Show I 1 illegal death penalty A few doas dp ago a it policeman fatally wounded a woman ending in an automo automobile bilk in oakland which he bombarded bom baided with shots ills ilia excuse waa was thit ne lie was suspicious Auspicio ui of it of what is not clear cle arand and han vy fai failed ed to atop on his ills hail had he opened fire there is a con coit oil al pm ision wion that no person in the united states may be de ot of life 11 liberty or property without dur process of law et her ass bb e a policeman I 1 taking aking the life of a citizen merely becaj because 1 se fe bb lb had a suspicion that something thing indefinite was wrong hie ills oi only ily M is i the tho Justi justification of oil a officer in firing upon uron tin escaping r prisoner pris but the occupants pf thia machine were not prisoners boners v the ad never been legally in hn his custody or at all it officers are ta assume that they have a right to blaze away with their guna guns pecry timo time they think eo is wrong or TO ster I 1 ious bus without really knowing anything whatever about it end ond ore are to act on that assumption all ordinary ci citina eon can do ia is to take to the woods there ie io a campaign on all over the united states to have the deota penalty abolished when criminal criminals have beba a duly convicted convicted by of officers ficera without due process of law it to i full gull time they were made to understand that they are not justified in taking life every time they make a slip iu trying to arrest somebody or when T the they order them to stop merely to invests i gato them i because of the prevalence of crimes crimes of violence there is a natural tendency to feel eel that off officers seers must take drastic measures to pro ent eat and aa them but no citizen who gives thought to where all loose ar ond 1 miscellaneous shooting is leading us can justify it one of the sery fundamentals of our excess of murder and oth ar crimes of viol violence egeo is th ic c aro are too quick on the trigger we hold the thought as a people we ife have noi not the instinctive repulsion for JI it that w should have net until we acquire that attitude k of hostility howardi shooting both as cit citizens izeta and officers will there u be much hope of it marked reduction in robbery ond and murder |