We can say “he had already fired” but at the scene cops don’t know that. Cops found a guy who matches some sort of description, it may or may not have been him.
Shoot first, questions later, may turn out well then but generally no that’s not how it should work. Yes cops need to take that risk.
We should come up with some process where a small, randomly representative democratic panel can be informed of the facts and then decide if he’s really the murderer.
Yeah, guy was armed and already fired.
Would you take the risk? This is one of the times where police use of deadly force is actually warranted.
We can say “he had already fired” but at the scene cops don’t know that. Cops found a guy who matches some sort of description, it may or may not have been him.
Shoot first, questions later, may turn out well then but generally no that’s not how it should work. Yes cops need to take that risk.
If it was actually the guy that did it.
We should come up with some process where a small, randomly representative democratic panel can be informed of the facts and then decide if he’s really the murderer.