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Traffic stop -- possible world record
Video here. A traffic stop for speeding turns into not one but two chases, assault on an officer, attempts to smash the windows, shots fired at a van full of kids (and down a highway).
The only good news is (1) the attempt to pull the driver out of the van failed, so she and the officer did not wind up laying on the highway and being smushed by a passing 18 wheeler, and (2) the officer firing was a bad enough shot that he missed the van, the family, and everyone else.
My guess: when the officer pulled her over the first time, he didn't have his clipboard with him, so he walked back to his car. She may have interpreted that as the stop was finished, so she drives away. She does stop the second time, after all. But on the second stop, everything goes insane, so she drives away and doesn't stop until she gets to her hotel.
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I hope she called 911 and reported a number of crazed individuals in cop uniforms chasing her. Those guys seriously needed to chill out, and the one who opened fire on the van should be fired (and never work as a PO again).
Hartley has it.
"Driving through New Mexico" (aka "terminal stupidity") is a capital felony there.
Once she fled the initial stop, it moved from a traffic citation to a felony. Once she pulled away from the officer, it was resisting arrest. Once her son joined the fray, it reached the level where the cop would have been legally justified in the use of lethal force. The shots at the tires may or may not be within the use of force policy for the state or department.
The initial cop failed to use enough force early enough to contain the situation, he should not have let her get away from him at the back of the van, I think he got in trouble because he was trying to be nice.
No way is the officer justified in shooting at that van. What an idiot. The woman, yes, she is an idiot as well.