Tragic, but moronic on the part of the driver. If they had convicted the cops, pursuit of armed criminal suspects would have ended. The thing that distinguishes US cops from cops in other countries is the extent to which American cops will put themselves in harm's way to apprehend suspects. For instance, in 2012, 4 British cops died in the line of duty. The American number was 133, or 33x the British number despite the fact that the US population is only 5x Britain's.
I don’t see this ending well.
It would appear that in the new Obama World, police officers have an obligation to give obvious felons a fair chance to pick them off before they are authorized to use deadly force.
Al Sharptongue to urge Cleveland to burn.
“Ultimately the chase ended in a school parking lot outside the Cleveland city limits, with Russell using his vehicle as a battering ram against the police cruisers. Faced with this imminent threat of death or grave bodily harm, the 13 officers on scene fired 137 rounds at the vehicle over a 20 second period, mortality wounding Russell and Williams.
Of the 137 rounds fired over those 20 seconds, all parties agreed that the first 122 bullets fired, and all the bullets fired during the first 12 seconds, were legally justified.
The only legal dispute was over the last 15 bullets fired by Brelo during the last 8 seconds, during which Brelo was standing on the hood of Russell’s vehicle and firing through the windshield. (Notably, during these last 8 seconds other officers were also still firing into Russell’s vehicle.)
Brelo was charged with two counts of voluntary manslaughter, and two counts of the lesser included offense of felonious assault.”
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For each of these counts, the Judge found that they had not been proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
The reason is that both Russell and Williams had received fatal shots from other officers, whose shots had been deemed lawful. Thus, even though at least some of Brelo’s shots certainly caused mortal injury, it cannot be said that Brelo was responsible beyond a reasonable doubt for their actual deaths because Russell and Williams would have died from the other officers’s lawfully fired bullets even absent Brelo’s fatal shots.”
At least this Mayor called for calm.
Given the circumstances, the cop made the right decision in waiving his right to a jury trial.
From the perspective of the rest of the world, It would appear that Justice is not only blind in the United States... but DEAF and MUTE as well,
In North America... Justice kneels and weeps in grief...!!