Originally posted by arch:
70 mile chase.... 13 miles into GA.
45 Minute chase... 10 minutes into GA.
Yup I guess you're right. Cops wouldnt have been able to get a helicopter to pick the car up with a magnet. Because you know, chase 'copters always do that. Spike Strips wouldnt have been able to be used in that 70 miles ethier. And I guess the presence of all those cop cars and 18 wheelers, they couldnt have boxed the car in ethier. There is ALWAYS another viable alternative. In this case there were many and the cop chose the wrong one. And if you're seriously going to tell me that the cop didnt know he was going to kill the people inside of the car, or at least criticaly injure them, then you are the most ignorant person I have ever known of.

Preservation of Life. Cops do not have any more authority to kill somebody than anybody else does.



Wrong, police do have much more authority to use deadly force than civilians. That is well established in every state (lol, well, maybe not Texas). And yes, the PIT maneuver is considered deadly force, but so is attemping to shoot out the tires, or using spike strips at that speed.

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