Cop Drives Right at Suspect, Runs Him Over in Disturbing Dash Cam Video

[TorchTheWitch]

156. shooting at him would have been too dangerous

That's why the officer chose to hit him with the car. He was much to far away to hit with bullets many of which would have missed and gone astray landing who knows where. Using the car was the safer option for other people at large. The moment the guy shot the gun he was an IMMEDIATE danger to the public, but the police couldn't shoot at him because he was too far away from them and had they shot at him it's inevitable that stray bullets would have gone flying who knows how far and where they would land. The officer in the car took it upon himself to immediately stop the guy by a means that was safer for everyone else though endangered and possibly injured himself... hitting anything at that speed is dangerous to the people in the car, and you can see that the windshield was bashed in and that he hit the guy at a high rate of speed.

I think that what the officer did who hit the guy with his car was heroic for doing the safest thing for others in the area including other officers knowing that what he was about to do was likely going to cause physical damage of some sort to his own self or maybe even kill his own self. Even with a seatbelt on it isn't likely that he was just fine after taking a hit like that. It doesn't take much speed when your car is hit or hits something to cause pysical damage to those in the car. When I was hit at a far less rate of speed and wearing my seatbelt at the time I still have neck, shoulder and back problems and likely always will though at the time I got out of the car under my own steam and thought I was fine.

Shooting at the guy was NOT the right thing to do at the distance they were from him which is why none of them DID shoot at him... they wouldn't be able to guarantee that all the bullets would hit him and none would go astray endangering others or that it wouldn't cause him to shoot his own loaded gun at them or anyone else.