Posted on 05/07/2023 1:49:32 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Two Oklahoma police officers are heroes after they rammed a suspect vehicle head on Saturday to prevent it from driving into weekend festival in Sallisaw.
Sallisaw Police Chief Terry Franklin said in a Facebook post that Captain John Weber and Officer Wesley McGuirt were working the town’s Diamond Daze festival on Saturday when they learned of a police pursuit heading directly toward the event.
“Captain Weber and Officer McGuirt were the last line of defense before the suspect vehicle would have entered the Diamond Daze event area,” Franklin wrote.
The officers decided they had no choice but to disable the speeding vehicle, and their only choice to do that was to drive into it.
The action prevented the vehicle “from entering the event which would have caused massive casualties,” the chief said.
Weber, the driver of the patrol vehicle, sustained a broken wrist in the crash, Franklin said, while McGuirt had cuts and bruises.
The Oklahoma Fraternal Order of Police said there were three people in the suspect vehicle which was “headed toward the area of the festival where hundreds of kids were enjoying themselves in and around the bounce house area.”
Weber, they noted, is the vice president of the state police union.
Neither organization provided more information about the suspects or the pursuit...
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Balls.
Common sense vehicle control.
Why 2 passengers?
Weber and McGuirt!
Perfect. Should be the name of a series or a movie or something...
BiXiden doesn’t drive the USA by himself.
So now the good cops will get sued.
I hope that the perp got his attitude adjusted.
Not very festive!
Are the “three people in the suspect vehicle” still stealing oxygen?!?
Maybe not
That town only votes 20% (D)
We need to know names, races, and immigration statuses. Is something going on?
That already provides us with a lot of information.
Definitely Indian Territory Cherokee
That is what I’d like to know!
Three Oklahoma men.
Immigration statuses might prove to be very important in the coming days.
Sigh. I’m old enough to remember a time when things you bought at the store weren’t sealed to prevent tampering/poisoning, when kids’ Halloween treats didn’t have to be X-rayed and when town festivals didn’t have to have large barricades erected so that crazed drivers don’t try to kill people.
What happened?
> We need to know names, races, and immigration statuses. <
You won’t get that. But don’t despair. They might tell you heights, shirt colors, and other important stuff instead.
Side story: A few years ago in my neck of the woods, a car hit a bicyclist then sped off. There were witnesses. The local evening news team described the driver. The description was very complete, even to the style of glasses he wore.
Except there was no mention of his race. I guess the news team just ran out of time.
OLD WEST JUSTICE
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