The family of a 3-year-old killed in a northern Missouri house fire says it is outraged after police used a stun gun on the boy's stepfather as he tried to run back in and save the child. Riley Miller died early Oct. 31 in the Mississippi River town of Louisiana. A city police officer fired his stun gun at Ryan Miller as he tried to re-enter his burning home, which was destroyed.They say hard cases make bad law. This is a hard case. I tend to side with the father; he should have the right to risk his life for his stepson, exactly the same in theory, if maybe not in magnitude, for the firemen who would try to rescue someone, and do, in fact, die in the attempt in many cases.
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The family says it is considering legal action against the city. City Administrator Bob Jenne called the police response a "judgment call."
But I see where the policeman was coming from.
Are we now a nation the denies ordinary citizens the right to try to be heroes?
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