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The message that fleeing law enforcement in Arkansas is a poor idea apparently hasn’t reached everyone. Dashcam footage captured yet another suspect attempting to escape local officers before a state trooper intervened.
The trooper executed a PIT maneuver that brought the high-speed pursuit to a sudden halt near an interstate overpass. The footage underscores both the skill involved and the serious risks that come with trying to outrun police.
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I’m all for pulling over the bad guys (and you have to assume that they guy would not have fled if only a ticket was at stake). But that was a foolish thing–especially at night. The police blew through red lights where people going from right to left would have never seen the police lights in advance. Further, doing the PIT maneuver in a neighborhood is a great way to get innocent people killed or injured. And to do it on a bridge…well, while I’m sure it was not intentional to send the guy off the bridge, it was not well-thought out either.
You don’t kill or endanger people unless you know that letting that person go is going to do even worse damage. There would have been no high-speed chase if the police hadn’t made it one.
There’s probably no good answers either way, but pretty sure this wasn’t the right one in any case.