If the suspected offender was driving unsafely, it makes perfect sense to disable him and turn him and the vehicle into uncontrolled ballistic projectiles. Always works out.

If you throw a cooler at someone engaging in reckless driving of an ebike on a sidewalk and kill them you will be committing manslaughter, in the least. You seem to be in the 2 wrongs makes a right category.

So, we should kill every asshole that rides their ebike and electric scooter on the sidewalk?

Fun fact, “what ifs” aren’t enough for death penalties. It’s a tough standard for victim-blamers to grasp, but not killing people and letting our judicial system process criminals is the right way to do it.

“He was a drug dealer and a career criminal who was blasting down a crowded sidewalk in New York City on a motorcycle.”

Probably? No, he’s definitely a piece of shit. And another no, because it doesn’t matter who throws it, if you pick up a cooler filled with cans and bottles, and smash it on a guys head like you’re in the WWE, it’s murder. The sergeant was in civilian clothing too, so for all I care, he wasn’t even a cop at that…

You’re assuming he was a drug dealer and career criminal because that’s what the police are saying now that the guy was fucking killed. Dead bodies don’t tell on bad cops. The Sargant has had 17 complaints over his career and they had to settle a lawsuit against him 3 years ago. If anything, the cop is a career…

Crashing people turns them and their vehicles into uncontrolled missiles, so that only increased the danger to bystanders.  It could’ve been a person and not a tree that the guy was splattered against.

Drug dealer? Career criminal? Show your receipts, buddy. Right now all we have is a very thin cover story by the cops, who can’t/won’t tell what REALLY happened that led to this situation.

I’m not familiar with New York law, so maybe they have a law that makes “getting away” punishable by death.

Yes. It is well established that police cannot kill someone merely for running from them.

“Then he took a U-turn and was riding on the sidewalk. ... The cop then took my cooler, which was filled with soda cans, water bottles, and hit him.”

I wouldn’t be surprised if this isn’t so much a hack as it is yet another in a long line of people that Trump contracts out for work then refuses to pay.

Criminal record will likely be expunged when the kid turns 18, but the psychological damage will last the kid his entire life. These cops should lose their jobs.

The population of Senatobia, MS is about 8,500 people. Those officers had probably been bored out of their minds for a week straight.  Public urination is probably the highlight of their month.

UWB - Urinating while black.

It takes four police cars to respond to anything in my town, even pulling over a kid on a moped.

Juvenile records are sealed.  It won’t follow him to adult life.

Blah Blah Blah the kid is black and Im a cop, Blah Blah Blah

A survey 8 years ago found that 3% of Americans are gun-hoarders with 8-140 guns, making up a total 50% of all guns in the US. And there are a *lot* of guns in America. (Come to think of it, I probably qualify as one of those folks...)