Re: ACLU: Ferguson police report on Michael brown's death violates law [W: 209]
Why would he supposedly be going for Wilson's gun if he already had one?
I didn't say that Brown or his friend had a gun, only that Officer Wilson had not determined that.
In 1995 the Supreme Court ruled that it was illegal for police anywhere to use their guns in a foot pursuit of a felon.
According to Ten. V. Gardner:
Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1 (1985)[1], was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that under the Fourth Amendment, when a law enforcement officer is pursuing a fleeing suspect, he or she may use deadly force to prevent escape only if the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others.
Tennessee v. Garner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I remind you that the Officer was just attacked by Brown.
Now stop turn and get running at full speed again get shot five times and drop within 35 feet of where you started... Fourty feet is too short maybe more like fifty five feet..
How long do you think it takes for a professional policeman to holster their weapon and draw their Taser?
What does it matter? It is the Officer's call. Not yours. But let's go through it. We've determined that it took me 4 seconds to cover approximately 40 feet, (and that is slow as I am a 52 year old out of shape trucker), with that in mind I'd say a cop could probably holster his gun in about 2 seconds, and pull the taser (if he had one) in about the same, so that is 4 seconds...Too late, perp is on top of him.
All cops carry Tasers it's part of the uniform equipment belt. There would be at least one more in the cruiser.
I don't know that to be true. Can you cite the Ferguson police dept. issue manifest?
Why? Because nearly everything you are putting forth is pure speculation. You are ofcourse free to do that, but don't get all butt hurt when you are wrong, and people laugh out loud at you.
I am offering my opinion and defending it on an internet site and I'm not breaking any of the rules here.
You're offering an opinion all right...and NO ONE said you were breaking any rules, if I thought you were I'd report it and let the moderation team figure it out. But, you seem to be entrenched in your own speculation to the point of dismissing facts that don't fit the vitriol you want to spew at the officer...Way too much anger to be objective.
You should be so lucky to be anything like me.
Prove to me that they are not.
Instant loss of debate...Asking me to prove a negative is weak stick, and a loser argument. I asked you to back up your claim, you obviously can't so what do you do? Just repeat the same claim as if it's fact....
like here:
Tasers are standard equipment on all police forces.
How very dishonest of you.