Reply #4: Maybe I'm just being picky but

[droidamus2]

I think when most people hear the word 'assassinate' they think of this definition "to murder (a usually prominent person) by sudden or secret attack often for political reasons". So to try to set up what I see as a false comparison (not saying what the police did was right or wrong) by using the word 'assassinate' to connect the two situation is weak. Again not a fan of police shooting people but there is a big difference between confronting somebody with a rifle in the middle of the woods where it could be seen as reasonable you would be in fear for your life and dropping a drone on somebody that in the area of the world was apparently prominent and when the attack definitely has political overtones. Would I have liked to see both mean captured and tried? Absolutely. Are the two situations comparable? I don't really think so.