… 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. …
“Criminals are fully at fault when police randomly shoot at them and hit civilians behind them”
Is that the same kind of logic you’d have?
After reading a lot of people’s take on the shootout where the UPS driver hostage got killed (likely by police, as the video doesn’t show if anybody even fired from the UPS truck). So many people excused the police and blamed the criminals 100%, even though anybody whose favorite appetizer isn’t boot polish could tell you firing into rush hour traffic is incredibly irresponsible.
All that to say, I wouldn’t put it past them.
If it was say, a bank robber shooting at police, yeah. Yes, I’d blame him too. If the police shot unprovoked, no. Of course the police should handle situations like this better - put a tag on the car, call a helicopter, whatever - but at least part of the blame lies with this moron driving around with a felony warrant, no license plate, 4 kids in the car, then trying to run from the cops. For the warrant he already had, he will go to prison for a few years, so I could see why he’d be reluctant to turn himself in. But this sort of stupid shit isn’t going to help.