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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How is shooting a suspect with a lethal weapon acceptable if they are innocent until proven guilty?
gpt
It isn't. Police in American are generally not allowed to just shoot people willy-nilly.

Shooting someone who is a threat to you or others IS acceptable however. If you have a weapon of some sort and are confronted by the police (even if you've done nothing wrong) drop the god damn weapon. Not because it's the law, or they are right, but because it's dramatically improves your odds of continuing to live. The side of the road is not the place to litigate your constitutional rights. After all even the police have a right to defend themselves and holding/walking around with/waving around a weapon when confronted by armed and trained individuals (who are often little antsy due to adversarial attitudes and conditioning) is a generally a bad idea. It's easy to misinterpret someone turning or stumbling as an aggressive move and we do give police wide latitude in determining what a 'threat' is (especially when confronted with an armed suspect) so that they can do their jobs effectively. The good ones don't abuse this.

Yes there are exceptions, and a number of police shootings that are bogus. Everyone who replies can find ten cops that have gotten away with murder, but most rational people believe that is something that needs to change.