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To: SampleMan

The use of deadly force has to be justified, running from the cops with stolen beer is no way justified unless he was armed with a weapon and the officer feared for himself or others.

If cops shot at everyone who ran from them while being arrested for petty theft or shoplifting they would have writers cramp from filing all that paperwork they had to fill out every day.


96 posted on 08/18/2009 8:11:34 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Abathar

Good to know that deadly force is never justified for simply resisting arrest by fleeing.


109 posted on 08/18/2009 8:28:25 AM PDT by SampleMan (Socialism enslaves you & kills your soul.)
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