Stand your Ground - Not if you are a black woman?

BStrong said:
Everything depends on context, and like everything else in LE (and politics too for that matter) there are certain variables that can't be accounted for, but any use of a firearm on duty that isn't justifiable that does not result in injury or death could be anything from a letter to file, to time off w/o pay to dismissal, depending on agency standards.

I'll tell you where the real punishment comes in.

If you're one of the guys and you screw up with anything related to self gun handling or use the shame of it (it doesn't need to involve injury or death either) will follow you around like a tail for the rest of your LE career.

Case in point. When a local CLEO retired I was asked to speak at his retirement dinner, and before I could even say yes or no I knew why.

When this officer was a young guy. 30 + years back he was part of his departmental shooting team, and at some point there was a team photo taken where the officers were turned out in dress uniforms with their revolvers held muzzle up in the strong hand.

He was the only guy that had his finger inside the trigger guard, on the trigger...

I built a whole comedy routine around a blown up version of that photo, and as is my prerogative as a long time certified firearms instructor I critiqued his technique, training, skill and family background. What he whispered in my ear when he was finished would be auto-censored heavily, but we're on friendly terms.

A less funny example is a particular officer that was known to me that negligently discharged a firearm he was showing to a fellow officer off duty where the round passed through the calf of the officer w/o doing major structural damage but ending up around 200K in medical bills, which the negligent shooter was responsible for but wasn't disciplined past some TOWO, but not to many fellow officers wanted anything to do with him and he found other employment.

Officers that accidentally injure innocent members of the public in a similar fashion would face much harsher action in agency and in civil court as well, although the municipality would most likely foot the bill if the incident occurred on-duty.
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Would you rather be shamed by your buds or spend 60, 20, or even just 3 years in jail?
 
Desert Fox said:
I agree that she was wrong but does her level of wrong justify 60, 20, or even 3 years in prison?
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Florida lore says discharge a firearm in commission of a felony is 20 years, straight up, full whack, no remission.
 
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Noztradamus said:
Florida lore says discharge a firearm in commission of a felony is 20 years, straight up, full whack, no remission.
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We both know that it was written for things like armed robbery not an imperfect self defense situation.
 
Metullus said:
I do not think that this really qualifies as an "imperfect self defense situation".
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If she did it because she felt she was in danger, it is self defense. She seems to have reacted out of fear, justified or not. Dies not seem to have been acting in a manner to terrorize him.
 
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