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originally posted in:TFS The Floods Sanctuary
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Edited by Jaaake AU:
2/16/2015 2:19:04 PM
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Brazil cop shot dead in prank hold-up
The news article isn't very long, so I'll just copy that out here. Details seem to be.. scarce.
[quote]A Brazilian police officer playing a prank on a colleague by simulating a hold-up has been shot and killed.
An officer in the city of Rondonopolis was pulling out of his garage to go to work, when his friend rode up on a motorcycle wearing a helmet saying it was a hold-up.
The officer in the car drew his gun and fired several shots into his friend's stomach.
When he realised it was his friend, he rushed him to a hospital, but it was too late.[/quote]
[url=http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2013/01/19/Brazil_cop_shot_dead_in_prank_hold-up_837048.html?cid=ZBP_NEWS_L_L6-9_Brazilcopshotdeadinprankholdup_RSS_180113]Source.[/url]
It doesn't say anything about whether or not the victim was carrying a weapon, so I assume that there wasn't one involved. Given what little information there is, do you think shooting someone several times is necessary in said situation? Do you think the cop who shot his mate should be accountable for his actions?
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1 Reply[quote] Given what little information there is, do you think shooting someone several times is necessary in said situation? Do you think the cop who shot his mate should be accountable for his actions?[/quote] Jake, you have been interrupted from your daily grind by someone who is apparently intent on committing a violent crime against you. You are armed, and you have about one second to react. What do you do? Too late, you are dead. We don't have the luxury of deciding the boundaries between appropriate force and inappropriate force in these stressful situations, we simply decide fight or flight.
