Over traffic stop, Wisconsin cops chase vehicle into wreck killing two kids
Over traffic stop, Wisconsin cops chase vehicle into wreck killing two kids
Two 10-year-old boys were killed in a rollover wreck after the driver of their vehicle fled a traffic stop and crashed following a police pursuit, authorities said.
… Waukesha County Sheriff Eric Severson called the crash "horrific" but "preventable."
"The fact that two children lost their lives this morning as the result of really bad decision-making is very saddening to all of us," he said. …
... The preliminary information shows that the sheriff's deputies involved did not violate any laws and "did their job right," he said. …
Maybe don't engage in pursuits.
This is a terrible tragedy, but the responsibility for it lies with the driver and not the police. The fact is that the police tried to pull over someone with a warrant for arrest and he fled and caused the crash. I don't think it reasonable to say the officers acted inappropriately, unless you think that a gun wielding felons should be left alone by police.
Car chases are bad. Not because people with warrants should go free, but because it puts me needlessly at risk.
We spend a ridiculous amount of money on our police. You're telling me that they can't invest in a GPS tracker to stick to cars at the start of a traffic stop, or a drone to follow someone silently until they stop on their own? It's just about 2024. Surely the Dukes of Hazard style chase is outdated.
Yours is a bullshit response, basically a lie.
The cops didn't know who the driver was, and chased the car solely because the driver drive away — not because he was "a gun wielding felon," which they didn't know at the time.
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