11-03-2021, 05:38 PM
(11-03-2021, 05:23 PM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: So if I kill someone in public. And civilian bystanders come to stop me. I am allowed to kill them too with no consequences and shouldn’t even be charged with anything and this situation shouldn’t even make it to the court room according to you.
You'll need to provide far more details for this to be answered accurately. Your scenario, as bare bones as it is, lacks several key elements contained within this case. Did you "kill someone in public" because you were defending your life? When civilian bystanders "come to stop" you do they strike you in the head and shoulder area with a skateboard while another brandishes a handgun at you? These are rather pertinent questions.
Quote:What is proper escalation if you see someone gunned down and the perp fleeing the scene with a rifle in their hands? Do nothing and look the other way?
Be what every single law enforcement officer will tell you in such a situation be a good witness (i.e. commit as many details of the incident to memory as possible) and call the police so they can handle it. Now, if Kyle had continued shooting people at random instead of trying to flee the area and get to safety then you'd have legal grounds to intervene with lethal force. But Kyle running away from the mob does not constitute an immediate threat to anyone. As I stated before, it's amazing how much these anti-cop protestors desperately want to be cops (look no further than the CHOP/Chaz for several examples).
If the second two people had followed this common sense advice neither would have been shot and the only person who would have killed that night would have been the guy who initiated the entire encounter in the first place.
