Telegraph today -
In a live car chase broadcast on TV in Los Angeles police surrounded the car and unleashed a hail of bullets killing the 23 year old robbery suspect ( outside a school).
The TV stations apparently regularly broadcast chases because it pushes up ratings.
It is common for residents to line the streets and wave to cameras when a chase goes through their neighborhood.
Do those who advocate harsher penalties for Johnny Toerag want that happening here?
I think not.
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I haven't seen the pictures, but the police don't just fire on anyone without a reason (even in the USA).
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keep it to the motoring aspects please.
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helicopter,
I must keep it to motoring, as Mark correctly insists.
The Police driver, wherever, in a gun culture, is chasing a suspect car; in the US, you buy a gun as easily as you buy a pair of shoes....in the same shop!
The Cop is on the lower end of the pay scale,and has wife and kids and a mortgage and an old banger for a car.
The kids who steal cars with the hoods hiding thier faces have no respect for law or normal civilised standards of behavior...as in the UK increasingly?
I have not yet read the DT today so cannot comment on the details.
Question - should the Cop have asked him if he would do Community Service?
Matt35.
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Sorry, I fail to see how this thread can stay motoring related without law and order and political issues entering the fray. No criticism of the existing posts/contributors, but this will deteriorate into a bunfight.
I'm locking the thread.
No Dosh
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