Comments on: Court Sides With Cops On High-Speed Chase

Supreme Court Rejects Arguments Of Man Paralyzed in Crash Stemming From Police Pursuit

[booyaw_77]

The supreme court is hacked. Its been hacked by rove and right wing lunatics. They couldn't get a slam dunk right.

[susanhelit]

Don't want to get hit with a PIT, or other manuever from the police? Don't run from them! Don't risk my life, the officer's life, and your life, just to get out of a traffic ticket - or maybe and quite often an arrest for drugs, DUI, or whatever. None of it is worth risking someone else's life over, and every time a criminal runs, that is precisely what they are doing.

The Supreme Court, and 8 of it's judges got it exactly right - when a chase turns dangerous (as they often are), the police have not only a right, but a responsibility to the public to end it - and doing so by PIT manuever, or bashing the criminals car off the road is just fine. Don't want to end up paralyzed? Don't run at 100 miles an hour. If this guy was driving slower, under control, not dangerously, he'd have been fine, and the police wouldn't have had any license to hit his car - we've all seen the hour long chases that can happen when someone drives reasonably.

But when you are driving dangerously, the police have to get you off the road - gently if you'll allow them, not gently if not. Better they hurt you than the innocent bystander you're going to smash into.

[booyaw_77]

Lets find out if dat cop is wear'n his seatbelt.

[booyaw_77]

Is this the same siren going off? A cop going 90 mph to go to a imus apology? Is that the same guy behind me? Chase'n me?

[olebd]

Hooray for the law. The streets are full enough with incompetent drivers. The last thing we need is some ****** who has a warrant or something to hide stashed in his car endangering the lves of everybody else.

[warfire911]

Why don't we just give the police rocket propelled grenades to stop speeders. Then we could give rpg's to bystanders so they can shoot the speeding cops too. We too, should assume the worst, this rogue cop is armed and dangerous, I better run from or subdue him. Police are an arm of the government. Maybe we should toy with that constitution thingy, perhaps some kind of language that says the government cannot assume a person is guilty of criminal activities without some sort of evidence. Because if we had that, the police would have no justification for continuing chase and imposing corporal punishment without due process.

[r-u-kidding]

Good. I'm glad somebody finally stood up for the police. Hopefully people will now think twice before running away from police officers knowing that they won't give up.

Now if George Bush would just pardon the border patrol officers jailed for shooting a drug runner. I can't believe our government prosecuted our own guys for shooting an illegal alien drug runner....that's the real crime.

[lawandorder6]

Another one for the BAD GUYS. The Court has lost all sense of right and wrong. Thye Cops will be coming in and eating your dinner before long. I never have been for guns, but that might have to change with this kind of thing going on.

[undermyboot]

SusanHelit says the police are trying to save innocent lives? LMFAO They are trying to get their arrest rates up and get promoted. They don't give a d*mn about innocent lives.

READ THE F-ING ARRTICLE! It's not just about the fool who fled the police. Now the Supremes have said that the police can do what they want, and if it kills "INNOCENT BYSTANDERS" that's OK with them. Well I hope YOU or someone YOU LOVE are standing at a street corner one day when one of these ignorant thugs (the ones with badges) comes racing around the corner and flattens YOU or THEM. Your family will be glad to know that action was sanctioned by the government. You "law and order and any cost" people make me sick. SPLAT.

[inventagod2]

The censors at SeeB.S. want you to respect our little ***tator...

[susanhelit]

Heh - the police dashcams have been great - they show the allegations of police brutality often to be completely false - and catch the few bad cops. They also do a great job of showing what police really put up with from criminals.

There are some bad cops - just like there are some bad everyone else-s. That doesn't change the facts here, nor in the vast majority of all other cases.

[bizzzz-2009]

For every complaint you hear about a "bad cop" using unacceptable brutality to subdue a criminal, there's another good cop somewhere that just got shot in the head because he didn't react quick enough.
It getting to be a lose/lose situation for police officers. When they respond with force, their criticized, when they don't show up, their criticized. I got an idea, police your own neighborhoods if you think it's so easy. You won't because the criminals in your neighborhood scare the s**t out of you, but you demand somebody do it.

[undermyboot]

Trust the cowboy thugs who wear badges! After all, they are well educated and have a history of good judgement! Dey gots da GEDs and da experience as High School bullies (before being expelled). Until we lasso in these power-mad goons the USA will forever be a Police State. Every cop should have a camera and microphone attached to their heads to record every action and every word spoken. Surveil the police, not the people.

[susanhelit]

Harris was no innocent - he was paralyzed while being a criminal. He took risks that could have killed many people, just to avoid a stupid ticket! That's insanely depraved indifference to innocent lives there! Do you even think of that?

How many innocent human lives do you think avoiding a ticket is worth? I think that anyone who thinks that way needs to be in jail for a very long time. He's running through parking lots - if your child, or you, happens to be in the wrong spot, you'd have been run down by him, because he's trying to drive places the police won't go at unsafe speeds they won't drive at because unlike Harris, the police are trying to save innocent lives!

[undermyboot]

You cannot write "DlCK" on CBS? How will the idiots who run this thing self-identify without "DlCK". Or are you not allowed to mention the Vice President's first name? Shhhh! It's a secret! The FBI will get you! LMAO

[susanhelit]

Criminals don't stop running just because the police stop chasing. We've seen that plenty of times. Putting an end to the chase - that's what saves the innocent bystander from harm, not letting criminals run free if they are willing to drive crazy.

8 to 1 - that's a huge, huge margin. Conservative and moderate and liberal justices alike - they can see the issue here, and they agree with the police. The blame for all the damage is on the criminal who runs, no one else.

[undermyboot]

Great- "innocent bystanders" can now be run over with impunity by cowboy hoodlums with badges. LMFAO. Welcome to the American Police State brought to you by the Supreme Court and *** Cheney. Enjoy your stay you pu**ys.

[chuckabn]

Hmmm, ran from the police and ended up paralyzed. Guess the lesson should be DON'T BREAK THE LAW and RUN FROM POLICE!!!!! The officer was simply trying to end the chase, thusly protecting innocent bystanders. This criminal chose to run and has to live with the consequences of his actions. At least he didn't paralyze some innocent child or kill someone going ninety miles per hour. The officer should be commended for risking his life to protect the citizenry. Same, same for the Border Patrol agents who ridiculously are serving time for wounding an illegal immigrant drug dealer. Law enforcement should adhere to high standards and rules of law, but NOT punished for doing their jobs to protect and serve.

I really don't know what goes through someones heaed, out running the police? You can't out run Motorola!!

[goldesprit]

read this excerpt:
"A police officer's attempt to terminate a dangerous high-speed car chase that threatens the lives of innocent bystanders..."

If the police officer had pulled off the road, THAT is an "attempt to terminate" the (leathal to bystanders)chase.

Sure, if the policeman did that it would be not a violation.

This was an escalation of the chase.

CBS and the "Judge" that made the above spun comment know this only too well.

That language serves to cloud the issue for further judgement and discussion.

THAT is no (pardon the pun)"accident".

Nor will the repercussiions in other cases, when the statement is used to cloud those "accidents".

Parylizing innocent people is a warlike thing to do--there must be several thousand better ways to go.