No, not really. It only works if the "feeling of danger" is specific to the individual being shot, and is justified under the circumstances.
Or not shot at, because there was no firearm to begin with. But, we already know there doesn't have to be.
If a jury has a pro-cop bias in the way they evaluate that, that is not a problem you address by changing the law.
You're assuming it even goes to trial.
So you claim, based on the sampling of cases reported in the media, that "voice commands don't matter." You see a couple of videos where someone complies with a voice command and gets shot and that is the end of it, eh?
I've said it quite a few times, if we're ok with voice commands not mattering and death occurs, what's the point? Comply or die, Comply and die, as long as we feel justified in the death then it's all good and nothing will change.
At this point, it's been more than a couple, just a couple this week alone and it really highlights the cracks in the surface.
We have 700,000 cops in this country. Hundreds of thousands of arrests yearly. 99.99% do not result in anyone getting shot. But you're ready to make radical changes and give potentially deadly training to police because you saw a few videos?
What radical changes have I proposed? It's great that many arrests don't end in death, but I doubt that makes anyone involved in a police related death feel any better, it certainly doesn't bring back their loved ones.
I mean, deadly training? That's what we do already. We hire particular personality profiles and train them to be hammers, then surprised when they go around hammering everything?
As I've proposed in the past, increase in police accountability and reallocating funds to social services seems like a good start. It will certainly be presented as drastic by the "back the blue" crowd because they enjoy the benefits of the status quo.
When are you guys going to understand that these cases reported in the media are not the entire universe of police contacts with citizens? They are only being reported because there is a chance the shoot was not justified, otherwise you wouldn't hear about it at all.
Hey, a helpful reminder. I'll try to keep that in perspective here. It doesn't really change what I've said in this thread, but an important point.
I appreciate your and fski's takes on these matters, don't think I'm not reading them. I'm just of the opinion that for every one of these public incidents, there's many more bad apples behaving badly without consequence. To elaborate more, I think people rationalizing this by saying "the kid was out too late anyways" or "he shouldn't have had a gun" and so on, are really missing the point.
If you watch the video, it seems like the cop already had his mind made up by the time he reached the kid. I'm not gonna debate the legality with you, I'm unarmed

, but I'm a citizen and this is my opinion. It's shameful the way we compartmentalize deaths like this and move on.