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To: Sarah Barracuda

I wanted him to go to trial, and then get hung.

It is a very dangerous precedent to have cops believe they can kill without a trial. Which they may have here.


40 posted on 02/17/2013 5:04:11 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: redgolum
It is a very dangerous precedent to have cops believe they can kill without a trial. Which they may have here.

http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cjs04.htm

Federal constitutional standards permit law enforcement officers to use deadly force to apprehend criminal suspects when there is "probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a threat of serious physical harm...to the officer or to others..." and if deadly force "is necessary" to effect the apprehension.1 This formulation of the constitutional rule by the Supreme Court suggests two factors - dangerousness and necessity - as relevant to the question whether deadly force is constitutionally permissible.

58 posted on 02/17/2013 9:07:56 AM PST by Alaska Wolf (I)
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