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Cops can generally use deadly force to stop a fleeing felony suspect.
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Originally Posted by Just A Guy
Cool. Now the police can start running over shoplifters.
If the shoplifter used a gun to take the merchandise so they could make their getaway with the merchandise, then I'd be fine with the cops running them down.
If the shoplifter used a gun to take the merchandise so they could make their getaway with the merchandise, then I'd be fine with the cops running them down.
You forgot to read this part of your linked article: "Under U.S. law the fleeing felon rule was limited in 1985 to non-lethal force in most cases by Tennessee v. Garner."
...believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious bodily harm to the officer or others
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Originally Posted by MTQ3000
You forgot to read this part of your linked article: "Under U.S. law the fleeing felon rule was limited in 1985 to non-lethal force in most cases by Tennessee v. Garner."
Read two sentences further...
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Originally Posted by Justice Byron White, Tennessee v. Garner
A police officer may not seize an unarmed, nondangerous suspect by shooting him dead...however...Where the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a threat of serious physical harm, either to the officer or to others, it is not constitutionally unreasonable to prevent escape by using deadly force
The teen robbed the man with a handgun, and fled with the gun. He wasn't a "shoplifter", but an armed robber.
So yes, stop using deadly force once the teen was disarmed.
I'm on the planet where two wrongs don't make a right. Trying to KILL someone - someone who did not actually do the driver any physical harm, btw - by running him over with a car is the action of a horrible person. Two horrible people - the thief and the attempted murderer.
And I honestly don't care if anyone agrees with me.
Moon always sides with criminals. Im not surprised
The teen robbed the man with a handgun, and fled with the gun. He wasn't a "shoplifter", but an armed robber.
So yes, stop using deadly force once the teen was disarmed.
As I stated before In Michigan my friend did the same thing when he was robbed. Of course the case got dismissed or whatever because Michigan law says a person can stop a fleeling dangerous felon after they commit a crime by all means
Running him over in that circumstance would probably be ruled self-defense.
You can't chase someone down and try to kill them when they are already trying to get away, no matter what they did in the first place.
Yes you can, In Michigan!! If the person is a dangerous armed felon
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Cops can generally use deadly force to stop a fleeing felony suspect.
...believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious bodily harm to the officer or others
