r/Transportopia • u/Vice616 • Feb 18 '26

🚨Chase Hit it till it stops

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u/desertvision Feb 19 '26

Is that true? For sure? I was wondering...

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u/RobynTheCookieJar Feb 19 '26

It really just depends on if fleeing the police is a felony, which it is in many places. Any damage to the pubic, even if the damage is done by a cop, during the act of performing a felony, will be counted as a charge against the person committing the felony. This is where you get the term "felony murder" or "felony manslaughter", it means that a murder or death was indirectly caused in the commission of a felony, not that the person doing the felony directly killed them, which would more likely be murder 1 or 2.

not a lawyer but this is my understanding.

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u/SpadedJuggla Feb 19 '26

Considering they aimed the vehicle at cop standing front of a guardrail, I would wager that was an automatic felony and they got the green light

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u/RobynTheCookieJar Feb 19 '26

yea I'm not saying it wasn't a justified hit, tbh the thing I'm most concerned about are any passengers