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by UVB-76
3691 days ago
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> Police are allowed to investigate, and that's exactly what they failed to do in this case. This stop was part of their investigation. How else are they supposed to eliminate the seller from their enquiries into the stolen laptop? A person can be lawfully detained with reasonable suspicion alone, and it sounds like the police had it in this case. In the process of detaining someone, the police can use reasonable force. The use of Taser was probably not necessary, but it could well have been reasonable. The article is silent on the robbery in which Derek's laptop was stolen, but if it were aggravated, and the police had reasonable suspicion they were detaining the person responsible for that robbery, then the use of force is all the more reasonable. |
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