Police Kill Man Who Beat Child to Death

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If someone was doing that to my kid, he'd be begging to be shot if I got hold of him before the cops did.

One innocent death, one... how to say this without being terribly crass... quick execution of justice? No matter what the child had done, nothing could deserve being beaten to death. Without more detail on what other methods to stop the man from beating the child were attempted, the police officer felt it was justified in shooting the man. There will be some sort of police review, but I'm guessing there isn't going to be much public outrage over the shooting death of a brutal child murderer.

What disturbed me the most was that the child will have to be identified by DNA because he was so badly beaten. What sort of depraved person does that to a kid?

Even if you knew why, the answer probably wouldn't suffice.

There are disorders that cause blinding, uncontrollable rages. People using steroids and drugs like PCP are also know to have rages like that. Sometimes people are just fucking assholes and beat their kids for throwing food/formula/juice in their car. We'll never know.

I call it Justifiable Homicide.

There are very few times that I would commend a cop (or anyone) for an act of violence. This is one of those times.

wow. yeah, that's a Justifiable Homicide, right there, i think.

i'd be willing to go to prison to stop something like that, even, myself. no problems whatsoever.

Who would convict you. Hell, I would buy you beer.

Chief Wiggum: No jury in the world is going to convict a baby of murder...



Well... maybe Texas.

but i'm not legally retarded.

That is not the type of medal I would give someone for beating a child to death.

if those who provide regulatory oversight on the actions of officers in the line of duty believe that the officer did everything within his or her ability to end the situation and protect the life of the victim in a non-violent, or at least non-lethal manner that could end the situation in a timely enough manner to have a chance at saving the victim, then no, it is not homicide. police officers are allowed to use deadly force if all other means of saving the life of the victim have either been tried or eliminated without a doubt as to them being unable to end the situation.

i believe the officer was in the right to shoot, as time spent seeking to incapacitate the offender most likely would have guaranteed the death of the toddler. i still feel it was the right choice despite the child still dying.

it happened in Modesto, which has a pretty bad meth problem.

that's pretty much the only thing i can think of other than having gone completely insane that would lead to a grown man killing a toddler.

Not a happy ending. Can't be, with a dead child.

But it sounds like justice.

The only really sad part is that this prick didn't get to suffer like the child did.

No. The sad part is the child's death and suffering.

Just to pick a legal nit here, whenever one person kills another it is homicide. It must then be determined whether there is a legally valid justification or excuse for the homicide, and barring those whether the homicide is murder or manslaughter.

Suffering does not justify more suffering, truthfully. In this situation, though, a great amount of suffering begat a very swift amount of suffering.

shh... you're ruining my machinations.

(of course, there are those out there who wouldn't label the guy that did this as "human", too. i wonder what we'd have to call that, then? subhomicide? quasihomicide? sapiencide?)

Police Kill Man Who Beat Child to Death

My opinion:

Vermicide.