Originally Posted by
docsherm
Up until 1985 a few states had fleeing felon laws that allowed officers to use deadly force to apprehended any fleeing felon - even non-violent ones. By the time the SCOTUS decided the case of Tennessee v. Garner in 1985 most larger agencies and most states had adopted more stringent standards.
Today before an officer can use lethal force to apprehend someone trying to defeat an arrest by resistance or escape, the officer has to reasonably believe that they are faced with a force likely to cause death or great bodily harm, or have probable cause to believe the person has committed a crime involving the infliction, or threatened infliction of serious physical harm, or is using a weapon to facilitate escape and will be a continued threat unless arrested without delay.
So the police, in many cases must be more cerebral and restrained than citizens when using force. Probably as it should be in a Nation of Law.
Regarding your link - well, Texas. Need I say more.
Last edited by 26 Inf; 08-13-18 at 20:32.
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