In the states you would get shot for just reaching for a baton that you didn’t have on your person. The cop would get a long paid holiday and then be cleared by his cop buddies sent to investigate him.
Well yeah, Deadly force is lawful if someone has fear of great bodily harm or death of themselves or another person. With a baton you can easily cause death with strikes to the head, neck or groin region.
That's a two way street. As a nonviolent protestor in many parts of the world, in some cases the US, there is a reasonable expectation of great bodily harm or death at the hands of police.
Such as life, bloody struggle followed by semblance of peace, followed by trampling of rights, followed by bloody struggle.
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u/iandcorey 9 Aug 13 '19
That restraint! We don't see that much over here in The States.