Cop pulls out gun on motorcyclist

[Toaster]

How many others out there get the 5th sense, and realise shortly after that it was divine

The only other sense I get is the urge to pee.

[toycollector10]

What happens next if the "offender" flees. Is it a shoot to kill situation? Is it a capital offence to run, without the right to trial by jury.

"He was fleeing the traffic stop your honour, so I popped a cap in his arse and two in his lungs just to stop him. He's now dead, of course"

Total madness, no wonder they're all going to hell in a handcart.

I think in New Zealand the cops will only present a weapon if they intend to use it. And rightly so. If you're not prepared to pull the trigger leave in out of the situation.

[spacemonkey]

Not the first nor the last of this sort of thing over there..... Check this one out.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publics...tasers/1112106

Love the comments on the bottom of the story.
Lots of folks over there seem to feel that killing someone who fails to stop is a perfectly acceptable response.

I completely agree. Shoot first, taser second. Stop being a dirtball fleeing felon

He refused to stop when it was requested by the police. Therefore he was a criminal. If he would have stopped he would still be alive. It seems to me it is nobody's fault but his own.

It seems to me that had all of these people not been CRIMINALS they would be alive. Not one ounce of pity from me.

*shudder* what a great place to live.... Not!

[scumdog]

Not the first nor the last of this sort of thing over there..... Check this one out.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publics...tasers/1112106

Love the comments on the bottom of the story.
Lots of folks over there seem to feel that killing someone who fails to stop is a perfectly acceptable response.




*shudder* what a great place to live.... Not!

Well for me so far (in Carson City, Nevada at the mo) I have had a good run - polite, helpful people here and so courteous with their driving habits, seeing that kind of driving makes me realise how immature/inconsiderate most Kiwi drivers really are.

Haven't seen anywhere near as much foul-mouthing in public and no tizzy-fits being thrown in bars, on the road etc.

And I see so much stuff that seems common sense that I wonder why it has not been implemented in NZ.


NZ only has a slight amount more going for it than does the USA I.M.H.O.

[p.dath]

So at the beginning of the video isn't that the cop we hear over a loud haler from his car ordering the motorcyclist to pull over? And then the motorcylists continues on, at speed?

Although a gun was pulled, it does not look that threatening to me. However it's not my face that it was pulled on.


The more interesting bit is weather the video broke their wiretapping rules. This seems ludicrous to me. That would suggest you could not film somthing that you were aparty to - even when on public property.

Would this surely not make the filming of all movies on private land, such as in a movie studio in the US illegal now?

[avgas]

if someone jumps out of a car with a gun I would of thought the first thing to do would be to get the hell out of there.

Yeah I was thinking the same thing - but when you pause the last few seconds you realize there is an official cop car behind him so you would suspect something was legit about it.
But yeah - if there was a circumstance where some random guy jumped out of a car and pulls a gun I would try like hell to outrun bullets.
Fuck hanging around to get shot.

[The Pastor]

And everyone wants the cops to have guns >_>

[Patrick]

Yeah I was thinking the same thing - but when you pause the last few seconds you realize there is an official cop car behind him so you would suspect something was legit about it.
But yeah - if there was a circumstance where some random guy jumped out of a car and pulls a gun I would try like hell to outrun bullets.
Fuck hanging around to get shot.

KInda follow ya.... but bullets are so much faster than even the best and biggest FZR...?

[pyrocam]

I hear upsidedown forks would help with that.


I would guess its hard to hit a fast moving target, but if you have to drive past the shooter it reduces your chances. especially when they have had regular firearms training (although you wouldn't know that in this case)

[pyrocam]

if anyone was interested the charges against the biker for recording the cop doing this have been dropped
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/story...ropped_ag.html

sanity prevails!