To: Oliviaforever
Could you please cite the crime that Mr. Scott was convicted of sometime between the moment he ran and the moment he was shot?
Otherwise, he was not a crook.
A person does not fluctuate between crook and non-crook, between crimes. Was Jeffrey Dahmer not a criminal when he was between meals? Was John Dillinger not a criminal when he was brushing his teeth?
32 posted on
04/09/2015 11:28:04 AM PDT by
jjsheridan5
(The next Ronald Reagan will not be a Republican, but rather a former Republican)
To: jjsheridan5
Sometimes one should overlook the exact wording and take the intended point.
In this case, Scott did nothing warranting lethal force while he was fleeing, and the cop had no reason to believe Scott was a clear & present danger to the community should he escape.
35 posted on
04/09/2015 11:30:22 AM PDT by
ctdonath2
(Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
To: jjsheridan5
“A person does not fluctuate between crook and non-crook, between crimes. Was Jeffrey Dahmer not a criminal when he was between meals? Was John Dillinger not a criminal when he was brushing his teeth?”
In this country, we have a legal system and a person only be determined to be guilty of a crime after he is given Due Process.
And from what I saw, the cop doing the shooting did not provide Mr. Scott with Due Process.
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