Friday, January 08, 2021

Not How This Works

The headline on the latest Washington Post opinion page piece on the Jacob Blake shooting in Kenosha reads:
I understand that the writer is very upset at what they seem to think is a miscarriage of justice, based on their legal training from old Law & Order reruns, but...um...I've got some bad news for them. Neither the number of shots nor the range they were delivered at have any bearing at all on the legality of the shooting.

The question is not how many times the shooter shoots or what range he shoots at, it's:

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