Adam Bercovici, a former 30-year police officer in Los Angeles, disagreed, saying officers could be justified in shooting Bailey, even if he didn’t have a gun. If he had committed an armed crime, “an officer could be justified in using force in stopping them from escaping into the community.”
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Tennessee v. Garner in 1985 that an officer can use deadly force to prevent a suspect from escaping only if the officer believes the suspect poses a significant threat of death or severe physical injury to the officer or others.
Former police Officer John Bruzek, who later became a lawyer, said he would want to know the distance between the officers and Bailey and whether the police had other means of force, such as a Taser.
Bailey was shot near Adams Park, which is next to Adams Elementary School.
Here's the problem. Cops just have way too many "outs" when it comes to using deadly force. It's nearly impossible for them to be charged because of it. Now granted lawyers could argue that because the suspect was previously charged on suspicion of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust they could then claim he was a threat, but that's pretty specious imho. Did they actually know of it at the time and I'm not sure a previous arrest could be used as an argument for force in an unrelated incident.
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The standard for Deadly Force used to be very high. It was a LAST RESORT. Now it is pretty much shoot whenever you feel like it.
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Here's the problem. Cops just have way too many "outs" when it comes to using deadly force. It's nearly impossible for them to be charged because of it.
I was gonna say, video doesn't mean **** and unfortunately body cams haven't fixed much other than cases where they're too stupid to turn them off while blatantly planting drugs on people. Even the best case scenario where the DA does decide to charge someone and take it to trial, a halfway decent defense lawyer can get at least one racist on the jury.
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My wife and I have been house shopping for a little over a month now; searching houses in Sterling Heights, GrandRapids, Hudsonville, and Muskegon. Today we were looking at a house in Holton that we both agreed would be perfect, so we meet our realtor to see the house it’s beautiful. As we are walking to the house I’m seeing confederate flags on the walls the dining room table and even the garage. I’m thinking to myself as a joke I’m walking to the imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan‘s house right now.
Wait.
Sterling Heights, Grand Rapids, Hudsonville, Muskegon, and Holton?
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