It’s the latest example of how surveillance footage can undermine the government’s public statements, and a law enforcement expert told CNN it clearly demonstrates some of the poor tactics being used by ICE officers.
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Yeah, if you shoot someone in the back, you’re a criminal every time.
It drives me crazy when movies depict police yelling “STOP!” and then just start shooting at someone as they run away, without any narrative of how that police just tried to murder someone who wasn’t a threat to them.
That Hollywood normalization of murder had literally brainwashed the majority of people into thinking it’s acceptable and legal for police to murder people by shooting them in the back.
Saw just that in the new Apple show Lucky. FBI guy goes blasting away at 90lb girl who running away. Especially fucked up when his boss said not to pull guns wanted her alive. But most movies normalize it so that we will think it okay and normal.
Well no but he did get hit by a car that was sort satisfying. I thought he was killed but scene later revealed he in hospital hurt but would survive but never be a field agent again.
In any work set before 1985 this is likely to be accurate. Most states had laws on the books called “fleeing felon laws”, which specifically authorized law enforcement to shoot fleeing suspects in the back if they were suspected of a felony. SCOTUS deems that practice unconstitutional in 1985 (with some exceptions).
Yeah, if you shoot someone in the back, you’re a criminal every time.
It drives me crazy when movies depict police yelling “STOP!” and then just start shooting at someone as they run away, without any narrative of how that police just tried to murder someone who wasn’t a threat to them.
That Hollywood normalization of murder had literally brainwashed the majority of people into thinking it’s acceptable and legal for police to murder people by shooting them in the back.
Saw just that in the new Apple show Lucky. FBI guy goes blasting away at 90lb girl who running away. Especially fucked up when his boss said not to pull guns wanted her alive. But most movies normalize it so that we will think it okay and normal.
Did the cop loose their job or face any criminal charges in the show?
Well no but he did get hit by a car that was sort satisfying. I thought he was killed but scene later revealed he in hospital hurt but would survive but never be a field agent again.
At least there’s a happy ending to his murderous rampage in the story
In any work set before 1985 this is likely to be accurate. Most states had laws on the books called “fleeing felon laws”, which specifically authorized law enforcement to shoot fleeing suspects in the back if they were suspected of a felony. SCOTUS deems that practice unconstitutional in 1985 (with some exceptions).
OK, so verry early buddy cop movies have a slight excuse. Modern day media does not