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Originally Posted by Armistead
A lot can be learned in the Sterling shooting. First, he was once again carrying an illegal gun, being he was a felon with numerous charges, assaults, domestic abuse, robberies of occupied dwelling, drugs, weapon charges, child sexual offender....and guess what....resisting arrest.
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It is common tactics after a policeman shoots yet another person for their apologists to dig up as much crap about the deceased as possible.
Here's perhaps a better line. If that had not been a cop but say a private citizen trying to citizen arrest that guy. Based on your understanding of the events, how likely would such a citizen be able to get himself off a prison sentence using the usual defenses?
And if he won't be able to, how much extra slack should we give a cop? And why should we give them said slack, when if anything they should be more prepared to take a non-lethal solution than a regular citizen but ultimately did not?