CA: Migrants-right group criticizes use of spike-strips in chases

Sac Bee ^ | 3/10/03 | Michelle Morgante - AP

[NormsRevenge]

SAN DIEGO (AP) - California Highway Patrol officers did not know a stolen pickup truck was loaded with more than 20 people when they decided to stop it with spike strips, the department said Monday.

Speeding west on a San Diego County interstate Sunday, the driver swerved around a spike strip, slammed into the center divide and rolled the 1998 Chevrolet pickup onto its side, tossing his passengers onto the pavement.

[philetus]

Wonder how many Americans were killed or injured in the U.S today, by illegal aliens?

[way-right-of-center]

They just have to stop chasing migrants to death

Of course, it had nothing to do with the fact that the illegals were breaking the law and evading police. Question: if it is unsafe to use the strips because of the danger to the 15-20 migrants in the vehicle, would logic dictate that the officer simply shoot the fleeing subject at the first inclination he was attempting to flee? One life vs 15-20 potential lives. How would activists view that?

[primeval patriot]

"They just have to stop chasing migrants to death," Smith said.

Another carefully scripted sound-bite to generate sympathy for illegal aliens.

California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc.

[The Old Hoosier]

The crash on Interstate 8 in El Cajon, east of San Diego, prompted immigrants-rights groups to renew calls for the Border Patrol and CHP to stop chasing vehicles at high speeds when they could be overloaded with people.

Uh...well, how about you stop RUNNING FROM THE COPS at high speeds?

[The Old Hoosier]

But if they're being chased, she said, "they should also know to just stop. There's no need to put everyone else in danger."

Somehow, it takes the reporter all the way to the end to address the real problem.

[185JHP]

Have you seen the video of the criminal alien's pickup that deliberately sideswiped other vehicles, hoping to cause an accident so they could get away? Crime *should* be dangerous - that's a good way to discourage it. If we want any immigrants from that country, we want the best, not the swinish, criminal worst. "Keep your drugs and your dregs" would be a good PSA theme motto. Savage is right on this.

[abner]

What a joke. The driver of the overloaded vehicle not only put themselves in danger, it put law abiding citizens in danger of getting hit by the loaded vehicle full of ILLEGAL citizens in a stolen vehicle.

These people are whining? The world has gone completely upside down...

[LloydofDSS]

>>"What is so troublesome about this is that lessons never seem to be learned. This is a replay, virtually, of the previous deadly crashes."<<

What I can't understand is what does she want the police to do? If the policy is that they don't chase any "possibly" overloaded vehicles, does she not realize that the illegals will find out what the policy is and proceed to make sure their vehicles all are dangerously overloaded? A speeding and overloaded vehicle will become a "free pass" to escape police at all times. Such a policy would clearly make things much worse. Can't she think?

[abner]

Such a policy would clearly make things much worse. Can't she think?

Nope. Liberals feel.