(June 15, 2020 at 8:35 am)onlinebiker Wrote:(June 15, 2020 at 8:27 am)Little lunch Wrote: If you shoot someone in the back while they're running away, you're a murderer.
You can't kill someone to protect hostages if those hostages don't exist yet.
If I give you 10 cents change, when I should have given you twenty cents change and you blow my brains out with a gun, then we are both at fault.
Technically true, but still a stupid thing to say.
I also doubt the guy would have got shot if he hadn't gotten violent.
He seemed like a real nice guy.
1.5 seconds to make a decision?
Well, if he decided to murder in that short a time then it was probably racist act also.
A drunk just got your tazer.
How are you going to get it away from him?
What if he turns it on you?
He already overpowered you and another guy.
Is he going to use your tazer on YOU? Then take your gun?
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Too late. It took you far longer to read this than the cop was given to make a decision.
Murder requires intent.
Clearly he did not have the time to form that intent.
Not murder.
But in this case the guy got the taser and was running away, if the cop was truly in fear then why chase after the guy? The cop already had his car, his identity and had the ability to call for backup, shooting the guy should not even have been an option. As a cop if you cant deal with someone resisting arrest or trying to get away from you, without shooting them, then maybe you shouldnt be cop.
