Does the death penalty exist anywhere in Australia? NO
Do the courts here employ executioners? NO
Does your local magistrate order such penalty as having a limb lopped off for public nuisance?
Do some of you want that?

I can see it in my mind's eye - court scene, gavel crashes, magistrate with black cap over wig - "You are guilty of being upset enough in public to display your real feelings about police. This court will show lenience. I order that you will now be taken to the place of execution (conveniently below in our soundproof cellar) where your right leg will be struck off above the knee. That'll slow you down you young scalliwag !"
In the name of all that is holy might you people get things into perspective.
Australia spends millions on diplomacy arguing against the above scenario overseas - yet the people those diplomats represent are too damned stupid to say enough is enough about the death squads roaming our own streets.
Look at the statistics and admit that even if it is, as some profess, 'suicide by police' - for some reason it is becoming too prevalent

If you don't want the people who protect you from these nutters to have guns then petition and get them removed from service.

In a year's time you'll be begging for them back.

I'm getting sick and tired of this 'shoot to wound' rubbish. Educate yourself before you comment on something you have NO IDEA about.

pale SURELY it is not too much to ask.
Battle after battle between us long ago convinced me we need not address our remarks to one another.
Yet you continue to involve ,me in your comments.
Let me assure you I can look after myself, am aware of libel laws and if I ever need advice on the subject promise I will not look to your group for it.
Shot in the legs?
3 shots to the chest but in the legs too?
He was sprayed with capsicum, but shot in the legs?
was he?
I now leave yet another thread because I want to avoid trouble, only once in another forum have I ever left because I did not want conflict.
Not a cowards act, I am no coward, but for the good of the forum I step away from another subject rather than stay.

The 15 year old youth who was shot on Thursday night has a passing resemblance to the photos of the prepubescent cherub the grieving family supplied to the media.

The facts this was 15 year old youth with his own hate website, a job in a pub, a taste for rum and playing with knives. He had threatened people in a car with his knives and tried to steal a car. Sounds like he was berserk, whether through mental instability or because he was off his face on drugs we will have to await the coroner.

Possibly an older officer could have defused the situation and calmed him down, but as an older officer wasn't there - were the police on duty supposed to get injured or killed restraining a person engaged in sociopathic behaviour.

Don't worry about poor mum, she failed her duty of care to her 15 year old son.

I find it incredibly hard to believe
that 3 armed and trained police officers
could not manage a young kid no matter
how "off his face" he may have been.

To me that points to the fact that there's
something dreadfully wrong with their training.

He wasn't carrying a gun - so why couldn't they
have used their batons on him, slapped his
wrists, arms, whatever, disarmed him, and
arrested him?

Shooting 10 bullets into him?
The kid was only 5ft 7ins in height.

I feel so sorry for the family.

Someone must be held accountable.

The police behaviour in this case is
a disgrace. They're supposed to protect
and serve the community, not kill and
destroy.

And three against one ??

I couldnt imagine where I would ever blame the policeman.

Having been one, at one time, I understand the training and it is more than adequate.

The constable knows his job by the time he gets out onto the street.
He/she has had the best of training, by expert men and women.

He/she knows he/she has been given all authority to protect life.

One of those lives he/she's been given authority to protect... is his/her own.

If the offender wants to arm himself with knives or guns and directly threaten the policmans' life then the offender risks the ultimate sacrifice.

Police do not shoot people without just legal and just cause.

In a moment of time the policeman can have but one decision to make..."is this man going to kill or seriously injury me?"

Only the policeman on the spot knows that moment and what he/she has to do to protect his/her life.

No one else apart from God was there at that moment.

Cops nowadays are not gun happy.

Theres enough psycholical testing to weed out all of the would be gunslingers.