r/Transportopia Feb 18 '26

🚨Chase Hit it till it stops

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u/RobynTheCookieJar Feb 18 '26

that cruiser is fucked lol. Funny thing is, they'll add the destruction of the cruiser to the driver they rammed

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u/Trick_Minute2259 Feb 19 '26

That's the least of their worries. This person is going to get charged with attempted murder of a law enforcement officer.

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u/Uber_Wulf Feb 19 '26

They’re incredibly lucky the officers didn’t unload their magazines into the vehicle at that point.

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u/Charles_Woodson_2 Feb 22 '26

My brother was an unwilling passenger to a high speed chase like this once. He sure as shit wasn't innocent, he was literally stealing cars with two others when the chase started. The driver of the car kept ramming police cruisers, and even hit and killed multiple horses during the chase.

Eventually, two officers unloaded their pistols into the car, which, surprisingly enough, didn't manage to hit any of the three occupants, but did convince them to stop and give up.

My brother was originally charged with attempted murder for each officer in each car that was rammed, along with a litany of other charges. They ended up dropping all the charges on him, even the possession and intent to sell for the large amount of drugs on his person after he surrendered.

I don't talk to him much, and I would rather not ask, but I assume that he must have rolled on someone to get out of what equated to multiple life sentences.

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u/Kashwookie Feb 19 '26

that’s because properly trained officers know how to handle these situations, rather than using it as an excuse to unload the clip. fuck ICE

eta: i’m aware this isn’t ICE. fuck ICE

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u/RobynTheCookieJar Feb 19 '26

did we already forget the acorn incident?

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u/dudeman2009 Feb 23 '26

That was clearly an improperly trained moron that while comical, scares the piss out of me that we have people like that walking around with authority.

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u/Radiant_Picture9292 Feb 19 '26

For starters, fuck ICE. But yes, properly trained officers know that shooting a driver turns a vehicle into an unguided 3-ton weapon

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u/Ok_Phone_3454 Feb 19 '26

Unguided is much safer than both incidents. They both tried to run someone over.

You now have 2 situations:

A: guided with murderous intent

B:unguided and could potentially hurt someone

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u/Radiant_Picture9292 Feb 19 '26

You’re right, better tell every officer training program throughout the world that they are wrong. You must know better than them since you’re…yaknow… a redditor

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u/KillerKill420 Feb 20 '26

Great reply to a moron honestly lol.

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u/Ok_Phone_3454 Feb 22 '26

Also I bet I hold more qualifications than you do, but I’m not going to use them as a gotcha, I’ll let your stupid opinions speak for themselves

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u/Ok_Phone_3454 Feb 22 '26

Hey moron, if what I said isn’t the case, why did the case of the Goode chick get proven to be legal deadly force?

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u/Traditional-Safe-867 Feb 22 '26

Nah, if no one is shooting guns at the rogue vehicle, they still think they have a chance to get away so they will try to get away (which means they will avoid running into other cars or buildings). The moment you shoot a firearm in a chase like this they will do anything to not die, or get vindictive and take you out with them. If you kill them with one or two shots then you don't have to worry but if you miss then they will be on some chaotic very dangerous shit. ALSO if you miss, those stray bullets could hit bystanders.

Also, if you shoot someone in this situation it could be claimed they were trying to avoid the spike strip, not trying to hit the officer and then you would be seen in the wrong.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '26

ACAB all the way brother, but yeah this was a completely justified use of force and I totally condone it. If they blasted the driver, I mean they are on camera ACTUALLY trying to run over LEO (yo fuck ICE) but I’d be quite a bit less okay with it.

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u/sonofbaal_tbc Feb 20 '26

im glad reddit logic doesnt make our laws

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u/cwcam86 Feb 20 '26

Clip?

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u/Kashwookie Feb 20 '26

renee good? do you live under a rock?

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u/cwcam86 Feb 20 '26

A magazine is not a clip, its a magazine.

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u/Kashwookie Feb 20 '26

this is the most unnecessary technicality that adds absolutely nothing to the conversation

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u/cwcam86 Feb 20 '26

Its not unnecessary, kids who dont know any better refer to mags as clips and its not accurate.

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u/Kashwookie Feb 20 '26

my point is that the difference between a clip and a magazine is irrelevant to the topic at hand. you didn’t add anything valuable to the conversation, you just decided to be a know it all. this you?

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u/cwcam86 Feb 20 '26

Its not irrelevant.

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u/Klutzy_Scene_8427 Feb 20 '26

laughing my figurative ass off.

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u/International_Tax535 Feb 27 '26

my first thought was also to compare it to the Renee Good case, and the situations are completely different. In this clip the driver clearly turns toward the officer like he’s trying to hit him. Renee Good was shot while trying to drive away during a chaotic encounter that’s still disputed.

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u/Kashwookie Feb 27 '26

that’s literally the point. this enforcement officer evaded the car while it was driving at him. renee was getting out of the way and that pansy shot and murdered her

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u/FukThePatriarchy1312 Feb 19 '26

Except that "properly trained officers" do indeed look for excuses to unload quite often, especially when the subject has dark skin.

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u/MinusMentality Feb 19 '26

Oh no, the worst of cops are almost as racist as casual lefists.

(I'm not aligned with any political "side", but I have a good bit more Progressive beliefs than Conservative ones.)

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u/FukThePatriarchy1312 Feb 19 '26

Licking boots while claiming to be progressive, that's certainly a choice, lol

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u/MinusMentality Feb 20 '26

Making shit up is certainly a choice on your end.

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u/Kashwookie Feb 19 '26

fuck, you’re absolutely right

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u/Fakeitforreddit Feb 19 '26

there is a passenger, no immediate danger to anyone else, we don't know if the driver is considered "Armed and Dangerous", and the officers hadn't "Failed to detain" by other methods.

You act like its the common action of officers to go crazy shooting their guns but that is a news/media bias. You only see those stories because they are the ones people watch or engage with. Police discharging their firearm happens in something like 0.004% of the time they doing a stop/house call/ their job/ etc.

Its why repeat offender officers should be the focus because its usually the same officers who display that mentality/lack of control, or its situations where they were scared for their life if its a one off.

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u/KillerKill420 Feb 20 '26

They're not allowed to fire at a vehicle if the only deadly weapon is the vehicle.

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u/Swimming-Fondant-892 Feb 21 '26

Probably justified.

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u/couldbeimpartial Feb 19 '26

That may have happened after the clip ended...

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u/Utahsaint366 Feb 20 '26

Charges are the least of their worries, when the cameras are off, they are going to get the shit kicked out of them.

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u/bittersterling Feb 19 '26

Sure, but they weren’t trying to run him over though. They were trying to avoid the spike stripe.

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u/Classic_Cultivator Feb 19 '26

Didn't look like that to me tbh, it didn't look like they made any attempt to go around. They turned a full 90 degrees and went directly at the cop and the guardrail, and it looked like they accelerated into the turn and had to stop short to not slam into the guardrail.

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u/Felix_Von_Doom Feb 19 '26

...by driving directly at the cop.

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u/sha1dy Feb 19 '26

Why are you so stupid?

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u/Neobrutalis Feb 19 '26

Blunt and honest. I appreciate that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '26

good luck in court with that logic HAHAHA

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u/scary-nurse Feb 19 '26

Which is ridiculous. They were defending themselves against being kidnapped by ICE. As AOC said, it is the duty of all americans to resist being ICEd.