Too bad importing it here would cost more than the car itself.

Well those are the real questions now, aren't they—what injury, if any, did the officer suffer and does it constitute a serious injury within the meaning of the statute? Without knowing the answer to the first, we can't answer the second.

On the contrary, you guys sound like the kind of knee-jerk law-and-order types who place cops above the law.

You're flat wrong about the intent. The statutes are very specific about what the intent must be (intent to cause serious physical injury, intent to injure, intent to prevent an officer from discharging his/her duty). If that specific intent cannot be established, he cannot be convicted of violating the particular…

Why are you citing general propositions from pseudo-legal websites when others have quoted actual New York statutes? Ultimately, that's the only thing that matters in this case.

Yep, I'm paying attention to my own posts. Common-law assault always required intent, either to cause a battery or to cause the victim to apprehend an imminent battery, and to have the apparent ability to carry it out. Criminal statutes defining assault have modified the common-law rule, but generally still require…

No...it's just a less serious crime. Notice how InitialDave quoted the definition of *second-degree* assault? That should have been your first clue that there are different degrees of assualt, based on the seriousness of the wrongdoer's conduct, the amount of injury, etc. Not surprisingly, these various degrees of…

Running his guitar through these effects pedals...

murder = (maybe) barely running over somebody's toe? Shit, we might as well try to get the death penalty for this Ferrari guy!

Maybe, but historically (at least as far back as the late '90s), Cunningham and the Realtime Acuras have done very well in World Challenge. And the SCCA has a pretty good track record of poorly executed rulemaking in their quest to achieve parity among diverse cars, while turning a deaf ear to those drivers and team…

My point about relative levels of pain was just to refute the unfounded supposition that being run over by the 458's tire would "hurt a whole lot more" than a generic family car.

Singing a revamped version of Seger's "Like a Rock," with the lyrics changed to "Like a Boss," of course. It'd be a big ole' middle finger to Chevy, no?

If only it were a mid-'80s Rapid...

Maybe Ford should create a special Hugo Boss edition Boss 302. Tony Danza could appear in the commercials (along with some stock footage of Sorrell Booke).

The Fourth Amendment applies any time a person is seized, and thus it a cop's responsibility to make sure any seizure is "reasonable," as defined by decades of case law.

Well, that's a new one on me—the idea that somebody could assault another in the absence of intent to do so. But then, I don't practice in New York and admittedly am not familiar with the Penal Code. Also, that definition of second-degree "assault" sounds more like a definition of battery, but whatever, no need to…

Do you know that for a fact that he wasn't faking? Neither of us were there, so neither of us know what really happened, but I will say this: he had no problem extracting his foot from under the tire that was supposedly on top of it. And the limp didn't start until later, when he realized he was being filmed. …

Nope, even criminals are protected by the Fourth Amendment.

Yep. Cop fakes foot injury, punches car, and proceeds to "tune up" the driver. Lucky they didn't fuck his car up, too. Move along, nothing to see here...

I hope you're right—I hope all this "the cops were in the right" BS in the comments is just vindictiveness because it's a young, cardigan-wearing guy who may (or may not) be a douchebag, and not because people actually believe that cops have the right to deal with people this way on a regular basis. Because if people…