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Scared Cops Are Scary The acquittal of the officer who killed Daniel Shaver illustrates a double standard in judging self-defense claims.
Jacob Sullum | December 13, 2017
The jurors who acquitted Philip Brailsford of second-degree murder last week were told to judge him based on "how a reasonable officer would act, versus a regular person with no police training," as The Arizona Republic put it. That distinction was crucial, because a "regular person" would never get away with shooting an unarmed man who was crawling on the floor, sobbing, and begging for his life.
Like other recent cases in which jurors failed to hold police officers accountable for the unnecessary use of deadly force, Brailsford's acquittal shows that cops benefit from a double standard. Unlike ordinary citizens, they can kill with impunity as long as they say they were afraid, whether or not their fear was justified.
Daniel Shaver got drunk and did something stupid. But he did not deserve or need to die for it...
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun... Let your gun, therefore, be the constant companion of your walks." Thomas Jefferson, 1785.
Read "War is a Racket" by MG Smedly Butler,USMC. He was awarded the Medal of Honor twice. http://warisaracket.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Henry Kissinger said, "Military Men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in Foreign Policy" and has not denied this quote to this day.
The attempts of the LAPD and Torrance PD to kill Emma Hernandez, Margie Carranza and David Perdue are proof positive that there's a double standard.
In order to lawfully use deadly force, a citizen must be in immediate and REASONABLE fear of great bodily harm or death. If you shoot blindly into the dark because you heard a "noise", you will be prosecuted.
In order to "lawfully" use deadly force, a cop just has to be "afraid". If a cop shoots blindly into the dark because he hears a "noise", he will be defended, and even PRAISED by some.
The cops who shot Emma Hernandez weren't even arrested, much less charged. To date, there's no evidence that they were even punished administratively.
Life comes at you fast. Be prepared to shoot it in the head when it does.
The widow of an unarmed Texas man fatally shot by police outside his suburban Phoenix hotel room in 2016 has agreed to settle her wrongful death lawsuit.
A notice of settlement filed Tuesday in federal court in Arizona shows that Laney Sweet, the wife of Daniel Shaver, and her two children will receive $8 million from the city of Mesa.
“It’s not that we don’t have enough scoundrels to curse; it’s that we don’t have enough good men to curse them.”–G.K. Chesterton-Illustrated London News, 3-14-1908
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"Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams to Mass Militia 10-11-1798
Not really relevant to the article but to the title; years ago myself and two friends, all Marine Corps sargents, we’re forced over to the side of the road by four police cars whiling driving past a gas station that had apparently been robbed just minutes before. We were heading home to the next town over on a four lane highway.
When you have 4 to 6 policeman screaming “ hands up “ and pointing their guns inches from your head and shaking so bad your afraid their guns are going to go off, you realize how scared cops can be. Scared cops are definitely scary !!