re: Deputies Try To Kill Pitbull, Kill a Teen

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I have seen women make an argument that a woman dressed scantily and in a bar getting drunk should not be raped. They are correct. They should not be. However, you increase you chances of it if you dress provocatively and put yourself in a dangerous situation.

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That's a false analogy. If I rape a woman, and I try and argue that she was scantily clad and asking for it, it is likely inadmissible as evidence and certainly not an affirmative defense or legal cause for justification.

On the contrary, courts and prosecutors have allowed the subjective fears of individual officers, even those that are irrational, to justify homicide. There is a big difference between these two situations.