“Thanks to Floyd, we’ve seen a violent felon’s death from drug overdose send four cops to prison for multiple decades each, while sending their families into bankruptcy. Putting a civilian down who turned out not to be an assassin could have catastrophic personal consequences. Qualified immunity is not a theoretical issue to a police sniper, given the generally lethal or catastrophically injurious nature of what they are tasked with doing.”
It is my understanding (which may not be correct) that Floyd was unarmed and that Chauvin was seen by the jury to have impeded his rescue by a woman who might have been able to save him.
Black Lives Matter people know that when a member of the public clearly has a gun and might be able to kill an officer, that member of the public might quickly be shot.
My former landlady had a friend whose boyfriend was shot dead by police in Virginia because he was coming down stairs at least a dozen feet away with a knife.
[Black Lives Matter people know that when a member of the public clearly has a gun and might be able to kill an officer, that member of the public might quickly be shot.
My former landlady had a friend whose boyfriend was shot dead by police in Virginia because he was coming down stairs at least a dozen feet away with a knife.]