article_snippet.sent: (CNN)It won't come as news to anyone in America today that the authority to make an arrest carries with the authority to make an arrest the potential to escalate to lethal force.  
article_snippet.sent: But the seemingly innocuous genesis of police authority (initial stop and question, pulling someone over for a traffic violation) becomes significant because of the potential result (deadly force).
article_snippet.sent: And an arrest, we know, can have fatal results.
article_snippet.sent: This raises some serious questions about what exactly we want we heavily armed law enforcement officers to be doing.
article_snippet.sent: And if we're comfortable with that, then we also have to be comfortable with the police giving chase,and making an arrest -- sometimes with whatever force whatever force deem necessary in the moment.