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Only problem is, some of your facts are made up. Fact: the chase at times reached 100 MPH, but in the quote above it states that the PIT was performed at 110. That is not established fact. Certainly, it was not performed at 35 or less, but watching the video, I highly doubt it was done at 110 either. Fact is, the chase was not at nor did it exceed 100 MPH during its entirety.

Further, there was never any proof that officers decided to use the PIT in that location because the next county would not allow it. State Police typically have superior authority to any county agency, and therefore the policies of the county would not apply to the GSP anyway, so your arguement is without basis.



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Officers in Georgia last week followed neither of the above. State troopers on Interstate 95 attempted to PIT a Nissan Pathfinder on Aug. 17 at speeds in excess of 110 miles per hour. Two people in the SUV died.


That was a statement GSP made to a news agency that I quoted. How you can say that it isnt a fact is beyond me.
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Fact is, the chase was not at nor did it exceed 100 MPH during its entirety.

I must've missed that fact. The cars on the highway are obviously doing 70+ and the GSP cars are flying by those cars. Its clear that they're doing at least around 100, just from the video.
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so your arguement is without basis.


Again you seem to be missing the point of my arguement and end up getting on small sentences within the arguement.



There are several articles on the internet detailing this situation, and only one of them that I've seen says that they pitted at 110. I believe that to be either a typo or deliberate error on the part of the journalist. Actually, I am more inclined to believe the latter.

Further, many truckers (of which were many of the vehicles being passed) do not do more than 60 on any interstate, due to company policy. Roehl, out of WI, is one such major CMVC that has a policy rewarding its drivers with a bonus if the do not exceed that speed limit for a given period of time. Therefore, you cannot judge the speed of the chase based on how fast they were passing normal traffic, as you do not know how fast that traffic was going, regardless of any speed limit in place.

And I got your point long ago, you simply want to be able to run.

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