A clear step backwards: New firearms regulations and police use of lethal force in Argentina
(WorldNews Argentina)

Some of the new provisions fail to meet international use of force standards. Español A policeman shoots during an intervention in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2018. Photo.- NA, via FiloMews. All rights reserved. Off-duty police officer Luis Chocobar shot and killed18-year-old Pablo Kukoc in December 2017, several blocks from the scene of a robbery where a tourist had been stabbed in Buenos Aires. Kukoc had participated in the crime and was fleeing at the time, and he posed no imminent danger to anyone. Argentina´s president and the security minister received Chocobar as a hero and held his actions up as exemplary - despite a judicial investigation that questioned their proportionality and...