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In reply to the discussion: Cop Who Allegedly Said ‘We Don’t Have Time For This’ Before Shooting Schizophrenic Teen Dead Has Bee [View all]rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)That's a logical fallacy. The police and DA's wont prosecute police unless forced to by public opinion.
I could build a large list of cases where police are not warranted to shoot.
Not long ago in Seattle a homeless Native American wood carver was crossing the street and whittling a piece of wood. A policeman jumped out of his car and confronted the man at gun point demanding the homeless man put down the knife. The homeless man was mystified and clearly didnt understand. Boom and he is dead by multiple shots.
Two ladies were driving a pickup truck that was the same color (not the same model) as some fugitives and without warning the police fired like 100 shots into the pickup truck.
A mentally ill man was up in a tree and would not come down. Bang, they shot him.
A young man tried to out run the cops over a traffic violation and they killed him.
The cops busted into the wrong house and when a man moved wrong, bing-bang-boom, he was shot dead.
Parents called the police because their mentally ill son was being belligerent. When the cops got there they told the parents to stay downstairs and they went up stairs and shot the son.
The list is endless. Basically there is no punishment for police when they kill, unless there is a major public outcry.