Cop on car

[bobsyouruncle]

 

[Paul B]

He should have shot the perp.
Paul B.

 

[PRichardson87]

What an idiot, trying to be Bruce Willis 🙄

 

[DGW1949]

Looks like a lesson on 'what not to do' to me. He is lucky the driver didn't slam on his brakes and sling him into the train.....what an idiot.

DGW

 

[Al James]

I've heard that left handed people use the other side of their brain. This particular leftie appears to not use either side.

 

[Watertender]

This happens more often than you might think. There was a Sheriff's Deputy who was dragged by a shoplifter that grabbed him through the open drivers window and sped off. If I remember correctly the vehicle was speeding on the wrong side of the street at 75mph before the Deputy shot the guy to stop him. The Deputy was cleared by the grand jury as a justifiable shooting

 

[kmoore]

There is a court case many years old. I cannot remember that case name or its exact wording, but it's something like this. You cannot create your own peril and then use deadly force.
Watching the video, he created his own need to use or justify deadly force by climbing into the hood.
If the officer was justified to use deadly force before he stood in front of the car or climbed into the hood, then that case would not apply. We don't have enough information to believe if deadly force was lawful at the moment before he stepped in front of the car. Either way its tactically stupid to step in front of a vehicle that could run you over, unless you can shoot before stepping in front. If so, shoot until the threat stops.

 

[Rat76]

Between 1:18 & 1:19 something fell off & went spinning.

It goes without saying this is one of the dumbest things I've seen.

 

[Dave P.]

I wonder at what point the cop decided maybe this ride wasn't my brightest idea, maybe when he found out the driver
wasn't responding to his "authoritative voice", wasn't impressed by the gun pointed at him, or maybe later as he was tossed
into the ditch?
Not a shining example of police work.

 

[Cholo]

That barking at the perp sure did a lot of good. That was one dumba** cop who did literally everything wrong. He should have been fired for poor judgement.

 

[bobsyouruncle]

That cop saved his community millions of dollars and likely avoided prison for himself, he probably will have to pay for damage to the guys car.

 

[hittman]

The cop got a broken back but was back to work in a few weeks.
The perp got something like 2 years if I remember correctly.
This was featured on the TV show On Patrol recently.

 

[tazbigdog]

Having taught Defensive Tactics and Firearms training in the academy. This cop should be fired. Pulling your gun up and demanding that the person should comply is not taught. Climbing on the car and pointing the gun through glass, while yelling is not taught.

Get the f down, and out of the way of that 2 ton vehicle. Stupid tactics. I’d like to know if he learned that from the academy, his FTO, his buddies, or TV.

 

[Dave P.]

I think in the video he said the guy had a warrant for forgery, doesn't seem like that calls for the theatrics this entailed.
He did show an initial enthusiastic attitude toward the job and his stupid attack didn't manage to kill him so there's
something good to take from this.

 

[contender]

I would have shot the car's engine with multiple rounds to disable the car,, BEFORE doing a stupid thing like getting on the car.
Maybe while in front of it,, shoot the radiator area etc. Car won't go far without fluids.

 

[kmoore]

I was once in a pursuit with a stolen Toyota pickup. When stream begin to pour out from under the hood. I thought this will be over shortly. That 20 something year old pickup traveled about 20 miles as fast as the little truck could before coasting to a stop. Wouldn't have believed it until it happened.

 

[Dave P.]

As intermission " entertainment " a local dirt track used to take junk cars and drain all the oil and
coolant, jam the gas pedal to the floor and let them run till they died. You'd be amazed how
long some of those ran.

 

[bobsyouruncle]

lots of people ride on cars