The police shoot an unarmed white guy in the back..
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OK, I'll bite.
It's just slightly different when he is an escapee from a federal prison with a life sentence for murder as opposed to a black man with NO criminal record, NO warrant, NO threat to society, etc. etc. The one that was NO threat to society is dead; the one that was a convicted felon, murderer, is still alive.
But do go on and tell us how they are the same...
It's just slightly different when he is an escapee from a federal prison with a life sentence for murder as opposed to a black man with NO criminal record, NO warrant, NO threat to society, etc. etc. The one that was NO threat to society is dead; the one that was a convicted felon, murderer, is still alive.
But do go on and tell us how they are the same...
How do you know he's white? Maybe he self-identifies as black or Asian or Hispanic.
Which one was the black man with "NO criminal record, NO warrant, NO threat to society"
I'm on vacation and haven't really been watching the news.
A black guy in Cincinnati grabs a white woman walking along the sidewalk and throws her in to oncoming traffic and then yells "He hates white people". I didn't hear that on national news, either. Wonder why?
Two convicted murderers escape from jail. You're fishing for the race card? Really?
No, we've been told that prior criminal activity doesn't matter.....and....that 'Murica now hates the police.
You always seem to be on the wrong side of things.
Section 35.30 of the state penal code says that a police officer "in the course of effecting or attempting to effect an arrest, or of preventing or attempting to prevent the escape from custody, of a person whom he or she reasonably believes to have committed an offense, may use physical force when and to the extent he or she reasonably believes such to be necessary to effect the arrest, or to prevent the escape from custody … except that deadly physical force may be used for such purposes" under specific conditions.
One of them is when "the offense committed" by the fleeing person is "a felony … involving the use or attempted use or threatened imminent use of physical force against a person" which Sweat's original crime was. Deadly force is also permitted when the person has committed "kidnapping, arson, escape in the first degree, burglary in the first degree or any attempt to commit such a crime." Escape in the first degree is what Sweat apparently committed when he broke out of prison.
http://citylimits.org/2015/06/29/was-it-legal-for-a-cop-to-shoot-david-sweat-as-he-fled/
One of them is when "the offense committed" by the fleeing person is "a felony … involving the use or attempted use or threatened imminent use of physical force against a person" which Sweat's original crime was. Deadly force is also permitted when the person has committed "kidnapping, arson, escape in the first degree, burglary in the first degree or any attempt to commit such a crime." Escape in the first degree is what Sweat apparently committed when he broke out of prison.
http://citylimits.org/2015/06/29/was-it-legal-for-a-cop-to-shoot-david-sweat-as-he-fled/
