Comment by RickJWagner
7 days ago
Here are several English cops run down with cars.
https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/...
https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/crime/simranjit-kajl...
https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2025-01-28/teen-charged-aft...
Your comments on these?
Additional examples of people assaulting British police officers using cars and not being shot.
Yes. It is harmful to the cops ( some die ) and beneficial to the perps ( who do not fear being shot ).
You are conceding the point that it is not in fact normal in other parts of the world for the police to shoot the driver as a means of avoiding being hit by the car. Doing so does not even make sense from a practical point of view. The car will most likely keep coming towards you anyway.
The incident you linked where the police officer sustained life threatening injuries (they didn’t die, as far as I can tell) seems to have been a collision between two cars caused by dangerous driving, so it’s not really a relevant example.
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