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In america, are you allowed to shoot a police officer who is violating your rights?
by 8note 5y ago
In america, are you allowed to shoot a police officer who is violating your rights?
- NoImmatureAdHom 5y agoIt's always retrospective, of course, because whether you are "allowed" will be determined in court afterwards. The answer is sometimes yes. Usually you're only allowed to kill, or attempt to kill people when your or someone else's life is immediately at risk.
- armenarmen 5y agohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2014/02/10/some-justice-in-texas-the-raid-on-henry-magee/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2014/02/10/s...
- clipradiowallet 5y agoNo...because no matter what the reality is, you will be painted as a criminal, and charged/convicted as such. It's more likely there is no charge/conviction step, and instead you will be murdered by another police officer under a false pretext of a "firefight". The story that we all hear will not reflect reality; you will take the truth to your grave.
- Throwawayaerlei 5y agoYes; it usually doesn't end well, and as NoImmatureAdHom notes the rights violation has to rise to the level at which lethal force is justified in self-defense, but it does happen and people get cleared of the inevitable charges, that's happened in my home town although the shooting did not kill the officer. And armenarmen's link doesn't include the case where black grandmother was killed in her dwelling, that didn't end well for the police.
- mmmpop 5y agoIn America you can do anything you want because you're presumed innocent until proven guilty... in theory at least. Times are a changin'.
- agensaequivocum 5y agoYes! > In December, a jury in Corpus Christi, Tex., acquitted a 48-year-old man who spent 664 days in jail after being charged with attempted capital murder for wounding three SWAT officers during a no-knock raid that targeted his nephew. The jury concluded that the man, Ray Rosas, did not know whom he was firing at through a blinded window. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/18/us/forced-entry-warrant-drug-raid.html?smid=pl-share https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/18/us/forced-ent...
- TheCoelacanth 5y agoSpending nearly two years in jail is not what I would describe as "allowed".
- klyrs 5y agoSo, he served a two-year sentence. Now do Breonna Taylor.
- Rebelgecko 5y agoHow can be be sentenced for the crime if he was acquitted?
- splintercell 5y agoBreonna Taylor wasn’t charged in court and persecuted (technically it was her bf who was shooting back). Irrespective of whether her death was legal or not, The question was simply about the legality. Kenneth Walker, boyfriend of Breonna Taylor, was never prosecuted.
- klyrs 5y agoYes, the charges were eventually dropped, but Walker spent a couple of months in jail. Taylor's killing was an extrajudicial execution, as her murderers weren't charged. Walker can't sue the cops, thanks to qualified immunity, but the cop he shot is suing him.
- betwixthewires 5y agoThere are numerous examples of this happening, a couple mentioned in responses to you, but in Indiana I know that a law was passed a few hears ago (with quite a bit of protest from police unions) saying basically that you can treat a cop as an armed intruder if he forcibly enters your house without a warrant.