Quoted from Box A Rox

Sorry Cissy, you're on your own.  Play your little girl word games with some one else.

If you actually have anything to post, let me know.  

I expected you to dance around the question, but I guess not answering is just the same.

I didn't make the word game, the state did.  It's Orwellian political speak, it redefines what used to be referred to as assault.
Here I'll help.

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EXCESSIVE FORCE
Excessive force by a law enforcement officers is a violation of a person's rights. Excessive force is not subject to a precise definition, but it is generally beyond the force a reasonable and prudent law enforcement officer would use under the circumstances.

Force should be used in only the minimum amount needed to achieve a legitimate purpose. Police brutality is a direct violation of the laws within the police force. The use of excessive force is also a direct violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S Constitution regarding cruelty and protection of the laws.

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Very few incidents of force result in charges of excessive force, says Henriquez. From 1994-98, his project documented 147,362 incidents of police-related force and 6,163 complaints, only 654 of which were sustained by review boards. That’s only .44 percent of force being considered excessive, he says.

But Alison Collins, who wrote a report on police brutality in the U.S. for the group Human Rights Watch, has different numbers. She says the Justice Department receives “12,000 complaints every year of law enforcement abuse,” fewer than 50 of which result in convictions — often the fault of the legal system, not the complainants, according to her.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=96509&page=1#.UVoZEY5U318

So the answer is no, the mundane doesn't get latitude in their use of force.   The mundane will be charged with a crime for using force that the government find unacceptable.

You don't have to dance around box.  Just admit that you believe the police as agents of the state have the right to commit violence against the citizens, and that their use of force will rarely if ever be a crime.  It's just "excessive force".  

The cop is the edge on the blade of the state knife.  They are members of the state priesthood-untouchables.

Quoted from Box A Rox

What would make the police trigger happy?  The fact that a very small number of people like you and
Cicero advocate hatred of the police... a force that most Americans view as being on 'their side' not
being the 'enemy'.

Face it Henry, the officer in this video was in the process of arresting 3 criminals when he was shot and
killed for no reason.  They weren't abuseing the criminals, or mistreating them in any way.  

THIS POLICE MAN WAS KILLED IN SERVICE TO HIS COMMUNITY AND DESERVES THE RESPECT AND
HONOR OF SOMEONE WHO HAS MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE.

All you and Cicero show for this man is contempt.  

they are 'on your side' until you vote improperly and our lawyerly-legislators legalize another form of police action
or jail time for another law/regulation they decide to pass...FOR FU(KING FUN....IE: HATE CRIMES...WHAT A JOKE
THAT IS, NOT TO MENTION A PODIUM PUCK THAT PUTS POLICE IN DIFFICULT SITUATIONS AND ACTUALLY ENCOURAGES
MORAL CODE BE DICTATED BY A UNIFORM....