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Justified shooting man with machete?

I think bullets would be better. While rigging up some kind of tool that shoots a machete at people would be cool and all, it's really not a proper usage of taxpayer funds and the police should just be sticking to using their guns.
 
coloradoatheist said:
Two scenerios here, cops shooting a guy with a machete. But the one that we questioned, shooting a guy for illegally fishing with a gun(see bottom of article)


http://www.denverpost.com/2016/10/05/cu-boulder-man-machete/
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Good question. Would like to see more evidence of what he was doing and why the police felt he was a clear threat. (Was he just standing there or running at them?)

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The newly completed Champions Center, a centerpiece of CU’s push to renovate athletic facilities, houses the offices for the football coaching staff and other athletic department personnel.

“All of our student-athletes and staff are safe,” CU athletic director Rick George said in a statement.
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Whew thank God the newly completed Champions Center, a centerpiece of CU was not injured.
 
From the very plain text of the article it doesn't sound justified, but maybe there are missing details.

The man made "harassing statements" to someone. But freedom of speech allows for "harassing statements." Were they threatening statements too? Was he brandishing the machette? Because that is illegal, but the article doesn't say. He then followed that person into a public building. Also allowed in the constitution. The police arrived and confronted him in a stairwell and told him to "drop the machete." But he did not, so they executed him. It sounds like completely unreasonable behavior by the police without additional details.
 
coloradoatheist said:
Two scenerios here, cops shooting a guy with a machete. But the one that we questioned, shooting a guy for illegally fishing with a gun(see bottom of article)


http://www.denverpost.com/2016/10/05/cu-boulder-man-machete/
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This depends on the perceived threat at the time. If the man charged at them with his machete in his hand, then the quickest reaction would be to shoot him in self-defence.
If the man illegally fishing pointed his gun at the cops after being told to put it down then there would seem to be threat, then there would also be a justification to shoot him to remove the perceived or actual threat.

This would be subject to the findings of a subsequent investigation to determine whether the use of force was subject to the perceived threat at the time the shooting occurred.
 
Did he look like this?
MACHETEINSPACE.jpg
 
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