I don't dispute someone driving at these cops to scatter them. I have had people drive at me while I am bicycling simply to bully me off the road or just for their own laughs. In each case they put my life in danger much like I the article indicated the cops were in danger.
But there is a double standard. Drive at a cop to get him to move out of the way, and it's an attack with deadly weapon that can be responded with deadly force. When someone crosses the double yellow drives right at me when I am on a bicycle and we are the only two vehicles around, it's just an 'accident'. When someone decides to try and push me off the road when I am riding it's just 'ignorance'. I'm supposed to just 'let them do it'. To back down and not think anything of it. If I carried a firearm and opened fire in response to these, I would go to jail.
The drivers in these cases want the cops to scatter and get out of thier way, not to kill them. Same when someone on the road decides to brush pbutt a bicyclist or give a bicyclist a scare. They usually don't intend to kill, just push their way through without regard to safety. The cops don't feel they should just let them do it, but the rest of us are supposed to.
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