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February 11, 2005
Reporting on Police Shootings
Jack Dunphy has an article today about the shooting death of a 13 year old "unarmed" boy in Los Angeles who tried to drive over a police officer. As Dunphy points out, "Press descriptions of Brown as being "unarmed" overlook the fact that he was aiming a 2,000-pound car at a cop." Dunphy also points out that Brown committed three different felonies that night.
Some are proposing that police policy should be changed: "That shooting prompted Bratton to announce last March that the department should create new rules on when officers can shoot at moving vehicles. Bratton said such a policy should prohibit officers from shooting "unless the officer or other person are threatened by deadly force, other than the moving vehicle," according to The Times."
So the solution to people ignoring police officers instructions and trying to kill police officers is to not let police officers defend themselves. Under this proposed policy a police officer would not be allowed to shoot at someone trying to run over a group of small children. The sad part is that all of these problems would end if the drivers stopped trying to run people over and instead followed police instructions. But that must be too much to expect of criminals.
Posted by Pete at February 11, 2005 03:18 PM
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