"Unfortunately, it's another example of how the N.Y.P.D. has targeted without justification the Critical Mass bike riders," he said.
Students nearing the end of their course were often targeted with the justification that they would soon graduate and select jobs based on their current preferences.
Moreover, since shareholders can amend corporate charters to restrict targeted repurchases, there is little justification for regulatory interference by the state in the private contractual arrangements among shareholders.
The Pakistani Taliban's rationale for targeting the school attended by the children of the Army was to make them "feel the pain of losing their children," and their justification is "we targeted the school because the army targets our families," said Mr Khurasani in a phone interview.
He greatly expanded the role of suicide bombings, with increasingly callous theological justifications, targeting not only the occupation forces and their Iraqi allies but also innocent Shia civilians and politically unfriendly Sunnis, earning for himself the well-deserved title of "the sheikh of the slaughterers".
A widely expressed concern is that assassination - or targeted killing - will become more widespread if the legal justifications continue to be stretched.
The outlines of the administration's justification for targeting an enemy outside of the battlefield are well known.
Some have depicted America as a bully targeting Afghanistan without adequate justification, careless of its people because they have different religious and cultural values.
The following day NBC news published a Justice Department white paper summarizing the Obama administration's legal justification for targeting American citizens.
This is their justification for targeting such places, despite the legal requirement to ensure its attacks are proportional, distinguish between military and civilian objects, and avoid civilian casualties.
It uses unrelated acts of violence, such as the July 2016 shootings of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, as justification for targeting black dissident voices.
