Warren’s police commissioner defended his department’s decision to pursue a fleeing vehicle for nearly three minutes the day after Christmas, ending in the 24-year-old suspect’s death.
That kid died because he had expired tags on his license plate
That “kid” was 24 years old.
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Kelley was not wanted for a felony, but officers would later learn he did have a warrant for a traffic offense, a misdemeanor. After the crash — where Kelley died at the scene — police recovered a stolen handgun in his vehicle.
Provides a little more context for why the guy fled. Turns out, not just expired tags as most here would like you to believe.
Illegal possession of a stolen gun, likely intended to use that gun for at best extortion at worst murder. Yea I’ll say it, that 24 year old was up to no good, and made the choice to drive dangerously and kill himself.
I’m happy his actions result in him no longer being able to cause pain and suffering to others. Instead of him harming others karma caught up with the punk.
I know you need for me to hold the position that he deserved to die but I just don’t. You’re welcome to continue trying to put words in my mouth though.
I’m not particularly broken up about a gun thief dying, no. But I think we can all stop pretending like the guy didn’t have agency and drove himself into a truck all by himself.
I kind of stopped giving a fuck about stupid people dying around the time a bunch of dipshits refused a life saving vaccine during a pandemic.
That’s the thing, you throw out 5-10 like it’s nothing. Not to mention what going to jail and having a felony on your record do to your life.
That’s a significant amount of your life, which you don’t get back. We can only speculate what led to him being in that position, but once there, consequences that steep strongly incentivize evasion. I have a similar thought experiment that tends to piss some people off:
You’re guilty of something (imagine) and you’re evading and a law enforcement dog is chasing you. You’re far enough away from the actual officers and the only way you’re getting connected to the crime is that dog. It catches up to you, you have a weapon (baseball bat). Do you surrender to it knowing you’re facing charges of 5-10 years?
Completely agree, I can’t hardly imagine a series of choices I would actually make that could lead me to such a situation. And it definitely wouldn’t be the right thing to do, just the subjectively imperative choice given circumstances. Just a what if, that naturally gets under the skin of many, especially (in my experience) those that equate animal life with human life, but that’s a different rabbit hole.
That “kid” was 24 years old.
Edit: kept reading
Provides a little more context for why the guy fled. Turns out, not just expired tags as most here would like you to believe.
Oh, I’m sorry. This is definitely enough cause for his death. /s
No, it was dumb as fuck. But he did it to himself.
And nothing of any value was lost.
Tell that to his family, to their face. In case you forgot, these are real people.
Illegal possession of a stolen gun, likely intended to use that gun for at best extortion at worst murder. Yea I’ll say it, that 24 year old was up to no good, and made the choice to drive dangerously and kill himself.
I’m happy his actions result in him no longer being able to cause pain and suffering to others. Instead of him harming others karma caught up with the punk.
Play stupid games win stupid prizes.
Oh, in that case he definitely deserved to die. Carry on, then.
I know you need for me to hold the position that he deserved to die but I just don’t. You’re welcome to continue trying to put words in my mouth though.
I’m not particularly broken up about a gun thief dying, no. But I think we can all stop pretending like the guy didn’t have agency and drove himself into a truck all by himself.
I kind of stopped giving a fuck about stupid people dying around the time a bunch of dipshits refused a life saving vaccine during a pandemic.
This is just a different flavor of that.
If you’re being chased, then no, you didn’t drive yourself into something all by yourself. There was an extremely significant external factor.
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That’s the thing, you throw out 5-10 like it’s nothing. Not to mention what going to jail and having a felony on your record do to your life. That’s a significant amount of your life, which you don’t get back. We can only speculate what led to him being in that position, but once there, consequences that steep strongly incentivize evasion. I have a similar thought experiment that tends to piss some people off: You’re guilty of something (imagine) and you’re evading and a law enforcement dog is chasing you. You’re far enough away from the actual officers and the only way you’re getting connected to the crime is that dog. It catches up to you, you have a weapon (baseball bat). Do you surrender to it knowing you’re facing charges of 5-10 years?
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Completely agree, I can’t hardly imagine a series of choices I would actually make that could lead me to such a situation. And it definitely wouldn’t be the right thing to do, just the subjectively imperative choice given circumstances. Just a what if, that naturally gets under the skin of many, especially (in my experience) those that equate animal life with human life, but that’s a different rabbit hole.
Pull all that straw outta your shirt. You look ridiculous.
To most adults, 24 is a kid. And the cop didn’t know he had a stolen handgun and it still isn’t worth his death.
Stop infantilizing people just because you hate cops.
Dude died by driving himself into a truck because he didn’t wanna get caught with a stolen gun in his car.
Dude died because he knows that his life would be ruined or ended if he was being arrested by the cops.
There’s no infantilizing. Quit licking the boot.