Politicians might be on this all day making some political hay as they say.
Tampa’s female mayor at the time forbade any police chases after a fatal accident. Kids would steal a car, ram a patrol cruiser and run away. So many police cars were damaged and it became such an embarrassment that the mayor relented and they resumed chases. After one successful collar a blond girl stamped her foot in the capture video and wailed, “You’re not playing by the rules!”
The takeaway was, if you want fewer chases, have more chases.
Can you imagine seeing 12 criminals flying out of windows and doors from an SUV rolling so fast?
Wow.
> 5 dead after SUV being chased by Border Patrol crashes
What happened to the other 27?
I am unmoved by this story. This was the ‘reward’ for that kind of risk-taking.
Thrown from the vehicle! Guess that’s one way to separate them.
And the only problem with it is, they had traffic messed up for a while. Should have just put the remains back in the SUV, put it on a flatbed, swept up the road and re-opened it.
SUV feeling guilty? If that SUV didn't decide to run away, maybe none of those people would have been killed.
Obama/Holder would have seized on this event as an excuse to cancel all high speed Border Patrol pursuits, on the grounds that it endangers the immigrants, the officers, and innocent bystanders.
Certainly all of these riders would have been safe and comfortable in a Federally-operated dormitory with security for those seeking to come or go.
They chose poorly.