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Originally Posted by endless psych  Reasonable force. Simple really the force used to detain someone should be the minimum amount of force nessecary for the threat they present. Doesn't nessecarily mean the police have less 'rights' in this regard there was a case somewhere (I think in the UK) where someone recieved a few cuts from a machete and that was deemed reasonable force. Mainly because he was holding a gun to someones head like. |
Yeah, reasonable force depends entirely on the situation.
This man, for instance, was quite rightly (in my opinion) acquitted for firing a harpoon into another man's face, irreversibly blinding him. It was reasonable force for self defence under the circumstances (plus, it's a cool X-ray).
That farmer, Tony something, who had the Daily Mail, The Sun and Littlejohn blowing their tops when he got five years in prison for shooting a burglar dead, on the other hand, deserved to go to prison. He shot a boy in the back with a shotgun when the boy was several feet away, climbing through a window in the opposite direction, trying to escape.
