State Cop Shoots at Minivan Full of Kids

[Lurks Often]

49. The police officer who fired the three shots should fired and charged

The mother is going to jail for escalating a minor traffic stop into a felony charge(s), which could be any or all of the following: evading police, resisting arrest, endangering children and reckless driving. Her son is going to spend time in a juvenile facility for assault on a police officer, which is also felony.

71 is a 55 zone is certainly a valid reason for a traffic stop and the only officer's response that I found to be excessive force was the officer who pulled his gun and fired at the minivan. The officer who initiated the traffic stop never pulled his firearm, only the taser, a valid response when confronted by potentially at least 2 attackers, the mother and the son, who was almost the same size as the officer.

As for those who said just follow her, not only are you risking the lives of everyone in the mini-van, but everybody else on the road and the police officers in pursuit. Given the mother's response to a simple ticket and her driving recklessly later in the tape, there is no reason to believe she was NOT endangering other people on the roads.