When is it okay for Police to shoot fleeing "suspects"?

[ksen]

How many mugshots do you ruin with hot glue on a daily/weekly basis?

 

[Toni]

Raddaz Hearns pleaded guilty to a weapons charge.
Trenton teen shot by police pleads guilty to weapon charge, sources say

Hearns was charged with aggravated assault, possession of a handgun and possession of a defaced firearm following the Aug. 7 confrontation. Authorities alleged he pointed a gun at police as he fled an arrest. He was 14 years old at the time.
Now 15, Hearns pleaded guilty Thursday to possession of a defaced firearm during a proceeding in Mercer County Superior Court's Family Division, three law enforcement officers with knowledge of the outcome said.
The officers spoke on the condition on anonymity because Family Division proceedings are closed to the public.
The shooting drew widespread attention, public protests and repeated claims on the teen's behalf that he was unarmed when a sheriff's officer and state police trooper shot him.
At one point last August, U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman called for federal authorities to take over the investigation.
Hearns' lawyer has said he intends to file a civil lawsuit against the city, county and state for the injuries the teen suffered. And the case against a sheriff's officer charged with leaking the teen's mughot to the media is ongoing.

What basis does the lawyer still have for the lawsuit? The shooting was obviously justified. By the way, that shyster was singing a very different tune last year.
Trenton 14-year-old was unarmed when shot 7 times by police, family's lawyer says
I also do not think the employee who leaked Raddaz's previous mugshots should be charged with a crime. The public has the right to know this teenage thug had previous brushes with the law.

So police officers who were not in standard uniform stopped 3 young teenaged boys, one of whom ran and police fired a minimum of 10 shots at him, 7 of which struck him. Aside from a teenager who was shot 7 times, other targets hit were a nearby car and a home. How fortunate that no one in that vehicle was struck and that the bullet was embedded in the siding of the house and did not penetrate to injure or kill another innocent person.


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A spokesman for the Attorney General's office said Wednesday that "darkness and the vehicle both impaired the ability of investigators to find it."

The Attorney General's Office has declined to say how many times the officers fired, though there appears to have been at least 10 shots.

The teen was shot seven times, according to Anyan, and at least three other bullet holes are visible at the scene - two in a nearby car and another in the siding of a house.

It's nice to see that you are STILL quite...flexible about which criminal acts deserve outrage and which do not.

Christopher J. McKenna, 37, of Hamilton, is charged with wrongful access and disclosure of information, a third-degree crime. The Attorney General's Office said McKenna on or around Aug. 21 used a restricted police database to get the arrest photos of the teen.

McKenna, a sheriff's officer since 2003, provided the photos to the newspaper, The Trentonian, which published them. Juvenile records are sealed and it is illegal to disclose them.

The mug shots do not seem to be of the same individual.