Sentences with phrase «using deadly force»

When using deadly force, you are using extreme force to stop someone doing something, which may result in getting that person killed, but killing isn't the point, stopping whatever he is doing is.
I classify such as the nerd equivalent of «using deadly force on intruders in an unoccupied property», Katko v. Briney, 183 N.W. 2d 657 (Iowa 1971), AKA man - traps.
Unlike in the original game, you can actually reach Watch Dogs 2's finale without once using deadly force.
Krasinski is in many ways cast somewhat against type as he's largely thought of as simply «that nice guy on The Office», thus making his turn as a survivalist capable of using deadly force, something of a shocker.
Most people with a religion feel the need to prosthelytize and many believe that eating meat is morally wrong, just like some religions believe that certain forms of birth control are morally wrong to the point of using deadly force against them.
«Any time you can avoid using deadly force is a good thing,» he said.
This is especially important in that law enforcement officers often find themselves in a position of having to resort to using deadly force in an effort to protect and save lives.
Police officers should not be allowed to create dangerous situations that leave them with no choice but to use deadly force.
«No reasonable officer — knowing, seeing and hearing what Officer Yanez did at the time — would have used deadly force under these circumstances,» Ramsey County Attorney John Choi said in a statement announcing the charges.
Cops come TM says» I was coming back from store [shows his skittles], he was following me, I got scared, confronted him, saw he had a gun, used deadly force because I feared that my life was in danger» Again the defense would only have to show resonable doubt.
He had no means of further retreat, and he didn't deliberately use deadly force, he simply punched her... once.
This was exceedingly rare: While Charlotte police used deadly force in at least a dozen instances in the past five years alone, this was the first time in more than 30 years that an officer was charged for killing someone in the line of duty.
A police officer is only supposed to use deadly force...
The report concluded that police had legal justification to use deadly force as Hernandez - Rossy fled police because they believed — mistakenly — that he had a gun and had shot one of the officers in the ear.
It was proved that the officer had the right to use deadly force when Brown was charging at him, yet people still use it as an example of unjustified police violence; for example in this article (but there are others as well).
A police officer is only supposed to use deadly force when the life of the officer or of a civilian is in danger.
The limitation in the executive order has raised questions among some district attorneys and others about whether the governor's order should have been written to give Schneiderman broader authority to intervene in any case where police use deadly force, whether or not someone dies.
«Within the armed forces we have a set of procedures that are open, known for how you make decisions about when to use deadly force or not, levels of approval degrees of proof and so on and they are things that can be and should be openly put out.
If you don't like guns, forget about it: FBI special agents must be armed at all times while on duty, and they are required to use deadly force «should circumstances dictate.»
When the news is told to us, all we hear about is the perpetrator's name, where the event took place, what the police claim is the reason they had to use deadly force, and perhaps some details of the so - called criminal's rap sheet.
I would get them on camera and call the law or take my car by force a thief is a thief and if they touched me at all I would use deadly force.
Wow some would interpret that as a threat to use deadly force.
If you are allowed to use deadly force in a situtation, do you really think you are not allowed to forceably stop a motorist and appropriate their vehicle in certain situations?
I would not use deadly force on a mere trespasser.
And where I live, it does not have to be my property to enable me to use deadly force in the defense of myself or others.
In short, in many states, if you are in your home and an intruder unlawfully tries to enter to attack you, you can use deadly force to defend yourself while in the sanctity of your «castle.»
A victim may also use deadly force against a criminal who attempts to force a person out of her vehicle or home.
''... a person may use deadly force against someone who unlawfully and forcefully enters a person's home or vehicle.
Most recently, the state of Indiana has taken the castle doctrine even one step further, becoming the first state to specifically permit its residents to use deadly force in response to the «unlawful intrusion by another individual or a public servant.»
It is less clear under the law of these states the circumstances under which an intervener can use deadly force against a police official to aid a third party...
Section 35 -41-3-2 provides, in essence, that an intervener may come to the aid of the perceived victim of unlawful police aggression and may, under certain circumstances, use deadly force to protect a third party, even a stranger, from excessive police force...
A police officer can use deadly force to effectuate an arrest based on a reasonable belief that a suspect has committed a felony involving the risk of physical harm or death to others (murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, rape or burglary) or if there is substantial risk that the suspect was dangerous to the point that he may cause serious physical harm or death to someone if the arrest were delayed.
It can be legal to use deadly force to resist unlawful arrest.
Also this week: A judge says voters will decide the future of Washington's law on prosecuting police who use deadly force, Governor Inslee proclaims on HBO that Washington state has «the best weed in the United States,» and Alaska Airlines says no more goats or frogs — but maybe pigs — allowed on its flights.
In the example you give, the person being held hostage could have used deadly force to defend themselves and, therefore, a third party can use deadly force defending that person.
What you are sometimes authorized to do, is to use deadly force.
In most states, you can defend yourself and use deadly force, such as a firearm, if a person enters your house with the intent to commit a burglary, robbery, sexual attack or assault.

Not exact matches

But whether Tasers are truly reducing law enforcement's use of deadly force remains questionable in a nation where 20 percent of arrests entail some use of force.
And Florida has embraced «Stand Your Ground» laws that protect the use of deadly force in public.
And it raises a number of compelling issues for those who care about the moral use of deadly force.
They rip apart the traditional understanding of the legitimate use of deadly force in self - defense and invite people to kill.
Elsewhere in the developing tradition limits were set on how such justified force might be used: certain classes of persons were normally to be treated as noncombatants and not to be harmed directly and intentionally in their persons or property, and lists were made of weapons not to be used because of their indiscriminate or especially deadly effect.
A disturbing new investigation from the United Nations (UN) and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), and first reported by Reuters, has determined that Syrian government forces used deadly chlorine gas during attacks on its civilians.
Society's standard (as embodied in the law) is: NOBODY should be physically attacking ANYBODY under any circumstances, and if attacked physically, you can use anything up to (but not including) deadly force (unless deadly force is used by the attacker first) to defend yourself.
The deadly use of force against people of color has been a near - weekly occurrence in America, sparking a decade of protest, city - by - city.
The army and navy in all honesty we did not know he held a 3rd dan black belt in sho rea, he had been trained in air born and air assault and nuclear weapons and their security on trident submarines so when somebody attacked him or use a weapon to intimidate him he considered only one option, deadly force had just been authorized.
The criteria for the use of deadly force are the same as in the current law.
«I will be voting to give the president of the United States the authority to use force — if necessary — to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.»
While many district attorneys opposed the law, Schneiderman's office said local prosecutors have been «cordial» and not attempted, before Abelove's «end - run» last week, to impede the attorney general's review of deadly incidents involving police use of force.
In this 2015 file photo, state Rep. Charlie Stallworth of Bridgeport listens to testimony at a law enforcement forum at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford on the deadly use of force by police officers.
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