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To: Rusty0604
If the cops had quit chasing the car, wouldn’t that ended the chase?

The following may or may not answer your question. It's from the syllabus:

Rickard’s outrageously reckless driving—which lasted more than five minutes, exceeded 100 miles per hour, and included the passing of more than two dozen other motorists—posed a grave public safety risk, and the record conclusively disproves that the chase was over when Rickard’s car came to a temporary standstill and officers began shooting.

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Petitioners did not fire more shots than necessary to end the public safety risk. It makes sense that, if officers are justified in firing at a suspect in order to end a severe threat to public safety, they need not stop shooting until the threat has ended. Here, during the 10-second span when all the shots were fired, Rickard never abandoned his attempt to flee and eventually managed to drive away.

44 posted on 05/27/2014 10:14:31 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

So he was driving that fast and reckless and the cops weren’t even chasing him?


56 posted on 05/27/2014 10:27:49 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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