A cop only has 4 reasons to shoot a suspect...

[kentuck]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=834727503258510&set=p.834727503258510&type=1&theater

[Kalidurga]

1. Well that sums it up.

[loyalsister]

2. In MO, a person just has to be a suspect.

Chapter 563 of the Missouri Revised Statutes grants a lot of discretion to officers of the law to wield deadly force, to the horror of many observers swooping in to the Ferguson story. The statute authorizes deadly force “in effecting an arrest or in preventing an escape from custody” if the officer “reasonably believes” it is necessary in order to “to effect the arrest and also reasonably believes that the person to be arrested has committed or attempted to commit a felony…or may otherwise endanger life or inflict serious physical injury unless arrested without delay.”

Much more

http://www.thenation.com/article/190937/why-its-impossible-indict-cop#


I don't have anything clever to point out one obvious characteristic that does not include actual behavior.

[still_one]

3. In Ferguson there is one more they sadly do, the suspect is black