Michigan police defend 107 mph fatal chase that started over expired tabs
Michigan police defend 107 mph fatal chase that started over expired tabs
Warren’s police commissioner defended his department’s decision to pursue a fleeing vehicle for nearly three minutes the day after Christmas, ending in the 24-year-old suspect’s death.
The greatest irony of these high speed chases is they’re consistently the second highest cause of on the job deaths for police officers, every year.
They’re often dangerous to the public at large, the ones being chased, and the cops themselves. And yet LEOs bellyache about ‘no-chase’ policies until they get watered down.
41And the fact that construction, transportation/material moving, and farm/fish/forestry workers all have fatal work injury rates higher than law enforcement.
Want more evidence cops are pussies? You know those viral videos where cops throw themselves to the ground because they’re dying of fentanyl exposure and 5 guys stick him with narcan?
It’s all fake. They’re literally pretending. That’s not even how fentanyl exposure works.
500 cops with body armor and long rifles were too scared to challenge one guy with a pistol in Uvalde. They can be beaten.
27Just remember, 1/40~ deaths of all firearm deaths in the USA (including suicide) are from cops. They literally shoot and kill around 1,000 us citizens every single year.
9Can’t even make them fill out a single page form to report a crime to a central federal database. Cause you know, maybe maintaining crime statistics could be useful?
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Which one are you referring to as the second highest cause of death just automobile accidents?
1on the job
Key point there. COVID and other likely preventable deaths from illness that may/not be job related, do cause a sizable number. But that’s not during the job in the same way the Department of Labor counts ‘on the job’ injuries, unless directly linked like asbestos or radiation exposure.
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as fast as 107 miles per hour on the chase, more than twice the posted speed limit on 10 Mile Road.
The speed limit on 10 mile in Warren is 40-45 mp/h. Make of that what you will.
“Did you see anywhere in that video where someone’s life was in danger?” he asked. “Obviously, that was the case because this man is dead,” replied Jones. “Did you see anyone that he possibly was going to hit?” Dwyer asked. “I didn’t see anything.”, “He ran into a truck,” Jones said, referring to Kelley.
lmao.
35It's just infuriating how they refuse to admit wrongdoing in such obvious examples of it as this. That kid died because he had expired tags on his license plate and he was afraid of being arrested for an expired license.
That's it. That's nothing. That's negligent manslaughter and reckless driving at best on the part of the cop.
24The are cases where pursuit is warranted, but cops are so stupid and lacking in human decency and common sense they can't be trusted even with an obvious 'judgment call' like in this case. Dude won't pull over for expired tabs, they'll chase him to death and hoist a few beers afterward telling themselves they're heroic.
16Did you watch the video? He did it all to himself. The police weren't even tailing him that closely when the collision occurred.
-4That kid died because he had expired tags on his license plate
That “kid” was 24 years old.
Edit: kept reading
Kelley was not wanted for a felony, but officers would later learn he did have a warrant for a traffic offense, a misdemeanor. After the crash — where Kelley died at the scene — police recovered a stolen handgun in his vehicle.
Provides a little more context for why the guy fled. Turns out, not just expired tags as most here would like you to believe.
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He wasn’t running because of just expired tags. He was running because he knew he had a warrant, a stolen gun, and an expired license.
People are blaming the cops for this, but this guy ran because he knew he was potentially in some serious shit, not because of tags, and he put other lives in danger because he’s an idiot.
Did he deserve to die? No. But the reason he ran was because he had a reason to run, not overreacting to a minor infraction.
ACAB, but this guy was a fucking moron.
10I like your nuance
2Well gee, sounds like the cause of all of this is the police then. Maybe they shouldn't be working too make everyone so goddamn afraid of them!!! Fucking dogs chase because thing runs.
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