Comment by kreetx
Comment by kreetx 5 days ago
One person showed up with a gun, the other tried to flee (or run over) an officer.
Comment by kreetx 5 days ago
One person showed up with a gun, the other tried to flee (or run over) an officer.
These were accidents, not court proceedings where you have weeks or months to think things over.
My prediction is that if you investigate them, then in the case where the woman was trying to drive away, the officer likely has no fault at all, as the drive may have easily be interpreted as driving towards him. On the armed protestor occasion, there might be some fault as the gun seemed to have gone off unexpectedly. But it won't be punished too hard, if at all, as the victim was actively escalating the situation.
These weren't punishments ("death sentences" as someone else called them). These were accidents where the victims themselves were (mostly) at fault.
Obviously there may be people who disagree about the facts of these cases. Trends, however, may bear more weight:
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/us-border-agents-i...
That article has a 404 link in the first paragraph, which probably used to link to this article: https://archive.is/RXVqn (https://archive.is/https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-bord...)
This is Alex Pretti more than a week before the fatal event: https://youtu.be/r0L9JUjcwo0?t=597.
I'd forgive you for thinking they were accidents if you hadn't seen the videos or heard them described to you. They were cold blooded murder.
They were not accidents. No one accidentally draws, aims a gun and shoots. If that whole sequence is accidental, that person shouldn't be in charge of a weapon.
The shooting part was the accident. Of course you draw and aim a gun if you're detaining someone who also has a gun.
Carrying a gun, or fleeing, is not punishable by death. In any decent country, of course.