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"Moron" you say?

Since when does it become legal for a policeman (in this case a "paramilitary" Rambo cop) to blatantly shoot to kill in anything less than self defense?
The kid should have been arrested for damaging public property or perhaps even inciting violence, but I'd like to know where you get off saying this young dissenter deserved to die for his political objections.
Shot in the head twice?

Hmmm......I guess you don't mind we go the way of fascist Germany or even China??

Policeman Who Killed G8 Protestor
May Face Manslaughter Charges
By Derek Jensen
Deseret News staff writer
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,295012294,00.html?
7-21-1

GENOA (Reuters) - Italian prosecutors have opened a manslaughter investigation against a policeman involved in Friday's fatal shooting of an anti-capitalist protester at the Group of Eight summit, judicial sources say.

The death of 23-year-old Genoa resident Carlo Giuliani overshadowed the opening of the three-day summit and triggered appeals for calm by G8 leaders as fresh protests were planned.

Judicial sources said prosecutors had begun proceedings that could lead to manslaughter charges against the paramilitary officer who fired the shots that killed Giuliani. The policemen, who has not been named, was being treated in a Genoa hospital.

"He is to be placed under investigation on suspicion of manslaughter, as is usual in such cases," a source said.

He said the investigation would also, however, study whether the policeman had acted in legitimate self defence.

The fatal shooting occurred in a square about two km (1.2 miles) from the summit venue when about 30 demonstrators attacked a Carabinieri paramilitary police van with stones and iron bars as the violence peaked on Friday afternoon.

One -- later identified as Giuliani -- was hit by two shots from the van after he raised a fire extinguisher above his head as though to throw it at the vehicle, a Reuters witness said.

Leaders from Britain, Canada France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States rushed out a statement late on Friday calling for calm and on Saturday condemned "violence overflowing into anarchy" by a small minority of protesters.

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