Shooting at an officer from a moving vehicle would be the justification to use deadly force. You added that part that is not in the article our your own quote. Shooting would be the something other than the moving vehicle.mloamiller wrote:http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/sus ... -words-not
Not sure why this would surprise me - it's a product of "the Obama Justice Department". My favorites:
So in the case of the last one, a felon behind the wheel of a car, trying to run over a LEO and shooting at them through the window, is not justification for the LEO to shoot back?!The words "reasonable" and/or "unreasonable" appear 49 times in the 103-page consent decree.
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And who's to decide what's "appropriate"? A civilian, someone with no experience in subduing dangerous suspects, will be placed at the head of the police department's Internal Affairs division
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Officers will not discharge a firearm from or at a moving vehicle, unless use of lethal force is justified by something other than the threat from the moving vehicle;
I feel sorry for the cops in Cleveland. Next thing you know, they'll have to stop wearing uniforms and keep their guns concealed so they don't offend someone.
Although, I agree that whole part and much of the rest is ridiculous.