Rude Pundit-Would a Good Guy with a Gun Have Been Justified in Saving George Floyd?

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4. That's a thought I've had often about this case.

Hypothetically, if somebody had been watching this happening from a building across the street, watching through a window in that building, and he had decided, "Those cops are murdering that man. I've got to stop this." And then that person had taken his hunting rifle and shot Derek Chauvin just to get him off of George Floyd and save Floyd's life, I very seriously doubt if that person would have been legally justified in taking that action, I am sure there are laws that forbid that action, but I do believe that he would have been morally and ethically justified in doing so. And yes, all hell would have ensued, but it might have saved Floyd's life.

An interesting hypothetical to think about.

This Rude Pundit rant was great, and if it boils down to just one sentence, it is this one:

"The cop is supposed to be the good guy. The tragedy is that they so often aren't."

And that is a point that I hope and expect the prosecutors will make during their summation to the jury. Also that Derek Chauvin's actions are the kinds of things the police are supposed to PROTECT citizens from, in a sane and decent world at least. Instead we live in a world in which police too often are the criminals themselves.

-- Ron