Here in Vegas last night was another shooting.
The story being told by the survivors (the cops) is that they pulled a guy over (not sure why he was being pulled over, that part of the story isn't out yet). The guy in the car jumped out and ran.
It was on the outskirts of town apparently because he ran into the desert.
The way the news reported it is that when the cops gave chase "gunfire erupted".
And one of the cops is shot up pretty bad (4 shots to the lower body).
The guy they were chasing is now dead.
I guess there's two ways to look at this:
Maybe the guy was a car thief? And in that case, the cops had the stolen car and the bad guy would have gotten away. But nobody gets shot and nobody dies.
Or the guy owns the car and had "illegal" drugs on him and panicked and ran.
The cops have his car, know where he lives, and can arrest him at their leisure. No need to chase him. Nobody gets shot, nobody dies.
BUT...the cops decide to give chase on foot. Maybe they watch too many cop shows on television.
One cop gets shot up bad. The guy running is killed.
It's a miracle that both cops didn't get killed.
And for what? A traffic stop?
This kind of superhero cop shit should be used when people's lives are in danger. Not on a traffic stop by a couple of cops hoping to get a promotion.
Instead, one is hurt badly. The other one is involved in killing another human being.
And the 29 year old guy who ran is dead.
Seems like a pretty extreme result for a stupid traffic stop.
