A Davenport, Iowa police officer shoots dead a 2-year-old Labrador in front of the dog’s family—including the mother, young child, and a young cousin. The officer was never bit, or even so much as scratched, by the dog.

Did the officer simply EXECUTE this poor dog? Could there be ANY legal justification for this officer’s use of deadly force to kill a family pet?

The legal answer, like it or not, is that YES, this shooting of the dog was legally justified.

Anyone not uncontrollably subject to neurotic hysteria regarding this event, and capable of engaging their powers of reason and having a mind open to actual to law, facts, and reasoned analysis, is invited to join me LIVE at 11 AM ET to discuss!

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A white police officer shoots a fleeing black suspect—Malachi Williams--in the back, at a moment where the suspect presents no immediate threat to the officer.

Worse, the officer’s body worn camera footage shows no apparent indication that the suspect was armed.

Is this police shooting of a fleeing, apparently unarmed, black suspect in the back yet another example of police systemic racism and excessive force?

The answer is no—because, as usual, the devil is in the details.

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Today's LIVE show is in response to the video posted on August 25 by the channel "Washington Gun Law" (Attorney William Kirk) regarding the shooting death of Roger Fortson by a Florida deputy back in May.

The deputy was responding to reports of an apparently violent domestic violence complaint when Fortson responded to the door knock with a gun in hand--at which point the deputy shot Fortson.

Kirk had previously concluded that the shooting of Fortson was an outright execution for Fortson having merely exercised his Second Amendment rights.

I critiqued Kirk's conclusion that the Fortson shooting was an outright execution on the basis that (despite claiming to be a criminal defense attorney providing legal analysis) he never made a single reference to any relevant Florida use-of-force law whatever, nor entertained any legal argument that might favor the deputy who shot Fortson.

It is frankly unimaginable to me that a criminal defense attorney can offer a legal analysis to the public on a use-of-event of high public interest and controversy without even once considering the likely defendant's legal defenses.

In my own critique I made actual use of the relevant Florida law that, combined with the facts available, provides a sound foundation for the legal conclusion that the deputy's shooting of Fortson was lawful, if awful.

The Kirk video we'll be taking a look at today is apparently in part a response to my critique.

Full disclosure: I have not myself watched this Attorney Kirk video, so I'll be seeing it for the first time during today's live stream.

So join me for my own LIVE response to Kirk's latest video in this series at 1PM ET!

In the interests of full transparency, here's my previous LOSD legal analysis of this unfortunate shooting (along with WGL content links):

LOSD: REAL LAWYER | The Roger Fortson Shooting: Awful? Lawful? Both? (5/13/24)
https://youtube.com/live/Zy1xcbAU2l0

WGL: The Florida Man Who Was Executed for Exercising His Constitutional Rights (5/13/24)
https://youtu.be/IWepSw11YiA?si=hO7QaGkgk1QbgflQ

LOSD: Sound Legal Analysis, or Shameful Misinformation? (5/15/24)
https://www.youtube.com/live/JEf63eHv0ac?si=dnHROCOoL2N1pFPZ

WGL: Charges Filed Against the Deputy Who Ended This Man's Life Because He Was Armed (8/25/24)
https://youtu.be/BPN8V2SgUkE?si=onqmYu0nW4j6SepR

#rogerfortson

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