That's rarely the consensus around here.

Dog on a bone

They knew it was ONLY a stolen car? No, with the way this guy was acting, I don't see it far fetched to find out the guy was high on PCP, about to embark on a rampage or some other highly dangerous shit.

What is innocent?

Certainly he was guilty of attempted murder by the time they ended up shooting him.

Did you watch the dash cam vid? The chase is VERY short. This dude no doubt would have ran one of those guys down had he had a chance. By the time the radio is telling him to back off he is already being smashed into multiple times by the truck, and has it slowed to a crawl.


Again, I pretty much do not like cops. But in this case, dude had it comin.

Lotta speculation in your post.

Right, they are pissed off he rammed them, endangered their lives or maybe hurt them. Basic human emotion.

The bad decision was to start the pursuit when it endangered innocent civilians over a stolen car that they knew was not a wanted violent criminal.

Have you watched the dash cam vid?

I was replying to the post where he said they KNEW it was ONLY a stolen car. (speculation~)

The only speculation I did was that they didn't KNOW it was ONLY a stolen car. And that the guy would have run a cop down. Again, if you watch the dash cam, I think its an educated guess.

I'd like to read the 911 transcript.

Really? How about the bad decision was the kid stealing the truck. Or maybe when the father got the cops involved.

You ram a cop in his car, multiple times, you are going to eat some lead. **** that stupid douche. One less moron walking the Earth and taking up Oxygen.

Maybe he's just a kid that needs a hug.

Good to know that when a cop is aware of a stolen car......all he needs to do is not pursue.....you'll get him later.

I was talking about what the cops could have done differently, to not endanger innocent civilians.

The fault lies with the dumbass kid and his decisions, not the cops.

But, I'd rather not die because some kid goes on a joy ride and the cops chasing him blindsides me in an intersection.

Just pull over whenever you're done with the car and meet us down at the police station.

I don't need to give an explanation as to why.

This is just flat out wrong. Cop kills the kid, this is murder. He will get away with it because he is an authority figure and can pull that type of shit. This is what bothers me. Its wrong he didn't have to take the kids life over such a minor issue.

The kid was stupid for refusing to not obey the officer, but did he really have to kill him? Why not just wrestle him down to the ground and arrest him?

*Something should happen to the cop because he committed murder. Protect and serve I understand but their should be conditions to that sort of stuff. It should only happen if that person is armed and the cop felt threatened and then I could understand the cop killing the kid out of the sake of self defense.
But this situation didn't exactly resemble that. Not to its full extent anyway.

He got it.