veganfan21 wrote:
It's about the precedent, Brick. The Floyd situation obviously went too far and the cop in question will rightly never police the streets again. Floyd will also never walk the streets again, so that's obviously tragic, but it's not due to the concept of exerting force to subdue a suspect. It's due to the individual actions of the officer. I'm sure you want the cop you call to your home to stop a violent invasion to use all available means to neutralize the suspect, even when he's at the point of resisting arrest. Let's not let the actions of one guy (and it's probably more than one guy, of course) dictate how police are supposed to deal with actual threats moving forward.
You are comparing the situations where lethal force is acceptable and the situations where lethal force is not acceptable. In a violent home invasion they aren't going to be stopping the suspect with a knee on the neck. They will be shooting them. However, if we extend the hypothetical situation to one in which a violent criminal is in my home trying to harm me then the same reason they could justifiably shoot them would protect them from using a knee to the neck.