Article about these shootings that makes some interesting points about the ‘War on Cops’
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.......The law permits the police officers to use lethal force if they have a reasonable fear for their safety or for the safety of others.
Courts have consistently held that, when considering the potential liability of a police shooting, we should consider only the facts known to the officer at the time.
That’s understandable. We can’t hold police officers accountable for information they didn’t have.
But reasonable isn’t the same thing as legitimate or accurate. And if police officers are seeing threats where there clearly are none, it makes sense to start asking why.
This is where the rhetoric of police groups and their supporters comes in. Law enforcement advocates such as the National Rifle Association, police unions, conservative politicians and, of course, President Trump regularly tell us there’s a “war on cops.”
They describe police work with words usually reserved for the battlefield. They fuel the mistaken belief that relatively rare incidents such as roadside ambushes are common. They equate criticism and oversight of police with violence.
And they cite small increases in the number of police fatalities year to year with percentages without providing the proper context — that violence against law enforcement has dropped to the point where even small increases look large when expressed as percentages...........
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/14/atatiana-jefferson-was-victim-war-cops-rhetoric/