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

[CherokeeDem]

105. I have no problem with a sense of proportionality....

United States[edit]
January 1, 2015: A 43-year old man, Javier Suarez Rivera, was struck in his head and killed while watching fireworks with his family in SE Houston.[22][23]
July 4, 2013: A 7-year old boy, Brendon Mackey, was struck in the top of his head and killed while walking with his father shortly before 9 p.m. amid a large crowd prior to the fireworks display over the Swift Creek Reservoir.[24]
July 4, 2012: A 34-year woman, Michelle Packard, was struck in the head and killed while watching the fireworks with her family. The police believe the shot could have come from a mile away.[25]
January 1, 2010: A four-year-old boy, Marquel Peters, was struck by a bullet and killed inside his church The Church of God of Prophecy in Decatur, GA. It is presumed the bullet may have penetrated the roof of the church around 12:20AM.[26]
December 28, 2005: A 23-year-old U.S. Army private on leave after basic training fired a 9mm pistol into the air in celebration with friends, according to police, and one of the bullets came through a fifth-floor apartment window in the New York City borough of Queens, striking a 28-year-old mother of two in the eye. Her husband found her lifeless body moments later. The shooter had been drinking the night before and turned himself in to police the next morning when he heard the news. He was charged with second-degree manslaughter and weapons-related crimes,[27][28] and was later found guilty and sentenced to four to 12 years in prison.[29]
June 14, 1999: Arizona, A fourteen year-old girl, Shannon Smith, was struck on the top of her head by a bullet and killed while in the backyard of her home.[30] This incident resulted in Arizona enacting "Shannon's Law" in 2000, that made the discharge of a firearm into the air illegal[31]
December 31, 1994: Amy Silberman, a tourist from Boston, was killed by a falling bullet from celebratory firing while walking on the Riverwalk in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. The Police Department there has been striving to educate the public on the danger since then, frequently making arrests for firing into the air.[32]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire (Yes, I know it's Wiki)

Not impossible as you say... unlikely yes... but not impossible. These are examples of guns being fired in the air. (Most of these are not guns fired straight-up, but fired at an angle into the air, which would maintain enough velocity to kill.) Guns fired directly toward buildings and down streets are more likely to kill someone.

I find the actions of this police officer extreme but not uncalled for. If this man was shooting toward inhabited areas he needed to be stopped.

"You don't murder people when they did something that might kill someone 1 out of a million times." It is my understanding that the man was injured not killed, thankfully. I also wonder, when is the murder of one person not statistically important. It is where I come from....