RIOTS TODAY IN AKRON!

Eluding is defined in an Ohio statute titled Failure to Comply With Order or Signal of Police Officers (O.R.C. 2921.331). Under that law, “willfully” driving or running away from a traffic stop is prosecuted as a felony of the third degree when eluding poses a serious threat of injury or actually leads to injuries. A driver can also be charged and prosecuted for any traffic violations he or she commits while eluding police.

To secure a felony conviction on a felony eluding charge, police and prosecutors must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused driver understood that he or she should have stopped on account of seeing or hearing a clear signal. Whether a chase ensued and whether the accused driver violated additional traffic laws during the chase will also be a factor in determining if a driver gets convicted of committing a felony offense.

Conservatives have been trapped by the white/black division in to supporting the police state. I'm not for defunding the cops. But I am for retraining and the legalization of drugs. There's no other way. Most of this stems from the war on drugs

It's consistent. BLM supporters are often anti-semitic. Neo Nazi is a bit of a reach, but why not, Hitler was friendly to black people. He liked Jesse Owens a lot better than we did here.

Retraining? If I were a cop, I would not go into these interactions without the ability to use force, and the confidence that doubtful calls would go my way.

Well now I wouldn't be a cop anymore. There seem to be some in Akron who didn't get the message after Chauvin, Potter, the Arbery defendants who included an ex-cop, etc. and were still trying to enforce law and order. Hope they come out of this OK.

The dead person? Wasn't armed at the end, but was shooting earlier, someone forgot to mention that oops.

Cop doesn't have to see the elements for a felony conviction before chasing a suspect trying to escape.

Are you sure? I'm quite sure I can't just get out of being pulled over for a broken taillight, by hitting the accelerator. And if speeding per-se is not even a misdemeanor, they can't pursue for that either, by your logic.

Right... Keywords being "when eluding poses a serious threat of injury or actually leads to injuries". Otherwise, it's a misdemeanor.

The Akron policy mirrors the state statute so no chasing on misdemeanors.

This article says the original cause for stop was an "equipment violation":

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I can't imagine an equipment violation being anything more than something like non-approved lightning or "illegal" tint. Sure sounds like a dangerous criminal worth chasing to me!

I somehow doubt an equipment violation is a Felony in Ohio unless you mounted a missile launcher or something on your car.

They say a gun went off while he was driving in his car. Not at the cops. His back window wasn't shattered. No bullet out of there. He didn't shoot out of the door windows. They better hope there is a bullet hole inside the car.

He was shot at, while unarmed, 90+ times and shot 60+ times AT CLOSE RANGE.

This one is bad. Optics are VERY BAD. No way around it

They do in Akron, Ohio.

It's not my logic, it's the courts and states' logic. I already posted the law and the City of Akron PD's chase policy as mandated by the state legislature.

Well, when they issue the warrant for your arrest and later get you at home, you can go to jail for a tail light. It's your right to choose

Did the looting start yet?

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Doesn’t excuse extrajudicial killings, but, again…. [link to vidmax.com (secure)]

Almost a year to the date…
I smell a large scale waste management honeypot.

Clean that nlgga shit up.

Right. In the case of misdemeanor they can take down a description and plate and get a bench warrant. No need to chase.

I've lived in at least 3 states where it is illegal for the cops to chase on a misdemeanor. Looks like Ohio is a fourth.

I am aware of it because back in the 90s there was a suspect and bystander killed in a 128Mph chase through a residential area and the original perp (attempted stop for speeding) was not going 30 over (29 over according to receipt from radar gun) and was exonerated in death as judge said standard for "serious risk to life or injury" started at reckless driving which at the time was 30 over. The case resulted in a no chase law over 90mph and they reduced the reckless to 20 over and officer was charged and convicted of manslaughter for engaging in an illegal pursuit resulting in death and went to jail for 10 years.

We'll see what happens here but it sounds like an illegal pursuit. Ohio had a case about this last year which is when the chase policies were implemented according to my research.

Since there seems to be some indication now this was an accidental discharge... I'm not even sure an accidental discharge in a private vehicle is illegal? Usually have to show intent there. I could see the guy scrambling to remove a concealed gun from his waistband under panic while driving and accidentally firing the gun.

How do they even know it was the gun that went off? Could have gotten a text and the flash on his phone went off as some can be set to do that. I don't see or hear any gunshots in the officer's video.

Still trying justify this cultural bs, huh?

Why be belligerent in any respects if you’re innocent?

Why illegally chase a suspect and then fire at him 90 times while in a residential neighborhood if you've sworn to uphold the law and protect the public?

The “belligerent claimant” has to be in the right venue! Not holding court in the streets.

Though, I’m about to go watch the vid and haven’t seen it, admittedly.

Gonna guess this was avoidable by both parties.

Because, WE have a target on our backs to begin with, Malcolm.

Does a gazelle bitch and complain a lion’s out to snare to it’s offspring or does the gazelle teach it’s offspring how to live to leap another day?

Crash dummy shit.

Because, with community policing and reasonable suspicion, they may have already had this guy PEGGED! Real world shit. Technology is a bitch, Freedumb fighter.

It couldn't possibly be that the treatment of US citizens as domestic enemy combatants by police departments nationwide has resulted in that outcome, could it?

The #1 problem in the US law enforcement system is in my opinion the rampant militarization of police departments and the treatment of all citizens as potential criminals.

You're in a target rich environment when you've made everyone else your enemy.

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

Fucking learn that phrase!

Sounds like your tech was wrong given that the suspect had no criminal record. There's really only a certain generation that continues to operate under the "magical computer tells the future" delusion.

In fact, it's exactly why we have courts and laws and standards of evidence because Barney Fife's "hunches" aren't law and police officers are not judges, juries, nor executioners.

Otherwise, remain a BEAST OF THE FIELD.

Agreed. He should have probably accepted that win and not run, then? You admit.

I’ll stand as a Man in the face of a lynch mob. How about you?

How many deaths you willing to die? Thousands?

I’ll die once. Thanks.

He probably should not have run. Doesn't excuse engaging in an illegal pursuit and then openly murdering a suspect over window tint.