(July 21, 2016 at 6:17 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(July 21, 2016 at 6:08 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: Also just to note, in the recent crisis at the night club in Florida, I would not call the decision to shoot the perpetrator a "summary execution" for a "capital offense". It's not within their authority to make that judgment. However they are permitted to use lethal force to protect others and themselves. Which is sometimes going to be a quick and difficult decision (and yes mistakes may be made).
I don't think anyone sane is going to criticize the police for taking out a guy who is in the act of hosing down a crowd with weapons fire.
There's quite a bit of difference between that and shooting some poor fuck who is complying and then letting him bleed out without rendering first aid, for a traffic stop, no less.
C'mon, get real. The bolded above is not what we're talking about and I suspect you know that.
I think that there are two different conversations going on here... the original general conversation, and then this incident which was linked to, in which the man was clearly complying with the officers, and trying to care for the mentally handicapped boy. I agree, (even though I think discharging the firearm was not intentional) that the whole thing was wrong on many levels. I do think that from what I read, you are mistaken in classifying it as just a traffic stop however.
Not much was given in the story about the extent of his injury, or what happened afterwards when he said he was bleeding on the road. My inclination is similar to yours, but with not much details, I don't just assume mal intent
