Provides a theoretical justification for the conformity of the use of firearms by police officers to stop a vehicle by damaging it, when the person driving it, who refused to comply with the repeated demands of a police officer to stop and tried to escape, endangering the life and health of citizens, was harmed or killed, to the conditions of the legality of the necessary defense. A distinction has been made between legal relations regulated by the norms of the Federal Law «On Police», which regulate the grounds for the use of firearms, and criminal law norms, which provide for circumstances that exclude the criminality of an act
circumstances precluding criminality of the act, necessary defense, use of firearms by police officers, criminally lawful acts, the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation
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