About 20 minutes into the chase, a man’s voice states, “No cars have permission to pursue,” followed by a woman’s voice, broadcasting the order, “Fifth district cars, terminate the pursuit.”
One female officer said she and “33” were going to find out what was going on, and another woman reminded them the chase was terminated for 5th District officers. The female officer responds, “Yeah, but this is our patch here, so that’s why we are going see what’s going on.”
Minutes later, on an access road leading to Heritage Middle School in the East side suburb, 13 police officers fired 137 rounds at the couple.
When is it justifiable to make swiss cheese out of unarmed passengers? I missed that factoid in your earlier post.
Waco changed everything. If you can burn the "hostages" and children to death, shooting is certainly allowable. There's no such thing as overkill anymore.
"Overkill (term), the use of excessive force or action to achieve a goal"
If deadly force is justified there is no overkill. Dead is dead. There is no "extra dead", "super dead", "deader than dead", "ultra dead", "mega dead" or "uber dead".
I have a choice. I disagreeI wonder what would have happened if they would have just pulled over when they were ordered to do so? One thing's for sure: sensationalist-hungry gun forum posters across the nation would have felt cheated out of a chance to rant about the police in yet another incident where they have absolutely no idea what really happened except for what the self-serving, liberal media has fed them.
On that, we all have no choice but to agree.
I have a choice. I disagree
There is in a court room if I am being charged by the State or sued by the dead perps family. If I shoot them one time and they die will look a whole lot better to the jury vs shooting the perp 27 times
Yep, never been someone run because they were simply scared to go to jail over a marijuana charge. Wait, that has happened, never mind.
Who is going to testify that the first round you fired of 27 killed them and that you recognized they were no longer a threat and fired 26 more times to earn an "OVERKILL" t-shirt?
In your scenario, the question the jury would be faced with is whether or not your choice to use deadly force was reasonable. Not the means, not the number of rounds fired.
After looking at the photograph of the "head on collision" I'm going to wager that those cruisers in fact DO NOT have dash cameras.
Probably all the cruisers pulling up to the scene have them (as shown in the video posted early)... but those particular cruisers do not. Bad apples don't usually get dash cams...
That would require a constitutional amendment, or that of a reversal of opinion upon the matter of Tennessee v. Garner.
Even death? Sounds perfectly reasonable.If someone is going to run thereby endangering innocent people because they are scared of a pot charge than they deserve whatever they get. Maybe if they wasn't stoned they would be able to make sense of it all. Lame excuse for a crime where there are no valid excuses.
Also depends on what the way in which the local media portrays me as well. The jury pool does watch the news occasionally. Local paper isn't exactly gun friendly.