Originally Posted By: PCG342
Morally and ethically? Liability remains intact. Legally? He gave them the rope, and invited them to the hanging.


Negative.

People can hark back to the 'he was told to do this or that' tune all they like, but that's not going to assign the attendant over the phone a better perspective than Horn--or even Zimmerman for that matter.

The 911 attendant's advice is definitely fodder for the masses. But not necessarily for a prosecutor.


If anyone recalls, there was a case of a 75 year old woman who chased a burglar out of her house and into her backyard with a .38 Special. She fired off a warning shot after he refused to freeze and scared him enough to make him stay on the ground. While she informed a 911 operator of this, she had to fire off another warning shot as he was making a second attempt to get away. The operator had the gall to say, "Stop shooting at him!" The operator was more concerned with the fact that the woman had a gun pointed at him than she was with her safety. If she followed that person's advice, she would have been put at great risk.

Last edited by Pariah; 2012-04-28 10:49 PM.