Shooting cops legalized in Indiana

[Is JCL in mushy sappy love]

     Didn't Indiana have a court ruling a while back that said that it was illegal to resist unlawful intrusion by police officers? Maybe they'll get it right one of these days.

This is them correcting tha mess. Or at least trying.

[Vasall des Midas]

RIP Rodney King.

I feel that this belongs in this thread.

[SteveRogers]

This doesn't bother me one bit. Why should cops be exempt and special compared to other citizens?

Because obviously there are borderline cases where probable cause or "clear justification" is iffy and the legality of a particular police intrusion has to be determined in court after the fact. In those cases you probably want to err on the side of not shooting cops.

[Sheliak5]

This doesn't bother me one bit. Why should cops be exempt and special compared to other citizens?

Because obviously there are borderline cases where probable cause or "clear justification" is iffy and the legality of a particular police intrusion has to be determined in court after the fact. In those cases you probably want to err on the side of not shooting cops.

In which case the "borderline" law should obviously favor the citizen and not the intrusive cops... I don't see the problem here..

[Senator MaxQue]

Reminds me of something who happened in Quebec. Police decided to enter an house in the middle of the night to execute a search warrant.

He shot the intruders and killed a policeman. He was prosecuted for murder, but was acquitted, because the court ruled than the search warrant could have been executed at a normal hour and than the guy had legitimate reasons to fear for its life.

[Badger]

This doesn't bother me one bit. Why should cops be exempt and special compared to other citizens?

Because maybe cops are put into situations much more dangerous than the average citizen.

That's actually a myth used to drum up support for police. Where are cops 99% of the time? In interrogation rooms and behind the wheel writing tickets.

The unvarnished ignorance of this post made me angry, then sad as I realized it had to have been induced by head injury.

Now, to address the  some of the slightly more thoughtful posters, the allowance of physical resistance to unlawful police authority isn't entirely novel. Ohio's statute on Resisting Arrest requires the arrest by "lawful", that is supported by probable cause (a much lower standard than proof beyond a reasonable doubt; a jury could reasily acquit someone of an underlying charge but convict for Resisting arrest on the charge).

The outrageous and stupid thing here is to permit resistance by lethal force. That's amazing.