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My wife was in Indianapolis for a couple days and she saw the same thing: a cop crossed over to the wrong side of the road and up onto the sidewalk to strike an
by fallingfrog 6y ago
My wife was in Indianapolis for a couple days and she saw the same thing: a cop crossed over to the wrong side of the road and up onto the sidewalk to strike an unarmed black man on a bicycle head on. They claimed later that the man on the bike had struck the car while it was sitting still (hard enough to put him in the hospital with a fractured skull). No investigation was made. I think they do this because running people over or choking them to death produces less paperwork than shooting them.
- pnutjam 6y agoMost Officer on the job injury and death comes from traffic accidents. Driving all day is dangerous. We should log Police Officer hours the same way we do truck drivers.
- blakesterz 6y agoI thought "accident" when I read that comment first, but on reading it again: "sidewalk to strike an unarmed black man on a bicycle head on." So... "to strike" this wasn't an accident?
- fallingfrog 6y agoNot an accident. He waited for the guy on the bike to come around a corner, then gunned the gas hard, crossed over the double solid line and drove up onto the sidewalk to hit the guy.
- renewiltord 6y agoIn San Francisco, I've seen so many occasions where police and fire (not the fire truck, the little cars) do the "lights and full speed" for really no reason. Or screaming high speed U turns just for the heck of it. Honestly, I'm somewhat sure that this is just considered a perk of the job since it lets them ignore road rules.
- distant_hat 6y agoI had a cop friend who told me he lived for high speed chases. Interestingly he died of an illicitly procured opioid overdose at 46.