Comment by RickJWagner
6 days ago
The point is not to stop the car. The point is to stop the driver, because that person is obviously willing to kill someone using the car as a weapon. That person should be stopped ASAP.
The cited articles include charges of murder, highlighting that point.
Err, your claim is that Renee Good was about to go on a Carmageddon-style killing spree and the ICE agent was concerned not for his own safety but for the safety of the general public? There are three key problems with this analysis:
1) It is utterly ludicrous considered in itself, going beyond even what MAGA’s lunatic fringe has dared to suggest.
2) It undermines the only possible legal defense the officer might theoretically have had (self defense).
3) Even waiving the outrageous absurdity of what you’re saying and your various insults to the reader’s intelligence, shooting the driver just means that the car is almost certain to crash into something (as indeed happened here), which creates more danger to the general public, not less.