Keir Starmer Quotes

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.

… intentional lethal use of firearms may only be made when strictly unavoidable to protect life.

At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?

There is no question that Darren Wilson caused the death of Michael Brown by shooting him, but the inquiry does not end there. The law authorizes a law enforcement officer to use deadly force in certain situations. The law allows all people to use deadly force to defend themselves in certain situations.

Murder begins where self-defense ends.

What has happened is the 'stand your ground' law has become so over-arching that the definition has been lost. There's a lot of people claiming 'stand your ground.'

You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.

It wasn't until two or three years ago that I actually learned that in the end he actually did kill someone. But that was a choice that he faced: to kill or be killed.

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

I don't have an issue with whether - from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment on people. We do it in capital cases. Police officers shoot fleeing felons.

We shall be justified before God and man in resisting force with force.

If one comes to kill you, make haste and kill him first.

You don't shoot to kill. You shoot to stay alive.

Why should a man have a better right to kill his neighbor with a house than with an axe in the street?

if someone has a gun and is trying to kill you... it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.

Michael Brown was a criminal who had robbed a convenience store and then attempted to kill Police Officer Darren Wilson. Michael Brown never raised his hands above his head and never tried to surrender. He was killed in self-defense by Officer Wilson after Brown first attempted to take the officer's weapon away and then charged at him.

I never shot nobody I didnt have to.

I would shoot him in self defense.

When the cops are trying to arrest you, if you fight back, things go wrong.

How could somebody be comfortable with authorizing legally the use of lethal force? My view is if you become comfortable with it, then you should get out of the job.

There has been an outpouring of anger and concern because of the actions of George Zimmerman, a private citizen who profiled a young boy and pursued him and tried to confront him, perhaps. But what George Zimmerman did is no different than what police officers do every day as a matter of standard operating procedure.

At the end of the day, we must respect the rule of law in respective jurisdictions.

The police have the right to prosecute people, but not use violence.

It is a duty for any government to uphold the rule of law, and this sometimes requires the proportionate use of force.