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fearing for their personal safety

Oops, that's the legal standard for cops to shoot your dog, not people.

12 posted on 05/21/2014 8:10:03 AM PDT by Reeses
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To: Reeses

There is something wrong with a system that trains cops to both forthrightly insert themselves into dodgy situations, and also shoot if they fear for their personal safety. It’s a recipe for murder. “I got into his face, and then I subsequently feared for my personal safety, therefore, I shot and killed him.” “Good shoot.” Meanwhile, the standard for the peasants is they have to all but prove six ways from Sunday that they were in imminent fear of death, couldn’t escape, and had no other options. I wish we didn’t have a caste system and that the same standard applied to cops that applies to us peasants.


21 posted on 05/21/2014 8:20:04 AM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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