How to pull over a motorcyclist

[svxistentialist]

Originally Posted by jeffast

ok, read the rules of the road, red and blue mean pull over, or they will attempt to pull you over using any means neccisary, you may get away if you run, but you may get hurt if you do. besides innocent people don't run.

any means necessary....????
This kind of "compliance" with police methodology harks back to "Wanted, Dead or Alive" times. If you give them this kind of license in what they perceive is the pursuit of their duty, you will have nowhere to look for justice if some day your kid is shot behind the wheel for breaking a red light.

Originally Posted by SoCal LS-L

The officer knew the outcome of his decision before he pulled directly in the path of the motorcyclist, its just lucky the guy had dumb luck and was alright. Wish we knew what he did though....

I've looked at it many times. It doesn't matter what he did. The cop gave him no time to react. The biker tried to turn if you watch carefully, but it was too late.

Ask yourself if the cop would have tried this if the perp was in a corvette doing the same speed. Or a truck. Would he? You bet he wouldn't. But because the cop is protected by two tonnes of steel, he can place the nose of his vehicle in front of 200kgs of a bike, and know that he himself will not be hurt.
The cop had room and time to turn his car completely sideways to the bike, totally blocking the lane. Did he do that? No, because he knew the bike would penetrate the side of the car and he would be hurt. At the last minute he stuck the nose of the car in the biker's path, knowing the bike could not crush the front of the car.

This is unjustifiable use of deadly force. Unless the biker was leaving the scene of a drive-by shooting and had a passenger on the back with an automatic assault weapon, there could be no justification for this action.