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Originally Posted by metallicat
Sorry, but if this happens:
you're getting shot. Period. You can have less lethal like a taser on scene but if someone is threatening police with a knife and they're in range to strike that is a lethal encounter and it will rightfully so be met with a lethal response.
She wasn't killed because police were there for a wellness check, she was killed because of the knife. Full stop. Now if the argument is you don't believe the police due to the current climate then I'll grant you that and we can wait for the independent investigation to take place. But if what the police say happened is actually what happened then this appears to be a good shot.
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Are Canadian cops allowed to enter apartments against the will of inhabitants when no immediate crime is happening? Can a police officer walk into a living room, shot a woman who lives there with 5 years old daughter and get acquitted because he said she was lethally threatening him with a knife? And there was no actual crime happening at the scene at the first place.
Where I come from, if you walk into someone's living room and shot the person who lives there, you go to jail no matter if you are cop and no matter what you say in your defense. If you shot an intruder, that's another story, but if you walk in and shot the person who lives there, you go to jail no matter what. There's just no defense for that. Otherwise you essentially allow policemen to kill anyone at will.