{"id":41031,"date":"2019-12-05T16:07:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T21:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41031"},"modified":"2019-12-05T16:07:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T21:07:03","slug":"philadelphia-inquirer-it-should-be-unconstitutional-when-police-officers-kill-fleeing-felony-suspects-philly-das-office-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41031","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Inquirer: It should be unconstitutional when police officers kill fleeing felony suspects, Philly DA&#8217;s office says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Inquirer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/ryan-pownall-police-shooting-david-jones-larry-krasner-20191205.html\">It should be unconstitutional when police officers kill fleeing felony suspects, Philly DA&#8217;s office says<\/a> by Chris Palmer:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A month before the trial of former Philadelphia Police Officer Ryan Pownall, charged with third-degree murder for shooting a North Philadelphia man to death during a traffic stop, prosecutors are taking aim at the state law that allows police to use deadly force in some circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>The District Attorney\u2019s Office has asked the judge to give jurors instructions about the state\u2019s use-of-force law that would essentially undercut what is expected to be the main theory of Pownall\u2019s defense: That he was legally justified in firing his gun at David Jones, who ran away from Pownall after being stopped while riding a dirt bike and illegally carrying a firearm in 2017.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Inquirer: It should be unconstitutional when police officers kill fleeing felony suspects, Philly DA&#8217;s office says by Chris Palmer:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41032,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41031\/revisions\/41032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}