To: xzins
My limited knowledge of case law, very limited, leads me to believe that if the cop cannot demonstrate Imminent Threat, he's a candidate for Murder II.
Anyone know otherwise?
13 posted on
08/15/2014 2:43:33 PM PDT by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: Mariner
“Anyone know otherwise? “
I really don’t know,but in Holder’s America you can “perceive” injury so maybe you can perceive being in imminent danger and not have to prove anything at all.
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19 posted on
08/15/2014 2:51:27 PM PDT by
Mears
To: Mariner
According to case law a cop can shoot a fleeing suspect if they believe they pose a serious threat to others.
Granted that is debatable. But on the cops side of it we have a huge six four 300 pound 18 year old who could probably kill someone with his hands who just attacked a cop (and quite possibly tried to take his weapon to shoot him with it)
21 posted on
08/15/2014 2:57:26 PM PDT by
Cubs Fan
(If you're on the same side of Ferguson as Al and Jesse, then you F-ed up somewhere. Rethink it dummy)
To: Mariner
That’s pretty much how I read it. Guy could have been a serial killer, but if the cop is not in grave danger at the moment he pulls the trigger he is in the wrong.
27 posted on
08/15/2014 3:29:11 PM PDT by
CrazyIvan
(I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
To: Mariner
My limited knowledge of case law, very limited, leads me to believe that if the cop cannot demonstrate Imminent Threat, he's a candidate for Murder II. Correct. This talk of 'he robbed the store' and 'he didn't rob the store is meaningless. Cops can't execute people for that.
35 posted on
08/15/2014 3:44:45 PM PDT by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: Mariner
My limited knowledge of case law, very limited, leads me to believe that if the cop cannot demonstrate Imminent Threat, he's a candidate for Murder II.
Are you attempting to apply this to this case?
You know nothing about law and (like the rest of us) know nothing about the truth in this case.
I suggest you wait until all the facts are made public before hanging the cop.
41 posted on
08/15/2014 3:55:37 PM PDT by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Mariner
My limited knowledge of case law, very limited, leads me to believe that if the cop cannot demonstrate Imminent Threat, he's a candidate for Murder II.
A 300 pound man can certainly be considered an "imminent threat", depending upon how he is acting. Most adult males would be in grave and mortal danger if such an individual attacked them, especially if they were "out of control". So it all depends upon how he was acting. A police officer is not obligated to simply stand there and die, in order to appease the race hustlers, the useful idiots, and the free-stuff-now crowd.
43 posted on
08/15/2014 3:59:19 PM PDT by
jjsheridan5
(Remember Mississippi -- leave the GOP plantation)
To: Mariner
Cop doesn’t have to demonstrate crap. The State has to prove, beyond doubt, that he committed murder.
/johnny
To: Mariner
He robbed the store and assaulted the proprietor, he assaulted a cop. That makes him a felon. When he fled he became a fleeing felon who, in all likelihood, would assault anyone who got in his way.
80 posted on
08/15/2014 5:17:34 PM PDT by
Brad from Tennessee
(A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
To: Mariner
To: Mariner
93 posted on
08/15/2014 8:16:28 PM PDT by
BuckeyeTexan
(There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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