[Ben Mugged]

Interesting how you can come to this conclusion with so little evidence. Attempted murder means the deputy planned this in advance. I guess he could have been sitting at the side of the road thinking "the next Corvette that comes by at 100mph I'm going to chase it down and shoot the passenger".

[Smogger]

Since when does attempted murder require premeditation? Maybe your thinking of first degree murder, which only requires about 10 seconds to become premeditated.

[HairOfTheDog]

Interesting how you can come to this conclusion with so little evidence. Attempted murder means the deputy planned this in advance. I guess he could have been sitting at the side of the road thinking "the next Corvette that comes by at 100mph I'm going to chase it down and shoot the passenger".

Actually, premeditation does not mean a complicated plan, only a plan to commit murder, even seconds ahead of time. Telling the man to get up, knowing it'd look more like a self defense if he was getting up, could be argued as premeditation.

[Red Badger]

....the deputy planned this in advance.

We had a guy here in FT. Walton convicted of pre-meditated murder for making the decision to kill a person just walking from one end of a mobile home to the other. "Advance" can be a very short time.............

[HEY4QDEMS]

Premeditation only requires a few seconds.

PS Don't you think you should credit Aaron Brown for your tag line?

[badbass]

Interesting how you can come to this conclusion with so little evidence. Attempted murder means the deputy planned this in advance. I guess he could have been sitting at the side of the road thinking "the next Corvette that comes by at 100mph I'm going to chase it down and shoot the passenger".

Wrong. Attempted murder means that he attempted to murder the man. If you can honestly defend what this deputy did, then you are hopeless. I'm not anti-cop by any means. They do a necessary and very difficult job. But I've also seen some of the "good ole' boy" behaviour that some percentage of them can engage in. This incident was captured on videotape. Not all of them are. Power corrupts; cops aren't exempt from this univeral truth just because they're cops.

[John Robertson]

"Attempted murder means the deputy planned this in advance."

Actually, that is not the legal definition. And charges in this area are often the call of the DA--how much force, circumstances, etc. Aggrraveted assault, after all, can be construed as attempted murder. For what it's worth, this incident probazbly could pass the legal standard for such a charge...but it would be highly unlikely for a DA to bring it.

Just a complicated way of saying, You're wrong.

[OKIEDOC]

Ben Mugged wrote:
I guess he could have been sitting at the side of the road thinking "the next Corvette that comes by at 100mph I'm going to chase it down and shoot the passenger".

REPLY:

That sounds as plausible as any excuse cops use to kill or maim their prey, err, victim, err perp.........

Until robots take over their will always be the human element to police brutality.

When did it become OK to shoot to kill just because someone didn't instantly obey an insane cops command.