Sentences with phrase «lethal force against»

There is a need to ensure appropriate or meaningful human control or judgement over the use of force, including the use of lethal force against human targets.

In this case your own life is threatened, even though you created the situation that warranted the use of lethal force against you.

Could you reasonably mount a legal defense of lethal force against nonviolent felonies?

Am I legally able to use my own firearm to use lethal force against the officer to protect the apparently unarmed man?

How do laws that allow me to use lethal force against the general population apply when the individual I would be defending from is a police officer?

«From SWAT raids to simple calls and even visits to wrong addresses, we are seeing more and more incidents of officers using lethal force against a family pet, despite the fact that no officer has ever been killed in the line of duty by a dog,» said director Michael Ozias.

When a Staten Island grand jury refused to return a criminal indictment of an officer in the death of Eric Garner, she issued a press release declaring «the use of excessive and lethal force against people of color is a persistent problem nationwide.»

The answer is that the government does not have the right to use lethal force against it's own citizens without due process.

The document provides the Justice Department's legal rationale for the controversial policy of using lethal force against U.S. citizens fighting on behalf of terrorist groups.

Whatever it is called, it is the unlimited right to the private use of lethal force against innocent human beings.

Not exact matches

The «presumption against war» is sometimes expressed as a presumption against violence, with violence defined as any use of lethal force.

My focus was on why lethal violence is not appropriate against abortionists and their staffs, when it would be considered heroic to use force to save, for instance, infants under attack or to free concentration camp inmates.

The use of excessive and lethal police force against people of color is a persistent problem nationwide and we must recommit ourselves to building a more just city and society where all people, regardless of color, are treated equally by law enforcement.

Like the laws against homicide, anti-cruelty laws excuse intentional killing in the rare cases when harm is imminent and serious, making lethal force necessary.

A weapons system that identifies, selects and employs force against targets without meaningful human control should be considered a lethal autonomous weapons system.