State panel wants law changed on police use of deadly force

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OLYMPIA — A state law on the use of deadly force by police should be changed to make it less difficult to charge an officer with a crime after an incident in which they wrongfully kill someone.

That’s the major conclusion of a special task force which spent the past six months trying to chart a course for preventing violent and deadly encounters between law enforcement officers and citizens.

A narrow majority of members voted Monday to recommend rewriting the state law to deal with what they deemed a nearly insurmountable legal barrier to prosecuting officers involved in a wrongful death of another person.

Under the existing law, an officer can’t be held criminally liable for using deadly force if they acted “without malice” and with a “good faith” belief that their actions were justified.

http://www.heraldnet.com/news/state-panel-wants-to-see-law-changed-on-police-use-of-deadly-force/

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