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Ending

posted 10 years ago by lostn
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Why did the police shoot Chester in the end? He was a fleeing suspect, but not armed and not an immediate danger to anyone. He was not convicted of any crimes (yet) so on what authority do they have to shoot him? Their job is to arrest him, and let the courts decide if he's guilty and his sentence. All he was doing was running away. He may not have been sentenced to death row. He may not even be convicted if he gets a good attorney.

Unless he's a threat to someone, the rules of engagement are they can't shoot him. What right do they have to kill him before he gets a fair trial? Are these cops authorized to be Judge Dredd? If he had a gun, fair enough, but he was just a winded, out of shape, middle aged man feebly running away.

[–] samantha3 10 years ago

It was Istanbul in 1962, more than half a century ago. Whatever their laws on the use of deadly force were, they were unlikely to be much like ours. And ours were a lot different then, too. Even Miranda wasn't law until 1966 or so, and that's solely in the U.S.

Just accept that in the story they did shoot him.

After all, it's amovie.

[–] mikeyflatley 10 years ago

Dis has 2 be done 2 further da plot

Werd 2 ur mudda, bruddafckka

[–] hlmitchell31 10 years ago

If you live near or close to the United States of America I can't imagine at all that you would be asking that question. In the run away police system of the U.S, police officers blow away people all the time meanwhile the general genteel American public sips away on their lattes not aware at all of their cognitive dissonance. That is until this unjust bell tolls for them.

[–] robert-171 10 years ago

they didn't even get their confession, but then again, this was Turkey so it's easy to just assume that foreign police wouldn't hesitate to shoot some bloke in the back...

[–] mrbobbyh 10 years ago

It made me think of Casablanca. There is a similar death in that one. Only without a confession

[–] badtothebono 10 years ago

THEY PROBABLY DO IT MORE IN THE USA THAN IN TURKEY.

WAKE UP

[–] Max-178 10 years ago

Why did the police shoot Chester in the end? He was a fleeing suspect, but not armed and not an immediate danger to anyone. He was not convicted of any crimes (yet) so on what authority do they have to shoot him? Their job is to arrest him, and let the courts decide if he's guilty and his sentence. All he was doing was running away. He may not have been sentenced to death row. He may not even be convicted if he gets a good attorney.

Unless he's a threat to someone, the rules of engagement are they can't shoot him. What right do they have to kill him before he gets a fair trial? Are these cops authorized to be Judge Dredd? If he had a gun, fair enough, but he was just a winded, out of shape, middle aged man feebly running away.

Agree 100%, but in the real world this happens often, and many people say "hey, if he didn't want to be shot, he shouldn't have fled"