to hear on tv.
That means you get shot if you don't follow the order given by police.

SCOTUS got involved, and invalidated the police policy to shoot fleeing burglars. But get this, O'Connor dissented ;-)

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in early 1985 that the Tennessee statute and department policy violated Fourth Amendment protections, setting a precedent forbidding the use of deadly force by police except in certain circumstances. Justice Byron White wrote the majoritys decision.

Three justices, including Sandra Day OConnor and the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, dissented, arguing the officer had to shoot in order to prevent Garners escape.