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Thread: When *can* cops legally use deadly force?

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    Quote Originally Posted by OldOwl View Post
    LOL. I thought that I coined that phrase, largest street gang in America. I remember getting a nasty PM right after that here.

    Cops can shoot you any time they can get away with it. Who's word will a judge take in a court room? Yours, or a cops? Especially if you're dead?

    NYPD cop shoots suspected motorcycle thief - WSJ.com
    Big +1 on that.





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    Quote Originally Posted by PaxMentis View Post
    The cases are apples and oranges...actually more like apples and i-beams. Name me a situation where a non police officer would have received official clearance to take a shot in the first place. And Horuchi's shot was never characterized as one of self-protection.
    You are agreeing with me, albeit unbenoast to yourself. Lon Horuchi got away with murder because he was a cop.

    Quote Originally Posted by PaxMentis View Post
    Considering the rules laid out to Horuchi (which I personally believe were just plain wrong on about 5 different levels...starting with the setting of the siege itself), it becomes a question of judgement. I believe my post (to which you responded but chose to cut that section) stated that "The difference is that the DA (and most juries) will trust a police officer's judgement...".
    And there lies the problem, Lon Horuchi's judgement was that commiting murder was ok.

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    Ruby Ridge..
    When I think about what happened there it still pisses me off even years after the fact.
    "Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice."
    -- Henry David Thoreau, 1849

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    This guy had enough in NH. Live free or die, he took it literally. He couldn't take the harassment any more.

    Cop fatally shot and then has dying body driven ov... - AOL Video
    You can run... but you'll just die tired. 3%

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