[FrankL]

Using just the newspaper article as my sole source, there may be some ramifications here that I find a little scary. The Supreme Court in April of this year basically allowed police officers to neutralize speeders who may be running from the law by running them off the road or upsetting their vehicle so that they will crash, even if they already know the license number of the vehicle and the only apparent danger to the public is speeding. The guy in the Supreme court case was a speeding teenager who sped away from the police after being caught speeding. His car was purposefully bumped and he crashed, resulting in quadraplegia. The police knowingly caused injury (and the great possibility of death) for speeding that they themselves were enabling by chasing him after knowing the vehicle license number.

I'm curious whether or not the police were going to injure him or upset his vehicle by driving toward him or in a manner to cause him harm or death? If so, I'm glad he escaped from his executioners and that the hangmen themselves may have gotten hurt. If I'm correct, then where are the level headed politicians (oxymoron?) who will stop unnecessary police chases where the speeding itself is engendered by the police? Clearly, this politician isn't one of them.

FrankL

Link to Supreme Court ruling.

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/06pdf/05-1631.pdf

Link to the Scott vs Harris case (case #37)where you can hear and see the police chase:

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/06slipopinion.html

 

[FrankL]

No, what I said is what the Supreme Court said. This is so easy I don't know what you are missing.

According to the Supreme Court, the act of speeding, especially away from police, where bystanders are in the area, intrinsically dangers the lives of these innocent bystanders and thereby police may use what I see as deadly force without violating the Fourth amendment.

What is obvious to me and to anyone with even a modi***** of common sense is that speeding per se is not necessarily dangerous and in no way should ever invoke a deadly response from cops. Got it now?



Frank