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10 comments:
A police killing is not considered murder. As a journalist you should know that before you write an article.
Human beings my ass, when these criminals killing people they think of the people as human? When they killing people why you not coming on tv and running your mouth. Those residents from grave yard never see when people killing people. But soon as is police every body see
@1 Anonymous there are different types of murder. I think the journalist is correct. There is first, second or third degree murder also murder by misdemeanor or self defense.
Only the death rate of vermin has apparently increased. Leave the Police alone! There is no death penalty here -- only for the victims of goons. Ms Goody-two-Shoes should find another hobby!
Just to correct the misconceptions by two posters. There are two types of crime involving a fatality they are homicide and murder.
Homicides are described as the taking the life of one person by another, and by that token murders are also considered homicides.
So a police shooting is considered a homicide except that in most cases they are considered "justifiable homicide" and is not a crime. However, there have been cases when police officers have been convicted for a crime when it proven that they willfully and with premeditation taken someone's life even in the execution of their duties.
Murder on the other hand focuses on the unlawful killing of a human being. Involves some degree of premeditation or intention (first degree and second degree murder, murder in cold blood or in hot blood). Careless, accidental killing is 'manslaughter' rather than 'murder'.
Just for the purposes of edification
There is an unholy and danger-frought alliance between political expediency and trigger happy policemen.
Here's how this dynamic manifests itself in St. Lucia currently, both the police and the government are under increasing pressure to bring the run away crime situation, and particularly the murder rate, to some semblance of abatement and both parties are hugely invested in the success of that venture.
The acting COP wants to deliver on his promise to reduce crime in St. Lucia so that he can lay claim to the job permanently, and the Minister of Home Affairs in particular and the government would like to trumpet that success on the campaign trail as a promise delivered and a valid reason for reelection.
This scenario provides a raison d'être for the few trigger happy policemen in the force to satisfy their lust for blood. It also provides plausible deniability of wrong doing in the case of a wrongful death charge.
We want the police to do their jobs unfettered and we have a responsibility as concerned citizens to assist them in whatever way we can, but we must take them to task when we suspect evidence of a crime on the part of the police. This is not a case of being politically correct but of guarding our civil liberties.
Give them an ince they will take a foot and before too long we will be waking up in a police state. We all want to live in a society where crime is at a "tolerable" (for want of a better word) level, but be careful not to throw the baby out with the bath water.
A word to the wise
i wanna call for an investigations into that bonehead condoning criminality in stlucia
Get it straight the police shootings are homicides. Murder is the unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by another. So unless we have unquestionable evidence that those police shootings were unlawful and premeditated then it cant be deem murder. The proper terminology is homicide. Not that stlucians can tell the difference. In that light my justification is clear as to why i dont allow my daughter to listen to these so call journalist we have in stlucia.
All policing groups have a list of 'bad men' who they bring in for questioning when something that has happened looks like what they on the lit have been questioned about in the past.
Police took out just a few and the streets are a lot quieter now. What a difference a day makes!
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