[Sirius Lee]

here’s the problem with just letting him go. he’s running toward a pawnshop and other retail businesses.

So the solution is to start launching bullets in the direction of those retail businesses? Take out a shopper with a stray bullet or two?

[Reverend Wright]

“So the solution is to start launching bullets in the direction of those retail businesses? Take out a shopper with a stray bullet or two?”

i agree it’s a risk. but if you let him get into the parking, and then try to stop him when he carjacks a family in their car, that’s more risky.

“A seminal 1985 Supreme Court case, Tennessee vs. Garner, held that the police may not shoot at a fleeing person unless the officer reasonably believes that the individual poses a significant physical danger to the officer or others in the community.”

so that’s what the standard is. i read a lot of lawyers blogs and comment sites yesterday, and it was divided. some quite liberal ones argued that juries give wide latitude to police and they could easily see an acquittal. others said no way.

[chemical_boy]

If Scott had Slagers taser he could take hostages since the taser could be still used in stun-drive mode