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Police pursuit ends deadly
danny_galaga:
i have LAME (tm) internet connection. i watched this once. wasnt there a cop before bonnet boy, standing on the ground and firing at the car?
my personal belief is that cops should consider giving chase at all. especially people who steal cars just hoping to get chased...
as apollo said, it amounts to a death sentence. but living in such a lawless country i guess you gotta do what ya gotta do :dunno
edit: just looking for news stories. if it turns out the driver had a gun or something, then i can understand the need to shoot at him.
shardian:
The newsnet5 article says all three cops fired their weapons.
And from the video, it does appear the cop jumped on the hood before a shot was fired. I guess his reasoning was because he slammed his car into the drivers door and could not get to the driver that way.
It may have been ill advised of the cop to jump on the hood. His actions led to his life being in danger when the guy started to take off. Still, technically the cop was defending himself.
I'm not going to go say crap like "the guy deserved to be pumped full of lead". However, I do think there should be a law that charges a person initiating a police chase with attempted vehicular manslaughter for every single passenger car they pass during the chase. It is plain stupid to run from the poice. It almost always ends bad for someone - be it the perp, a cop, or a family of 4 in a minivan.
I think the cop will be relieved of duty, but I doubt there will be criminal charges. He will be sued in civil court for wrongful death by the guys family though.
danny_galaga:
i guess im finding it hard to understand how these cops put themselves in harms way. if your gonna be out shooting, why not shoot at the radiator? a few holes and the engine will be toast in less than one minute after a high speed run. and how dangerous could he have been when the cop was able to perch on the bonnet on one knee and fire into the car? the fact that he seemed to have climbed safely onto the car is telling...
hyiu:
what he's doing is leading him to that dead end road...
at the beginning of the tape... seems like that cop saw him making an illegal u turn or something... then he tries to run in circles.. (and it did seems like for a moment, he's trying to hit the cop car....) and then swirl around the cop car and went on its way...
I mean... if he just stop, and get a ticket... or if he's really lucky... maybe he can even talk out of a ticket....
fact that he's running meaning he has something to hide...
and even if he does not have a gun... I would consider the car he's driving a deadly weapon..... he can easily hit some innocent people / car / house.
if it takes like 3 cops car and multiple hits on the car to stop him, I'm not surprised that the cops open fire...
one2three:
http://www.wcpo.com/mostpopular/story.aspx?content_id=4b0e49e2-a2bc-4742-aecf-757bb372f02d
http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=384a1828-eada-4264-9e6c-8def9f217708
Another news article. Note: he did have a list of priors, more than likely he was holding or just whacked out of his skull.
I feel for the officers involved, not sure how bad their injuries were, but pulling the trigger always results in some mental anguish no matter how justified. As for the family of the driver, hopefully they realized how much of a scumbag he was and wrote him off before the shooting.
Edit: added second link; turns out he was drunk and high.
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