SCOTUS Rules on Police Shooting...and Sotomayor's Scathing Dissent

Townhall.com ^ | April 3, 2018 | Cortney O'Brien

[caww]

......”she ignored calls from three police officers to drop her weapon, which she held while standing within six feet of her roommate”......

That’s a clear and present danger.....especially since she’ was a loon to begin with.

[caww]

....” Deadly force should only be used when there is a credible threat to someone’s safety... I’m not seeing that here”...

Six feet away from the other gal waving her knife and continuing making threats....., refusing to disarm after three attempts/refusing to do so. Time for her to go down.

[caww]

If my kid was in that situation, with a barrier between me and the threat of my child on the other side...I’d dang sure fire...esepcially when she refused to drop the weapon.

[enumerated]

Do you know what lethal means?

[shelterguy]

I would consider getting shot in the ass four times by a cop to be lethal force.

[VietVet876]

Nothing like a mentally ill female with an edged weapon. She should thank God she is still alive. Glad I’m not a cop.

[jeffersondem]

“Nothing like a mentally ill female with an edged weapon.”

A mentally ill female with a nuclear arsenal would be much worse.

Yet in 2016 our nation almost voted to . . . oh, forget it.

[enumerated]

It doesn’t matter what you consider a word to mean. The definition of words are agreed upon by those of us who use the English language, and conveniently organized in alphabetical order in a special book known as a dictionary.

Your opinions are worthless if you invent your own private meanings for the words you use to express them.

“Lethal” means ‘sufficient to cause death’.

[zeugma]

Like a blind squirrel, even liberal digbats occasionally get things right. The dissent is more reasonable than the opinion itself in my not so humble opinion. The entire concept of "qualified immunity" has become far too broad over the past many years. This officer should have been required to face a jury of his peers, just like I would, had I shot someone under questionable circumstances.

I'm sure the small contingent of bootlickers are out upthread to link arms in solidarity in their support of the police state against the citizens. It's as predictable as the rising sun.

[zeugma]

You guys want a good mental exercise to gauge whether or not one of these police shootings is OK? Just ask yourself, what if a private citizen had done the shooting. Would that private citizen be absolved equally? Would that private citizen’s actions be seen as justified by the courts? If the answer is no, then we have a a problem. If anything, cops should be held to a higher standard since they are agents of the government AND they walk around armed to the teeth with an army at their beck and call.

Absolutely. The JBT cheerleading contingent on FR don't believe citizens have a right to live if a cop thinks otherwise.

[Elsie]

I am against the idea that a cop can execute someone because they are scared.

Will you give yourself the freedom to kill another if you fear for your life?

[Elsie]

I don’t know why you give the cops free reign to execute people but then again I don’t understand the liberal mind

Or simple English; either.

[Elsie]

The cop was saying he/she fired in defense of the other woman.

It appears that shelterguy would just let the knifeless woman worry about her own safety.

[Elsie]

It’s a gel now, unaffected by the wind.

Really...

[shelterguy]

I don’t fear for my life when I see the neighbor on the other side of the fence chopping at a tree with a steak knife.
Maybe it scares you, I don’t know.

[Elsie]

If a regular citizen would be expected to handle a particular situation without shooting,

Good luck finding a 'regular citizen'!

[zeugma]

We have eight members of the court agreeing including liberal justices and one dissenter....I'm guess the dissenter might be a little off on this one!!!

You might want to amend that count. From the first line of the dissent...

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE GINSBURG joins, dissenting.

Both these libtards are normally batshit crazy, but in this case not. The problem is, that the pendulum has swung so far on the side of immunity for police, that the rest of the court didn't even think this case was exceptional. IMO, given the facts of the case as described in the documents, this is a bad thing.

[shelterguy]

“Lethal” means ‘sufficient to cause death’.

You think a pistol is not a lethal weapon. I hope you can get some help.

[Elsie]

I’d be curious to know, not that it would matter, if the cops had Taser’s.

 

The cartridge contains a pair of electrodes and propellant for a single shot (or three shots in the X3 model) and is replaced after each use.

There are a number of cartridges designated by range, with the maximum at 35 feet (10.6 m).

Cartridges available to non-law enforcement consumers are limited to 15 feet (4.5 m).

Taser - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taser

[Elsie]

You didn’t answer the question.