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Another shot dead by Mpls police
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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1591657" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>The law does not (and should not) allow for "errors in judgement" regardless of the ever popular "what a reasonable police officer would do" rationalization.</p><p>Dead, is dead no matter what. </p><p></p><p>No punishment for erroneously taking a life is a very poor deterrent for preventing someone else from doing it. </p><p></p><p>I too am a Vietnam veteran. It was stressed upon us time and again, the penalties under UCMJ for taking the lives of innocent non-combatants. I have seen police officers (and others) get away with things I would have been in front of a court martial for had I done the same thing in combat. In theory, I could have been found guilty and stood up in front of a firing squad had I killed a non-combatant female while in RVN if it was premeditated...any other level of offense of the same nature could result in prison in Portsmouth up to life without parole under Art 118.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1591657, member: 18945"] The law does not (and should not) allow for "errors in judgement" regardless of the ever popular "what a reasonable police officer would do" rationalization. Dead, is dead no matter what. No punishment for erroneously taking a life is a very poor deterrent for preventing someone else from doing it. I too am a Vietnam veteran. It was stressed upon us time and again, the penalties under UCMJ for taking the lives of innocent non-combatants. I have seen police officers (and others) get away with things I would have been in front of a court martial for had I done the same thing in combat. In theory, I could have been found guilty and stood up in front of a firing squad had I killed a non-combatant female while in RVN if it was premeditated...any other level of offense of the same nature could result in prison in Portsmouth up to life without parole under Art 118. [/QUOTE]
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