Hi super_hunt54,
I've already posted a link to the felony murder rule. Here is California Penal Code Section 197 verbatim:
Homicide is also justifiable when committed by any person in
any of the following cases:
1. When resisting any attempt to murder any person, or to commit a
felony, or to do some great bodily injury upon any person; or,
2. When committed in defense of habitation, property, or person,
against one who manifestly intends or endeavors, by violence or
surprise, to commit a felony, or against one who manifestly intends
and endeavors, in a violent, riotous or tumultuous manner, to enter
the habitation of another for the purpose of offering violence to any
person therein; or,
3. When committed in the lawful defense of such person, or of a
wife or husband, parent, child, master, mistress, or servant of such
person, when there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design to
commit a felony or to do some great bodily injury, and imminent
danger of such design being accomplished; but such person, or the
person in whose behalf the defense was made, if he was the assailant
or engaged in mutual combat, must really and in good faith have
endeavored to decline any further struggle before the homicide was
committed; or,
4. When necessarily committed in attempting, by lawful ways and
means, to apprehend any person for any felony committed, or in
lawfully suppressing any riot, or in lawfully keeping and preserving
the peace.
CA statutory law protects civilians equally as police officers when it comes to using deadly force.
super_hunt54, instead of using the logical fallacy of argumentum ad hominem, refute facts I've posted. I'm good with Socratic debate when the objective is fleshing out knowledge.
This is the US Supreme Court controlling case defining police office use of deadly force:
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/fed...71/1/case.html
Best of luck to you