Speeding cop no lights or siren liquidates FOUR people 3895

Popeye

Popeye, the cop's job was to protect, not needlessly endanger the public. And, excuse me, how did the uncle break any laws? He was sitting at a four-way stop, lots of cars going through the intersection. The kid was approaching his side of the 4-way, slowing down to wait for his turn to go through (after my granddaughter's uncle took his turn). The damned punk cop's siren could be heard, but from which direction, going which direction? This intersection is bordered by brush on all four corners; from all four directions, you approach the intersection from a curve. If, as my son's brother-in-law thought, the cop was coming up behind him, he needed to clear the intersection to let the cop through. In hindsight, he should have kept sitting-- but I will not condemn him for making what turned out to be a horrible mistake. The cop, on the other hand, had absolutely no reason to speed through that town at 4:00 in the afternoon, he could have gone to the kid's house and waited for him to come home; the kid had gone joyriding before.

When you watch those high-speed chases on reality tv, do you ever stop to consider what may have happened to the innocent bystanders in the car-cars that the fleeing lawbreaker rammed into? California and some other states have wised up; policy now is to hem in and contain the lawbreaker; if a non-violent felon flees and begins to endanger the public with his driving, the cops wisely back off and give the man room: they know that they can and will apprehend him later.

But my argument is ignoring the perfection of a few: with your super-human, super-directional hearing, you may have known instinctively where the cop was coming from. Unfortunately, we are not all as perfect.

I do in fact blame that 22-year-old swaggering cop. Check.