# Shot while cuffed and prone - justification?

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**Created:** [January 7, 2009, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shot-while-cuffed-and-prone-justification/480234 "2009-01-07T16:53:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shot-while-cuffed-and-prone-justification/480234/97 "2009-01-08T04:05:43Z")

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> [@mlees](#):
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> One guy. On the _internet_. 😕

In this thread, yeah, but in more general terms you can always count on the radio screamers, Freepers, etc. to defend the cops to their last breath.

Finding ways to villify the victim and paint him as a desperate psychopath is always SOP.

I will admit that there ocasional overreactions in the other direction as well, though.

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