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minus-squareTedesche@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·5 hours agoPolice consider a moving vehicle a deadly weapon. Thus, if you’re trying to flee from them by driving, especially in an erratic manner, you’re considered to be wielding a deadly weapon and they can thereby respond with lethal force. Agree or disagree, this is the logic.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down4·4 hours agoEven calling it logic is pushing it. “Pretense”, “excuse”, or “bloodlust-induced delusion” would be more accurate. By that “logic”, they’d be justified in murdering every single motorist for at some point swerving unexpectedly.
minus-squareayyylinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 hour agoYou know that people are killed by cars, like, all the time right?
Police consider a moving vehicle a deadly weapon. Thus, if you’re trying to flee from them by driving, especially in an erratic manner, you’re considered to be wielding a deadly weapon and they can thereby respond with lethal force.
Agree or disagree, this is the logic.
Even calling it logic is pushing it.
“Pretense”, “excuse”, or “bloodlust-induced delusion” would be more accurate.
By that “logic”, they’d be justified in murdering every single motorist for at some point swerving unexpectedly.
You know that people are killed by cars, like, all the time right?