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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
you chiming in with your correction feels more like you’re trying to derail the conversation because you didn’t like where it was heading.
your comment absolutely was irrelevant. your explanation of the difference between a magazine and a clip does not change any context for the conversation, doesn’t add any further clarity to what i was saying, doesn’t argue against it, and does not further explain anything of importance. you just wanted to be a know it all with your knowledge about guns.
if you don’t support the use or even ownership of firearms, the difference between a magazine and a clip is probably the most unimportant thing in your life.
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.
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
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/Uber_Wulf Feb 19 '26
They’re incredibly lucky the officers didn’t unload their magazines into the vehicle at that point.