(01-22-2019, 10:03 AM)TrivialPursuit Wrote:

(01-22-2019, 09:46 AM)B2hibry Wrote: There is good and bad in every sector of society. I also don’t think it’s fair to judge and call the guy a coward. Unless you’ve filled the shoes your opinion means squat. In this situation the cop got a little less prison time than deserved but perhaps they took into account the totality of impact to his life moving forward. Either way, at least this situation got the deserving attention and was judicially addressed.

How is it not cowardice to shoot a guy in the back who was 20 feet away from any officer?

Police officers are charged with not only defending themselves but the community-at-large. Technically speaking a potential perpetrator doesn't have to demonstrate himself to be a direct threat to the police officer he can theoretically be a threat to Society at large or civilians. In this particular case you had somebody walking with a knife out down the street not a bang police command this wasn't a case where someone was unlocking their own door and drop their wallet. In this particular instance I have a hard time finding the mens rea for any type of criminal misconduct.

Police officers are given weapons by the community to protect us from threats. In the event that someone demonstrates poor judgment or even fatal judgment in the execution that particular charge then it makes sense to remove that charge not necessarily challenges him criminally for a lapse in judgment no matter how severe. The purpose of the criminal justice system is to make sure that certain accent repeat it again if you remove someone from the Force then they're not going to have to interact with suspects and make lethal snap decisions about the safety of the community at large with a potentially armed suspect. So for the longest time I have been against the idea of charging and Prosecuting police officers criminally when it can be demonstrated that however flawed their judgment was that it was based on some perception of discharge of Duty as opposed to a personal Vendetta drug deal gone wrong or some type of premeditation.

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