Yes, how dare someone suggest that a child has not waived his right to breathe because they decided to run away from trouble that they caused. Do you advocate shooting a kid in the back for blowing up your mailbox with an M-80 (or today's equivalent) and running away? (I can't wait to see your shocked and disbelieving face as your are led away for your capital murder trial.)
The fun part is that you guys (Poohbah, Dane, etc) would probably agree with this, too: Let's kill everyone who uses drugs, steals property, or runs from the police. There are reasons that these are not capital offenses, folks.
Celebrating the death of another is vile (and puts you in the same category of those who celebrated when the Towers collapsed). The kid deserved some stiff penalties... not death. The police acted poorly, and forgot their training... and deserve some desk-time (at least) as a consequence for their poor action.
Uh the fact is that this "child" stole somebody's property and put innocent people in danger. If it was up to you all, before making a move cops would have to look up their every action in a manual.
Like I have said before we do not live in a perfect world and we will never get the perfect world you are clamoring for. It was the punk's decision to put other people in danger and yes the situation was tragic, but it could have been stopped if the youth had stopped.
Like I said you all(like the ACLU) let the criminal off and put all of the blame on those who are trying to protect the general populace.
My "mailbox" is actually the front entrance to my house. I tend to frown on people throwing a quarter stick of dynamite into my foyer--I might think that they intend to do me and my family serious harm. I still tend to frown on people setting off a quarter-stick of dynamite anywhere on my property, for the same reason. I might not shoot him in the back in public--but he would have a "death by misadventure" within the week. (He'd probably "score an own goal," to use the Irish Republican Army's argot.)
The fun part is that you guys (Poohbah, Dane, etc) would probably agree with this, too: Let's kill everyone who uses drugs, steals property, or runs from the police. There are reasons that these are not capital offenses, folks.
I don't advocate killing those who use drugs; they get one trip through rehab. After that, they are presumed to be dealing. I do advocate shooting dealers.
Thievery and fleeing the police are not capital offenses; however, one who engages in them is voluntarily accepting the natural consequences attached to them, which CAN include getting shot. This kid made a stupid decision. Stupidity frequently leads to death. Glory be to the genome, the natural selection, and the survival of the fittest. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, stupid bunts getting weeded out of the gene pool without end, Amen.