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Police consider a moving vehicle a deadly weapon. Thus, if you’re trying to flee from them by driving, especially in an erratic manner, you’re considered to be wielding a deadly weapon and they can thereby respond with lethal force.
Agree or disagree, this is the logic.
Even calling it logic is pushing it.
"Pretense", "excuse", or "bloodlust-induced delusion" would be more accurate.
By that "logic", they'd be justified in murdering every single motorist for at some point swerving unexpectedly.
You know that people are killed by cars, like, all the time right?
People are killed by their bodies much more often, want people to be murdered on the street for operating THOSE "erratically" too?
There's simply no justification for shooting someone who's not imminently and acutely endangering the life of someone else.
Driving into another car at 15mph does NOT do that.
You know that you can just let the guy go now, defuse the situation, then pick him up later without having to kill him, right?