_Even the disturbing aspects of Jackson's personality and Presidency — his commitment to slavery, his willingness to threaten and use fatal force, his waging of war against Native Americans and his policy of Indian removal — are curbed into the long moral arc of the country's progress, along with the better sides of his legacy, his role in the great transformation of American democracy.
Prosecuting police in the U.S. is difficult for any crime, let alone murder, but that should not be an excuse for failing to bring charges against police who use fatal force.
(It is illegal in the United States for a police officer to use fatal force against a fleeing suspect unless the officer believes the suspect is armed and poses an immediate threat to the officer or the community).
The shooting at Stockwell Tube Station in south London is the latest in a number of incidents in recent years in which British police personnel's use of fatal force has been questioned in inquiries or the courts.
The report, issued by the office of community-oriented policing services (Cops), presents an unusually detailed review of the use of fatal force by police officers, tracking fine-grain details of each shooting incident, such as number of shots fired, number of suspects involved, number of police involved, races and ages of police officers and suspects, whether the suspect had a gun and much more.
A significant number more — at least 257 deaths — had been either ruled an accident or investigators found the officers were justified in their use of fatal force.
In the months after Garner's death, the phrase became a rallying cry heard during mass demonstrations across America as part of a spreading movement against police brutality and use of fatal force.
March, Walsh and Gaffney have all been accused of filing false police reports after the shooting exaggerating the threat posed by McDonald in an apparent effort to justify Van Dyke's use of fatal force.
Activists in South Carolina are making fresh demands for more citizen oversight of policing after the fatal shooting of 50-year-old Walter Scott on Saturday brought the city of North Charleston to the forefront of an ongoing national debate on police brutality and use of fatal force.
It almost certainly will be again.* "Shoot to Kill: police accountability, firearms and fatal force".
