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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]jberryhill
(62,444 posts)13. Yes, I'm trying to figure out what are the distinctions
While I realize that DU is all about first forming an opinion and then declaring those who don't agree with it to be miserable, awful people, there are situations where person engaged in a course of life-threatening activity and who cannot be apprehended are the subject of deadly force by law enforcement.
Charles Whitman, Bonnie & Clyde, John Dillinger.... other persons engaged in activity, or dangerous suspected felons who are fleeing or evading capture become the subject of deadly force in the course of law enforcement. It's not some strange unusual and new thing from that very general point of view.
Yes, there are all sorts of distinctions as well, but I'm more interested in hearing what lines other people draw than in pontificating about my as-yet unformed opinion.
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I think if he would have surrendered peacefully, or at least released his hostage,
Sheldon Cooper
Feb 2013
#1
oh, good lord yes! This whole story gives me chlls of horror...I can only imagine
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#6
I think they had gone as far as they could go with him and had a strong inkling that he
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#12
I believe Pakistan furnished information about OBL's location. On the sly, as it were.
randome
Feb 2013
#44
Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S., Sherry Rehman denies your "secret" agrremnt.
Luminous Animal
Feb 2013
#47
So if this is true, why isn't the government of Pakistan saying it? Why an ambassador?
randome
Feb 2013
#51
Do you have any proof for that other than the fact that the government said so?
Recursion
Feb 2013
#27
No, but I also am at worst ambivalent about drone strikes against Americans in arms against the US
Recursion
Feb 2013
#39
At the point that they had to go in and rescued the child the man did not deserve a trial
madokie
Feb 2013
#11
People like Jimmy Lee Dykes are their own judge, jury, and executioner...
EastKYLiberal
Feb 2013
#21
Dykes was a true "imminent" threat. Al-Awaki's teenage kid, not so much.
Comrade Grumpy
Feb 2013
#30
Because he really did pose an imminent threat to the child as well as to the police.
JDPriestly
Feb 2013
#59