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Originally Posted by wittynickname
So regularly, police in the US find that unarmed petty criminals are deserving of lethal force? That is the crux of my entire argument--why is it so common for officers in the US to use deadly force? If it's so rare in other countries, why is it so common here?
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The US has a multitude of problems, social classes, violent crimes and homicides are higher as are police killings. I think there is a lot of room to make your argument and I think it's a very fair one. I don't disagree in a broad sense.
But we're also talking about a singular event where we don't have enough information to say that the officer was or was not justified in shooting a large teenager. I'm not pro-gun, if anything I'm anti, but I am high on self-defense. If, and that's a key word, the officer was afraid for his life while being charged by a much bigger man who had already tried to grab his weapon, I would not be against him defending himself anyway possible. Again,
if that was the case but we haven't even really heard from the officer what his story is. And you're right, he could just be a trigger happy police officer. I don't dispute that's a possibility either.