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Just Because Someone Wants a Cop to Shoot Him Dead Doesn’t Mean We Have to Comply

Just Because Someone Wants a Cop to Shoot Him Dead Doesn’t Mean We Have to Comply

Posted on August 19, 2018

Discusses the uses of deadly force by police officers in cases involving individuals with mental illness and alternative non-lethal ways of handling the situation.

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