who the officer claimed was riding “recklessly.” After ordering the cyclist to stop, the officer rammed the SUV into the cyclist so hard the Citi Bike got wedged in the wheel well. “You’re refusing to stop after multiple lawful orders that you acknowledged,” the officer says to the cyclist in a video recorded at the scene.
“So I am going to use whatever means necessary to stop you, okay? And that’s for your safety.”In 2019 the Indianapolis television station WHTRin front of various SUV models to illustrate the dangerous blind spots — a person in the driver’s seat of a Cadillac Escalade was only able to see the head of the 13th kid.
awalkerinLA Lol! Police are more dangerous for buying safer cars
awalkerinLA Always some sort of negative sensationalism. I'm much more scared of some Becky driving a luxury brand of SUV who hasn't been told no in her life.
MyHarmReduction awalkerinLA Maybe if we gave them more money they could get Maybachs
awalkerinLA The crown Vic has been out of production since 2011-2012. Come on.
awalkerinLA This is great. Now use the same language to report on all SUVs.
awalkerinLA Give me a break. It’s an Explorer. Crown Vics were longer, bigger and heavier. Same with the Caprice Classics before the Crown Vics.
awalkerinLA PursuitSAFETY
Crown Vics disappeared well over a decade ago, soooo no surprise there
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awalkerinLA Ford hasn't made the Crown Vic for over a decade.
awalkerinLA I would love to get one of those crown Victoria’s. Best car I ever owned. I did not care that people made fun of me for driving an old Hooptie. Incredibly safe, reliable, I got 26 mpg on the highway, easy to fix. I hated it when Ford stopped making them
awalkerinLA As a European, can I just say the Crown Vic was also not in any way a small vehicle. It did have a surprisingly small cabin for the amount of acreage it took up on the road, yes, but that is not at all the same thing.
Weird how it’s always a Ford,
awalkerinLA A Ford Explorer is not bigger than a crown Vic
awalkerinLA More comfortable for their lazy, fat asses.
ashtonpittman awalkerinLA Dodge and Ford booth made police cruiser sedans and the snowflake cops decided they wanted the SUV instead.
awalkerinLA Gotta spend all that ill-gotten civil asset forfeiture money on something.
awalkerinLA Gas guzzlers in a climate crisis! Sickening!
awalkerinLA I hope they all explode
awalkerinLA You can kill a lot of innocent people in one of those.
awalkerinLA This is typical cowboys mentality 🆘and the BiggerTheBetter intimidation tactic. At the end of the day, investment 💵 in MentalHealth and Parks 🌳 and CommunityCenters 🏬 will have PositiveImpact in crime and violence
awalkerinLA So they can kill more innocent Americans
ballesteros_312 awalkerinLA Explorers are actually shorter in length than a crown Vic by 14 inches on average. So gargantuan!
awalkerinLA I have agree. Put people w a power complex behind the wheel of a giant SUV and that just doubles the arrogance. I say give them a tiny clown car. Smart car. Especially in cities. Bicycle cops are the most effective here and some actually interact w residents!
Yesterday a cop car turned his lights on just so he could speed through the red light I was at.
gwenckatz awalkerinLA A Crown Vic only got like 14 MPG anyway. The new patrol cars are much safer.
awalkerinLA How am I supposed to believe anything you write when you use the term 'infinitely' deadlier? They may be twice or triple or , but they are not infinitely deadlier.
awalkerinLA An electric SUV will weigh in at over 6k lbs.
awalkerinLA Makes sense considering how many civilians are driving those. Fun fact: the footprint rule under Obama allows larger vehicles like SUVs to emit more pollution than small cars
ashtonpittman awalkerinLA Legitimately curious: can a cop driving a big heavy car also run down a pedestrian who is fleeing from a misdemeanor? Does the bike under the human somehow make it vehicle vs vehicle : violence ok b/c “protected”?
awalkerinLA Looking good.
awalkerinLA Cops are paid by us to kill us. Killing innocent people is the primary function of the police in this country.
swin24 awalkerinLA Electric, right?
awalkerinLA Sorry but with inflation and budget cuts, we traded in everything for a full force of these.
awalkerinLA Worse still throughout the south, Police and Sheriff’s are eschewing even SUVs for F-150s and RAM 1500s with absolutely no justifiable need for them
awalkerinLA Infinitely deadlier? Come on, you have to do better than that.
awalkerinLA Eerie timing
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awalkerinLA They’re not police cars. They’re battering rans.
awalkerinLA Let me fix this headline for you: Across the US, everyone is retiring their sedans in favor of SUV's. A report on these larger, heavier and (you don't understand the definition of 'infinite') more dangerous vehicles that the police encounter, and need to match, every day.
AyeshaASiddiqi awalkerinLA Gives the trains a bigger target when the cops leave them parked on the tracks with a suspect trapped in the backseat
awalkerinLA I think that happened about 15 years ago.