This guy rams into two occupied police vehicles and this is a bad shoot?
Ok, you can have a policy that says don’t shoot at fleeing vehicles but if that person driving that vehicle is using it as a weapon, the policy goes out the window.
Most policies say an officer should not shoot a moving vehicle unless it is a last resort.
>>This guy rams into two occupied police vehicles and this is a bad shoot?
I see the word “struck” being used in the actual story, but everyone keeps saying “rammed”. There is a difference. Cops use their cars to block another car. If the driver hits them, he isn’t really ramming them.
Back when I was a cop-worshiping FReeper, I used to work nights and I kept a police scanner on my desk. I listened to a car chase on our Northside one night where the cops kept putting their cars in the way and then the perp would be forced to “ram” them. Finally, they boxed her in and shot her a dozen times. The next day, we learned that she was an adult with Down’s Syndrome. But, it was a good shoot because the cops “feared for their lives” (as they placed their cars in the path of the moving vehicle).
They use their cars to cause you to “ram” them.
They put you in a painful hold so you reflexively pull away and then you are “resisting”.
They set a vicious dog on you and if you hit it, you are guilty of “assaulting an officer”.
That’s how a Police State begins.