Wednesday, September 14, 2016

We're the Only Ones Uncut Enough

Defending police who killed a man with schizophrenia, attorneys for San Francisco told the Ninth Circuit on Monday that officers had a reasonable basis to view the man's 1-inch blade as a deadly weapon. [More]
I'll tell you right now I'd use all force at my disposal against someone coming at me with an X-acto knife-- those things could completely slice through an artery in one swipe.

That said, per the family, that's not what happened.

I guess that's why we have trials.

[Via Mack H]

1 comment:

Longbow said...

Well, he wasn't groveling and pissing on himself, was he?

See? There ya go.