Trump Reveals His Next Move on Ashli Babbitt’s Case – Time for Justice (VIDEO)
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Do you know what was in the backpack? I certainly don't. Seldom has a backpack been a personnel weapon. No trigger. No ammo. You are the first one I have encountered who is arguing he had to kill her because of the backpack.
Well, yeah, if you took another path that stayed away from a homicidal cop, your odds of being alive would be greater. What does that prove? Being in the wrong place is not a death sentence.
You are just fishing for rationale. You want to excuse a cop from making what, at best, would have been a mortal blunder, when it was more properly a violation of his training. Why do you suppose he has been kept beneath the table, all this while? Because his actions cannot withstand close scrutiny.
You have a mob of people smashing your windows at your house and one trying to crawl through the smashed window. You going to protect your family or let them in?
Hold them at gunpoint. Boy, you are really trying hard. You don't care if that cop had shot someone in the crowd, who just happened to be there. Police have more demanding standards of behavior and how & when to use deadly force. Homes are recognized as private property (intruders not welcomed, except by deadly force).
I suspect the reason you are trying so hard is because you identify with the cop and are trying to arrive at some kind of rationale that would make it other than homicide. But hey, if you are good with homicide, just own up to it.
Police can use deadly force only when they have a reasonable belief that the subject poses an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to themselves or others, and not solely to prevent a fleeing suspect's escape.
Fails the test, doesn't it? And they are obliged not to shoot when there is a crowd in the background. And it is legitimate for a cop to fatally shoot someone...to prevent them from doing serious physical injury to themself? ("Don't hurt yourself---or I will shoot you dead!") Are you even listening to yourself? Generally, it is bad practice to shoot a fleeing suspect.