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In reply to the discussion: Kentucky field party shooting: Teen Samantha Ramsey shot dead trying to avoid sobriety test [View all]Ed Suspicious
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Kentucky field party shooting: Teen Samantha Ramsey shot dead trying to avoid sobriety test [View all]
damnedifIknow
May 2014
OP
I am not saying a cop should never have a situation arise where he has to use his firearm
npk
May 2014
#23
Is it unmanly to be afraid of being hurt when someone is driving a car with you on the hood?
JVS
May 2014
#8
What kind of idiot jumps in front of moving vehicle and jumps on the hood of a moving car
npk
May 2014
#15
What was he doing on the hood instead of on the ground, writing down her license plate? n/t
pnwmom
May 2014
#25
She was drunk; he was a sober cop, presumably. If he jumped on the hood on purpose,
pnwmom
May 2014
#33
This is what happens with guns everywhere. Law enforcement is afraid too. they know everyone is
kelliekat44
May 2014
#48
I find it interesting that someone with an Al Sharpton avatar is making these posts
Scootaloo
May 2014
#81
If she wasn't stopping then she wasn't stopping with flashing lights behind her either
oneofthe99
May 2014
#16
All I have to go on is her actions of that night and a prior drunk driving conviction
oneofthe99
May 2014
#49
Oh yeah right. Because someone who won't keep still with a cop in front of them is certainly...
JVS
May 2014
#17
You want to say she wasn't drinking that's fine , if she was this is what she was facing
oneofthe99
May 2014
#58
we see the point he was at side of car, and she was moving forward slowly. he had time to jump on
seabeyond
May 2014
#47
He can legally chase the car and try to grab the wheel to stop it from fleeing
oneofthe99
May 2014
#35
that is what it looks like. she was moving slowly. he was on side of car. he had to jump on hood
seabeyond
May 2014
#50
fyi shooting out tires is movie shit, not as easy as it sounds. jumping on the hood of the car was
dionysus
May 2014
#77
I don't get this. Shooting tires: Herculean effort and near impossibility.
Ed Suspicious
May 2014
#104
i clearly stated the cop was dumber than the kid, and is therefore rightfully fucked by murdering
dionysus
May 2014
#105
no problem... i just happened to check DU before i started my next episode of a TV show...
dionysus
May 2014
#107
Sounds like that "field party" was a fucking mess with all sorts of drunk kids trying to
Brickbat
May 2014
#18
Yay cops. If they weren't there someone might have gotten hurt, or worse
Ed Suspicious
May 2014
#108
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struggle4progress
May 2014
#43
in the northeast, you *might* see a state trooper vehicle near a toll booth. the toll booths are not
dionysus
May 2014
#110
I am not going to look at the video, but why didn't he let her drive away, a get her later. He had
lostincalifornia
May 2014
#54
A high speed chase is maybe justified if they're in pursuit of a serial killer or a kidnapper
Hippo_Tron
May 2014
#73
A drunk driver in a high speed chase is even more likely to kill someone
muriel_volestrangler
May 2014
#86
Dashcam says: "I will mount your hood like a Falcon! If you don't stop, I will execute you. Done."
Bonx
May 2014
#62
Yup. He had to have made a conscious choice to toss himself at a moving vehicle there
Scootaloo
May 2014
#82
I will never hold a cop responsible for failing to jump on the hood of a moving car,
Ed Suspicious
May 2014
#109
Based on the video, it is impossible that he got on their hood without jumping onto it
Taitertots
May 2014
#101
Why, in complete disregard of anything I have ever witnessed, was He alone?
Half-Century Man
May 2014
#102