The sergeant gave chase in his car and fired multiple rounds at the teens.
That's why. He pursued them down the street and fired at them as they were driving away.
By the letter of the law alone, with no favor granted towards him, it's considered murder in all 50 states. When you start adding political, racial, or sexual bias against him, it gets worse. Best he could have ever gotten was manslaughter, and considering he was intentionally shooting at them to drive them off, there's no way that would have worked.
NEVER pursue a fleeing suspect. NEVER fire at a fleeing suspect that is not actively and immediately threatening someone else's life with a lethal weapon.
And look, I believe that lethal force should be allowed for certain property crimes, but no state agrees with me, and there's no way to make this a good shoot.
Yeah. You're right. But you should be wrong. We need to un faggot our laws. The idea that someone can wrong you and then call time out just by running away is bullshit. It's like the kid who would call time out as soon as they were about to get tagged playing "it".
In fairness, such a law does not exist in the west, nor has it ever. You can not use lethal force against ordinary force.
It's fine to chase after than hold them for police in a citizen's arrest, and only use proportional physical force to restrain them. That is only not advisable because it is tactically unsound, you are likely to make a mistake, you will not have qualified immunity, and the jury will not assume that you are a good person trying to right a wrong.
In previous centuries, running away after wronging someone still involved the judge/magistrate ordering them to be found, and applying the justice system to them through court, and having their family and church not try to cover for them. The system works fine, but you have too low trust of a society.
The system is only as good as its people. And we have dumb, immoral people everywhere. Our highest institutions of learning were starts as Christian schools. They knew that without God, intelligence was hard to achieve, and that even if you managed intelligence without God you were bound to use said intelligence in unproductive ways.
They charged him with murder? Seriously? You have DAs giving gangbangers manslaughter due to mutual combat, but this guy gets murder charges?
That's why. He pursued them down the street and fired at them as they were driving away.
By the letter of the law alone, with no favor granted towards him, it's considered murder in all 50 states. When you start adding political, racial, or sexual bias against him, it gets worse. Best he could have ever gotten was manslaughter, and considering he was intentionally shooting at them to drive them off, there's no way that would have worked.
NEVER pursue a fleeing suspect. NEVER fire at a fleeing suspect that is not actively and immediately threatening someone else's life with a lethal weapon.
And look, I believe that lethal force should be allowed for certain property crimes, but no state agrees with me, and there's no way to make this a good shoot.
We used to be a real country.
Yeah. You're right. But you should be wrong. We need to un faggot our laws. The idea that someone can wrong you and then call time out just by running away is bullshit. It's like the kid who would call time out as soon as they were about to get tagged playing "it".
In fairness, such a law does not exist in the west, nor has it ever. You can not use lethal force against ordinary force.
It's fine to chase after than hold them for police in a citizen's arrest, and only use proportional physical force to restrain them. That is only not advisable because it is tactically unsound, you are likely to make a mistake, you will not have qualified immunity, and the jury will not assume that you are a good person trying to right a wrong.
In previous centuries, running away after wronging someone still involved the judge/magistrate ordering them to be found, and applying the justice system to them through court, and having their family and church not try to cover for them. The system works fine, but you have too low trust of a society.
Bullshit. We used to hang people for stealing horses.
The system is only as good as its people. And we have dumb, immoral people everywhere. Our highest institutions of learning were starts as Christian schools. They knew that without God, intelligence was hard to achieve, and that even if you managed intelligence without God you were bound to use said intelligence in unproductive ways.
You get three guesses what the teenagers looked like.