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Apollo:
Since when did the sentence for failing to stop become death, you have some strange ideas over there, no wonder the rest of the world thinks your country is going to the dogs.
That video looks exactly like something that might happen in a facist nation which is where you guys are heading if you don't wake up.
The cop put himself in danger by jumping on the car, he shouldn't then be able to murder someone just because they are driving away.
The only situation in which the cop should have shot the driver is if the driver had a deadly weapon of some sort and was threatening to use it (and no the car should not be considered a weapon because the cops put themselves in danger, the driver was driving away from the cops).

Apollo:
heh maybe this should be moved to pnr now

FrizzleFried:

--- Quote from: Apollo on September 27, 2007, 10:23:35 pm ---Since when did the sentence for failing to stop become death, you have some strange ideas over there, no wonder the rest of the world thinks your country is going to the dogs.
That video looks exactly like something that might happen in a facist nation which is where you guys are heading if you don't wake up.
The cop put himself in danger by jumping on the car, he shouldn't then be able to murder someone just because they are driving away.
The only situation in which the cop should have shot the driver is if the driver had a deadly weapon of some sort and was threatening to use it (and no the car should not be considered a weapon because the cops put themselves in danger, the driver was driving away from the cops).



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BS...the driver puts innocent lives at risk by running.  I personally knew a girl who was hit by a car running from the police and she died at the scene.

If you run from the cops you deserve what you get...even if that is a lead bullet.

EDIT: Removed the rest...why lower myself to his level...

Apollo:
Do the cops put innocent lives at risk by chasing people? How much blame lies with the cops when an innocent bystander is killed during a police chase?
Running from the cops = death? Interesting sort of system you have there Frizzle. What's next? Maybe people should be killed for fighting with cops even if unarmed or maybe people should be killed by the cops if the cops think they have a weapon even if the weapon turns out to be a chocolate bar or a cellphone...no wait that already happened. How about the fact that the cops were close enough to shoot the tyres of the car out and didn't bother. How about the fact that at the time he was killed the only person he was endangering was the dumb cop that jumped on his hood? How about the fact that the last time he was pulled over by a white cop at night he had ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- beaten out of him for nothing?

one2three:
How about the "fact" that the cop may have decided not to risk pursuing this upstanding citizen, and instead went on to ticket some dangerous j-walker, then later found out that upstanding citizen went on to plow his car into a bus load of school children?

Was excessive force used? Maybe, unfortunately that's up to others to decide. As for the question of putting others at risk to pursue a ---cleveland steamer--- head, I agree that this is a debatable topic, but that’s for another discussion. However IMHO the cop(s) made their choices, just as the driver did, now they all have to live (or die) with their decisions, and we all get to breath a sigh of relief that another criminal is off the streets.

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