Police chase ends badly..................for the perp.

[eagl]

That's the best video I've ever seen in my life.  The guy needed to be stopped at any cost.  He was driving so fast, seriously endangering everyone, and was so determined to keep going, that I think the cops had no choice to do *anything* necessary to stop him.

They rammed his car multiple times, tried to box him in, and it simply wasn't working.  The perp had plenty of time to figure out that they were very serious about stopping him, and he kept upping the stakes.

Why is anyone suprised that cops resorted to shooting such a dangerous person when everything else they tried didn't work and the perp kept escalating things?

The cops ought to get a medal for removing a very dangerous person from the streets.  I don't much care how they do it, people like that need to be stopped when there is no question that they are dangerous and are intent to continue their criminal activities at all costs.

Oh yea...

IN.

[68Raptor]

Originally posted by Bronk
Answer my question.

Bronk

There is no doubt he needed to be stopped. Disabling the vehicle by using any number of ways.. I.e. they had him stopped and time to take out the tires. He was not going to go easy.. officer on the hood with a gun in his face and he still kept driving.... perhaps a single shot to shatter glass or nightstick to clean out the driver side window glass then taser or tazer him to the point of him drooling on himself.

[Shuffler]

Idiot stole a car..... kill him.... take out the trash.


Good Job

[Neubob]

Originally posted by Shuffler
Idiot stole a car..... kill him.... take out the trash.


Good Job

Due process is overrated, I agree.

Who better to dispense justice than the guys with the itchy trigger fingers.

[Wolf14]

I will never understand the love some folks feel toward a criminal. They are no different than any other rabid animal that needs to be put down. From the moment those lights came that individual had plenty of opputunities to stop.



Wolfy

[Neubob]

Originally posted by Wolf14
I will never understand the love some folks feel toward a criminal. They are no different than any other rabid animal that needs to be put down. From the moment those lights came that individual had plenty of opputunities to stop.



Wolfy

What is this love for summary execution?

The cops are supposed to be professionals, not hunters. The use of deadly force is supposed to be a last resort. They had 3 cars with which to force him to stop. They chose not too.

But you're right. We should have just stuck with the lynch mob. Most of the people they execute will be guilty... Those that aren't will just be the eggs that need to be broken to make the omelet.

[Fishu]

Well, at least this cop made sure he doesn't miss and didn't endanger the whole neightborhood. It was a bit different case when several cops fired over hundred bullets at a pickup truck after an officer slipped and his partner thought he was shot - the driver was lightly wounded and the neightborhood had been peppered with bullets through the houses.

[Elfie]

Originally posted by Wolf14
I will never understand the love some folks feel toward a criminal. They are no different than any other rabid animal that needs to be put down. From the moment those lights came that individual had plenty of opputunities to stop.



Wolfy

It's all about due process.

[Elfie]

I really don't know what possessed that officer to get on the hood of the car. Did he think he was Mel Gibson making Lethal Weapon IV? I really don't see how lethal force is justified here, granted there is a limited view from the dash cams but even Jeffrey Dahmer got due process. This perpetrator was denied that by the use of lethal force.

In the very beginning the first officer says the guy tried to ram him, I with others who say he was just trying to get away and imo any *ram* was nearly caused by the officers driving.

[storch]

Originally posted by Fishu
Well, at least this cop made sure he doesn't miss and didn't endanger the whole neightborhood. It was a bit different case when several cops fired over hundred bullets at a pickup truck after an officer slipped and his partner thought he was shot - the driver was lightly wounded and the neightborhood had been peppered with bullets through the houses.

I go shooting with LE personnel, most of them need to get that close.

[LePaul]

So the recap is this...

Cop "embellishes" what happened ("He tried to ram me!")...

Criminal flees at high speed

Cant tell if cop 2 put out a spike strip or not?

Cops couldnt box/ram him in

When it looked like they finally had him, the "embellisher" just jumps on the hood and blasts away.

There's a lot of gaps in what happened at the end.  Was there a gun?  Dont know

But that "sterile" little camera seems to show a lot of areas where the cops couldve done better.  As someone else said, claiming the suspect "tried to ram me" when he didnt certainly put all the cops on edge and affected the outcome.

It'll be interesting to see what happens.