Uncensored2008
Libertarian Radical
How is it murder?What the law says is that you can't shoot someone just for pointing a weapon.
If police can legally shoot a civilian for pointing a weapon, than any civilian could then legal shoot police when they point a weapon.
Police can NOT have superior authority to anyone else, because it is the inherent rights of all individual that is the ONLY source of ANY authority at all in a democratic republic.
The mistake is to believe that since government has authority and hire the police, that then police are a higher authority than average people.
That is not at all true in a democratic republic.
The reality is that since the public create government, then government is below the people.
And then since government hires the police, the police then are 2 steps lower than the population as a whole.
Since police also are average citizens, they do then also have the same right of defense as anyone, but no more.
They have no more right or authority to pull the trigger than anyone does.
The risks they face is why they are paid more.
They can't then start shooting people because they no longer want to accept the risk they choose to take money for.
What police SHOULD do is not to shoot, but to take cover.
They should be acting defensively, just like everyone else.
They do not get the right to murder people so that they can just stand there in the open and pretend it was not their fault for getting into a risky situation.
Let's meet you bring your toy gun I'll bring my real one. But I don't know yours is a toy. You can rest assured you will get shot if you even start to point it at me. Police are not required to get shot first then react. Citizens do not have the "right" to disobey the law, ( which includes pointing deadly weapons at LE)no matter how ignorant you are about it. Ignorance is no defense! So I guess you are just ignorant and defenseless! Where we meeting?
Perhaps you should watch the body cam video.
This was a straight up murder.
Fullerton Police Release Body-Camera Footage of Hannah Williams Shooting | OC Weekly
He gets out of the car and shoots and unarmed girl without a word? What other term can be used? He executed her for hitting his car, which isn't even his....