President Jacques Chirac of France said there was "no justification" for the use of force.
As spokesman for the State Department in 1999, I was asked for a legal justification for the use of force.
In recent years General Yang was said to have sought a publisher for his memoirs, which included a justification for the use of force against the Tiananmen Square demonstrators.
There may be ample justification for the use of force against a regime that has used chemical weapons against unarmed citizens.
The court had heard that the watchdog had decided that "there is no evidence to support the various allegations of assault or possible criminal action or misconduct given the circumstances during a public order incident at which the police officers were considered to provide a reasonable and proportionate justification for their use of force at the time".
This would also help with the legal justification for the use of force". The meeting concluded that Downing Street "should continue to work on the assumption that the UK would take part in any military action" but "not ignore the legal issues".
Although the circumstances, rationale and justification for the use of force by law enforcement personnel and civilians differ, the individuals involved in both types of altercations do share many similarities beyond mechanism of injury.
Nor did he discuss the Department of Justice Office of Legal Policy document giving the administration legal justification for the use of force.
"When the investigation is complete the case will be turned over to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office... for final disposition on use of force justification," Sergeant Trent Crump told Reuters in an email. .
Still, Matthew Harris, a University of Tennessee economics professor and the author of the second study, cautioned against using the study as a blanket justification of militarizing police forces.
