Police do take lots of risks for the public. 186 died last year, 69 from being shot. “Most of us don’t realize that an officer is being killed in America on average every other day.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22400744/

Yes, most defense attorneys tend to have an adversarial relationship with police, who are trying to convict our clients, and our clients tend to look more like Bell and Diallo, but the rules underlying police use-of-force are basicaly the same as those applied to our clients who use force in self-defense.

We, more than most, should understand the problems of eyewitness perception and memory, of reaction time, and of the need to make decisions in bad light, with limited information, in tenths of seconds.

Yes, the Bell officers made a bad decision about whether Bell had a firearm. Had they waited a few tenths of second to see the firearm, they would not have had time to avoid being shot. The media widely covers those cases where the officer doesn’t hesitate and is wrong. Cases where the officer hesitates and is shot rarely receive mention.

The critics don’t look at the cost of waiting and being wrong — the risk of an injured or dead officer, or a shot fired wildly by a suspect that hits a bystander during the ensuing gunfight, or officers shots during that fight that miss and hit bystanders. The officer has a responsiblity to use deadly force only in response to a reasonable belief that he/she or the public is in imminent danger of death or serious bodily harm — but at that point, he or she must act.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQTSQpF7hic

These are my girls! If you look closely, you might even see a public defender in the guise of a roller girl.

I loved her first album – absolutely loved it. After that..I don’t know what happened.

This was an abomination.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W91sqAs-_-g