GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY per NPR

[Ted King]

Lemon Drop wrote:
[quote=Ted King]
A lot of trials of police officers charged with injuring or killing someone involve the juries being asked to make the judgment that in a few quick seconds or less that an officer made the wrong decision to fire their weapon. There's a good chance the officer who shot 13 year old Adam Toledo in Chicago won't face any charges, but if he does the jury will have to find that he made an unreasonable decision to fire in that split second.

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By that logic it is not possible to comply with police orders to surrender. The cop yelled "drop the f÷cking gun" and he did.
Why bother to even say that? The child dropped whatever was in his hand and put up both hands, facing the police. Why should he then be
Shot to death?
Just to be clear - I do not advocate for finding the officer who shot Toledo innocent. I was just trying to point out why I think police officers are often not found guilty by juries - that juries tend to want to give the officer the benefit of the doubt (makes it harder to get to "beyond reasonable doubt") when the decisions they make are made very quickly in volatile conditions.