All for a shirt and a couple of belts. Wonder what they would have done if he’d killed someone? Blown up the entire neighborhood??
I’m against high speed pursuit for much the same reasons. The risk to pedestrians to satisfy the hormone rush of a cop, isnt worth it. Especially now with all the tech available to just get the perp later when emotions have calmed.
“All for a shirt and a couple of belts. Wonder what they would have done if he’d killed someone? “
I am sure that was on the cops mind after he started shooting at them.
Nuked the whole town.
The 18 hour standoff was not about busting a shoplifter but getting an armed and dangerous man off the streets.....the guy was high on methamphetamine the entire time.... ‘ran from police’ and drove straight at an officer chasing after him on foot.....additionally he fired a shot at officers he saw outside...once the officers were inside the guy shot at police. They did not return fire.
The guy’s facing a long list of charges including attempted murder of a police officer.
I wonder what they would have done if he didn't turn in his banned firearm?
Yet FReepers say that most will be on our side if the country goes full civil war...…
More about him being armed and holed up in a house he broke into.
Getting after him was legit. But he was no longer a mere “shoplifter” by the time of the standoff. He was in someones house, armed. You can’t leave him. The effort seems unusually destructive, but they probably needed to do some serious damage to root him out of there and not get some cops killed in the process.
It isn’t always like on TV where a sassy detective leads a swat team in the door and it ends with a confession and a snarky response.
Lucky the ATF and FBI didn’t get involved they may have burned the entire neighborhood down!