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Kyle Rittenhouse - The Truth in 11 Minutes

Grizzly Adams said:
In the Brooks case, the very week before he charged two cops with aggravated assault when they used tasers against someone. Then when Brooks fires a taser at cops and gets killed for it, he charged the cop who killed him with murder. There is no internal consistency in those decisions. The two most likely explanations are rank incompetence and political bias. I know which one I favor.
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Why is this inconsistent? A police officer using a taser on a civilian outside of policy sounds like assault. A civilian using a taser on a police officer also sounds like assault. Neither case necessarily justifies using lethal force against the perpetrator.
 
lwf said:
Why is this inconsistent? A police officer using a taser on a civilian outside of policy sounds like assault. A civilian using a taser on a police officer also sounds like assault. Neither case necessarily justifies using lethal force against the perpetrator.
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Not just assault, aggravated assault.

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2019 Georgia Code :: Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses :: Chapter 5 - Crimes Against the Person :: Article 2 - Assault and Battery :: § 16-5-21. Aggravated assault

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In Georgia, the least serious conduct included in aggravated assault is assault which is likely to, or does, inflict serious bodily injury, which is a legitimate justification for the use of deadly force. There's the inconsistency.
 
Grizzly Adams said:
Whoa, what now?
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Yea, crazy story. Before the investigation was complete the DA fraudulently moved forward with grand jury subpoenas while the grand jury was not in session. He then had three different ridiculous stories for how he got grand jury subpoenas. He was currently under investigation for other criminal behavior unrelated to this case.
 
lwf said:
Why is this inconsistent? A police officer using a taser on a civilian outside of policy sounds like assault. A civilian using a taser on a police officer also sounds like assault. Neither case necessarily justifies using lethal force against the perpetrator.
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A few weeks prior the DA said that a taser was a lethal weapon in the state of Georgia and charged someone with that assertion.

Then when a politically charged BLM driven case came to his plate where a criminal used a taser against a police officer he said the taser is not a lethal weapon when filing charges against the police for using deadly force to defend themselves.

It's inconsistent. I'm not sure about the first case, but in the second the taser had been fired twice prior to the officer firing at the victim. The taser only had two charges so it should have been inoperable. If the officer had known both charges were fired it was no longer a lethal weapon. But, he didn't have any information yet because he charged the officers with murder before having the results of an investigation.
 
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