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Originally Posted by Pointman
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.
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It all depends on the situation.
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