Police officer

The Guardian has this to say:

For the first part of the standoff, the Audi first smashed into the BMW and the parked Tesla, trying and failing to ram through. Seeing this, Blake sprinted away from the Audi, round first the side and then the back of the parked van, round the back of his car, and took a position protected by the side of the police BMW. He aimed his Sig Sauer MCX 5.56 rifle. For those seconds he was repositioning himself, he could not see what was playing out, but said he heard revving of the engines, tyre screeches and the Audi moving at “great” speed. It was no more than 12mph, the prosecution said.

Blake claimed officers were in danger of being run over or dragged under the Audi, but he could not point out in extensive video footage which officers’ lives he feared for.

How much damage can a vehicle cause at that speed?
It could quite easily kill.
 
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Has it never occurred to people of any/all ethnicities that, if they en masse generally live law abiding lives, this sort of thing is far less likely to happen to them.
 
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The other point of course is just why he did what he did?
Facing attempted murder charges may well have figured.

The judge decided to lift reporting restrictions so more is coming out. The ones in place prevented some details due to the reason for the policeman's charge. Should he have shot or not based on the situation at the time. The defence wanted to make use of his criminal record. It seems to try and justify his reasons for trying to escape.
 
A better video here:


The beeb version is cropped a bit early. I had wondered if he'd simply taken his foot off the brake and the car "rolled" forward under auto.

Its clear he was still trying to escape even when told "Armed Police".

and the officer who fired the shot was directly in front of the car that was trying to ram through the road block.
 
No problem with any policeman shooting any deserving criminal

But we cannot have a situation where any police person can kill without legal authority and investigation.

The rules are there for a reason
 
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