Thanas wrote:Upon checking the law, the officer has in question has the choice of firing a warning shot or shouting a verbal warning. The law does not describe what a warning shot is. I bet internal police procedures do, nay I am quite certain of it, but I don't have those at hand.
In justifiable circumstances we don't even have to give a verbal warning before using deadly force. An example would be coming up behind an active shooter.
Like I said in my previous post, the same is true for the german police officer.
Kamakazie Sith wrote:
Thanas wrote:The policy works for now. What will you, and other say the day it doesn't work and someone is killed, or even wounded, by a ricochet? Sounds like a tragedy in the making...
I think the very small risk of that happening is acceptable. In fact, from 1996-2006 not a single innocent bystander was killed, with only 7 people wounded. That is for all of Germany.
How many innocent bystanders were killed or wounded by american police in that time period for comparison?
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salm wrote:
The same thing we´re going to say as we would if a cop shot a kid because the kid was carrying a replica. Actually there have been reports that cops almost shot kids playing with bbguns. Had the shooting policy been a bit laxer they might be dead. You´ve got a point, too, of course. There are up- and downsides to both methods.
The difference I think would be that when you're firing a warning shot your life isn't in immediately danger, and thus the utilization of a deadly force tool is not justified. When a police officer kills a kid who is carrying a BBGun that kid was taking action that made the officer feel like his/her life was in danger.
