NewsVine_Mariyam
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Have you ever heard the saying "The penalty for disobedience is not death?" Our laws do not allow even police officers to summarily execute people for "disobedience", there must be a threat present and the threat must be eminent and of a nature that any other "reasonable" person would feel threatened under the same set or similar circumstances. That's why as you rightfully pointed out, it's hard to claim that a person is being threatened by someone who is running away or trying to get away and attempting to just that as justification for shooting them in the back.Show me where I bring race into it. Do that. And then we will look at the circumstances.
I would have shot Michael Brown if I had been the cop. I would have indicted, if I had been on the grand jury, the cop who murdered the man running away from him, shooting him eight times in the back.
When you see the police on the news after a shooting they have been trained to state "I was in fear for my life" because that is the LEGAL threshold that must be met in order to pursue a self-defense claim.