People seriously expect the police to wait until someone draws a gun before they shoot?
@adambanksdotcom There was a gun. He threw it out of the taxi just before they shot him. Pretty reasonable grounds to suspect he was armed.
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@bazzacollins Question that needs answering is what was he meant to do? How could outcome have been improved? -
@adambanksdotcom Outcome could have been improved if he didn't carry a gun. Jury clearly not buying the eyewitness account. -
@bazzacollins You’re saying is once police knew he had a gun they went expecting to have to kill him whatever happened. That’s execution. -
@adambanksdotcom No, I'm arguing that police shouldn't have to put their own lives at risk before shooting an armed suspect. -
@bazzacollins We’re told police put their lives on the line every day for public protection. Not shooting unless you’re sure is exactly that -
@adambanksdotcom It's simply unreasonable to expect police to give armed suspects an opportunity to shoot them before they fire weapons. -
@bazzacollins I don’t understand what you mean in practice. Once they believe you have a gun, they just kill you? If not then what? -
@adambanksdotcom Police should do everything possible to remove threat without killing suspect. Sometimes that's not possible.
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@bazzacollins The only eyewitness account says he deliberately threw the gun away then surrendered, arms in air. OK to shoot then? -
@adambanksdotcom@bazzacollins that's presuming the only eyewitness was credible -
@richcreedy@bazzacollins Yes, tbf of course I’m not assuming that. Then again we *know* police account isn’t credible because it was wrong.
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