If it were a perfectly justified shooting with no questions whatsoever, they wouldn’t have offered her $900,000.
Yes, but if the police don’t see a weapon on you as you are running, they can have no reasonable suspicion that you present a significant threat of death or serious bodily harm to people. At least not from the fact of your running away alone.
In this case, the guy swung the sword at the police. As confirmed by the policemen themselves and two eyewitnesses:
Asked why Hunt became violent, Buhman said investigators did “some digging” but ultimately, they don’t know. “It’s unlikely we will find out,” he said. Witnesses also noticed the rapid change in Hunt’s demeanor before he unsheathed the sword, Buhman said. Melanie Wride told investigators that she saw Hunt move his hands “like he was laughing,” and that his conversation with an officer lasted 30 to 60 seconds before he pulled a sword and swung it " ‘very hard’ at the officer who had just pulled up in the police car."
The other witness was Leonard Zogg, who saw Hunt unsheath the sword and swing it at an officer, according to a previously-released affidavit. Zogg told KUTV 2News last week that the affidavit misrepresents his statement, and that he only saw Hunt unsheath the sword, not swing it. But Buhman read aloud what he said was Zogg’s handwritten statement from Sept. 10: “The guy appeared to be laughing and smiling and then pulled out the sword and took a swipe at the interviewing officer and began to run to the northeast.”
The settlements are often a cost-analysis calculation. If they know it will cost more than $900K to defend this in court, then it is cheaper to offer a settlement, even if they would win in court if it goes there.
Cite for the bolded part? Or are you just making shit up?
Is it illegal to have a sword? Cite?
What if he’s the second coming of Jesus and the sword is to protect him from demons, but now you shot him and now all of humanity’s souls will burn in Hell? Don’t you think you will be rightly blamed for your behavior in not preventing all of humanity from being doomed to eternal suffering?
IIUC, some cities have or had code that says you are not to walk around with an 8"+ knife. You can have one, but outside the edges of your property, you might get in trouble for having one on your person. A sword is basically a knife, only bigger.
Cite for the hypothetical? No.
The legality of having a sword has nothing to do with it. See the Supreme Court decision I cited. It doesn’t depend on whether the person fleeing the police has a legal weapon on him.
Thank you.
Kamilah Brock says the New York City police sent her to a mental hospital for a hellish eight days, where she was forcefully injected with powerful drugs, essentially because they couldn’t believe a black woman owned a BMW.
Those questions came from an old book entitled, Accessing a Patient’s Mental Competency: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Soviet-style Psychiatric Care.
You could purchase it from the back of Boy’s Life–located between"Amazing X-Ray Glasses" and “Sea-Monkeys”
If that turns out to be true, those are some dumb cops. That’s a $6000 car.
Get’cher program! Get’cher program here! Can’t tell the cops from the suspects without a program!
First: You’re wrong. Even in the unlikely event the legal fees would run to $1 million, fighting in court and winning sends a very different message to potential future litigants than settling. You did know it’s about future litigation, didn’t you?
Second: It’s hypocrisy for you right-wing blowhards to offer this justification. Poor people will often plead guilty (for time served) even when innocent, rather than stay in jail. You score those innocent people as “convicted criminals.” It’s inconsistent to dismiss settlements by guilty police forces.
Settlements never include admissions of wrongdoing. Pleas are agreed to under lesser charges. So your “poor person” is still guilty. Sorry.
…so Mr Gamergate, that makes Brad Wardell guilty as charged.
“Doesn’t matter if you did it or not, you plead guilty because you’re too poor to fight it, so that MAKES you guilty”, right?
Why do we have bad police officers? We have bad citizens. Stupid and bad.
How is it possible that people can watch this video and come to different conclusions?
[Former officer Michael Slager was denied bond today; Slager is the former cop who shot and killed Walter Scott in April.
](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/4caa5cfc17a640c79f03e3d1a079f69f/ex-officer-charged-fatal-shooting-seeks-release)
Good. Lying murderous jackass.
Alabama + Brown Person
Half of them were probably trying to figure out how the old man could be charged with a crime based on what they were seeing.
Because some people actually believe that things need to be proven beyond reasonable doubt, not by what looks probable from a video where you can neither see nor hear exactly what was happening.
I ask myself the same question every time I watch that. Maybe it’s just my bias, but I think even the cop knew he’d fucked up. His glance to the camera after he threw that harmless old man to the ground just speaks volumes to me.
I would really love to hear from one of those jurists.