New California Law Requires Cops To Kill People ‘Only When Necessary’

I’m sorry…what?

WHAT exactly do California legislators think cops do?

KILL FOR SPORT?!

According to NPR:

Police officers in California will be required to use lethal force only as a “necessary” response to a threat — not merely as an “objectively reasonable” one — under legislation that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Monday. Under the tighter standard, deadly force is legal only in instances where there are no other options.

WOWOWOW. Cops will be so DEVASTATED to find out they can’t kill people for fun anymore.

But seriously – The “other option” is usually for the cop, or someone ELSE, to be killed.

So I suppose police officers should consider that, first.

“I’m ready to sign this damn thing,” Newsom told the crowd at a ceremony in Sacramento. But before he did so, he invited the family members and loved ones of people who advocated for the measure to stand alongside him.

“I would be honored if you would join us up onstage,” Newsom said.

Surrounded by dozens of people, the governor said he hopes the law, which takes effect in January, will become an example for other states.

“As California goes, so goes the rest of the United States of America,” he said. “And we are doing something today that stretches the boundaries of possibility and sends a message to people all across this country — that they can do more.”

I just can’t wrap my head around this level of virtue signaling. This is absurd.

“The whole debate boils down to two words: ‘necessary’ and ‘reasonable,’ ” Ben Adler of Capital Public Radio reports. “Right now, deadly force is justified if a reasonable officer would have acted similarly in that situation. So in other words, what a typical officer would have done based on his or her training. When the law takes effect in January, that standard will change to when the officer reasonably believes deadly force is necessary.”

But Adler also notes that the law mostly avoids offering a specific definition of “necessary” — a move that is widely seen as leaving the interpretation up to the courts, where judges will weigh what is “necessary” in the context of officers’ use of force.

Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, is widely seen as the driving force behind the bill, AB 392. In promoting it, she has said it will boost the public’s trust in the police and protect the sanctity of life in all communities. When the California State Legislature approved it last month, she said she was proud of her colleagues.

Yeah. Do you know what this will ACTUALLY boost?

The number of dead cops and civilians because police officers are too afraid to assertively do their jobs.

Way to KNEECAP our law enforcement, Newsom.