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> making the use of non-deadly force (a TASER is not considered deadly force), lawful. Your use of 'lawful' is a weasel word. You are trying to have it both w
by gerbilly 9y ago
> making the use of non-deadly force (a TASER is not considered deadly force), lawful.
Your use of 'lawful' is a weasel word.
You are trying to have it both ways.
Trying to slur the dead young man as a 'vandal' and a criminal (I don't think graffiti is a felony in most jurisdictions) but then insisting that the news article should have been objective.
You yourself are not being objective. You used an emotionally loaded term, but then in your subsequent arguments are insisting on defending it by logic alone, when you know your comment was meant to have an emotional impact.
- balls187 9y agoYour biases are clouding your ability to reason. It was Lawful because the officer was justified in using non-lethal force to apprehend a suspect who was evading arrest. The intent of using a taser is to incapacitate with non-lethal force. For Israel, the combination of shock exacerbated a health condition that caused him to go into cardiac arrest. Calling him a vandal balances out the emotional impact of referring to him only as a "recent highschool grad, and aspiring teacher."
- gerbilly 9y agoWhen someone so young dies for nothing the first thing that comes to my mind is to feel, not to reason.