[lbo-talk] San Jose Cop Kills Vietnamese Woman and Found Not Guilty

[Thomas Seay]

--- DoreneFC at aol.com wrote:
> --Of COURSE anyone should be appalled that cops more
> or less have license to 
> blow away 4-foot-tall 98-pound mentally ill brown
> people for brandishing 
> vegetable peelers. But perhaps we should also be
> appalled that some cops really are 
> not given any tools except their firearms for
> defusing situations like this.

Ok, let's give the benefit of the doubt to the cops (I
dont want to do that but let's do it for the sake of
pursuing another line of argument) and say that the
cop had a right to protect himself and use his gun. 
Why 
did he have to shoot her in the chest?  Why not shoot
her in the arm or some other non-lethal area of the
body in order to disable her?  It is disputed by
witneses, but the cop says that he warned the woman a
few times before shooting.  Wouldn't that give him
time enough to think about a non-lethal way of
subduing her?

-Thomas

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