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Originally Posted by Bent Wookie
Why do you guys always pick out one sentence or word to discredit someones post.
You ALL know what he means....
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Why do you assume you this sentence is taken out of context to discredit his post?
He has already used the label 'criminal' before on this board, and in defence wrote the following:
"Yes, that doesn't show that I said or think that people who are charged with an offence are automatically guilty. I said that most people who commit violent crimes, have already been found guilty of a different offence....hence....they are convicted criminals."
This dead, tasered guy was not charged nor seemed to have committed any violent crime, so I was just curious as to why jolinar is pulling out the 'criminal' label again when he says he reserves it only for those assumed to have prior criminal records.
I am not taking the sentence out of context to discredit his post, I am trying to reconcile his choice of words in light of an earlier comment he made. Thank you for being so presumptuous though, and also thank you for bringing up CC s. 26:
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26. Every one who is authorized by law to use force is criminally responsible for any excess thereof according to the nature and quality of the act that constitutes the excess."
I guess if it can be proven that the use of force was excessive to the act, that would make the cop the criminal. But I can't suggest this was the case, because, like you, I don't know the full story, and, unlike you, I don't like to be presumptuous.