### LGK Police Pursuit Thread ##

And he gives up. Just like that. I would have liked to see him get punched in the gut.
 
There was a good one last night while we were all sleeping. Dude crashed, car exploded, he died. End of story. Justice served.
 
Claw21 said:
There was a good one last night while we were all sleeping. Dude crashed, car exploded, he died. End of story. Justice served.
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Badge saves Huntington Beach police officer's life in gun-battle car chase; suspect dies in fiery crash

HUNTINGTON BEACH ? A police officer?s badge deflected a bullet heading for his heart in a gun battle during a car chase early Friday morning, officials said. The Huntington Beach officer suffered minor cuts from shattered glass. The incident began near Bushard Street and Yorktown Avenue after a man fled by car from his home when police arrived after midnight responding to a domestic-violence call. The man drove east on Yorktown with officers in pursuit. Abruptly, he made a U-turn and opened fire on the two approaching patrol cars, police said. ?One of the bullets struck an officer in the badge,? said Officer Jennifer Marlatt, a department spokeswoman. ?The round came through the front windshield of the officer?s car, struck the officer?s badge and deflected off. The round did not go through the badge or hit the officer?s (protective) vest,? she said. Both officers returned fire ? one from the driver?s seat of his moving patrol car, Marlatt said. The officers turned their cars around and continued the chase. ?The pursuit reached high speeds and, at one point, we lost sight of the driver,? Marlatt said. That occurred near Harbor Boulevard and the I-405 freeway. Costa Mesa police, joined by a Huntington Beach police helicopter, spotted the suspect?s vehicle and continued the pursuit. It snaked along the northbound 55 freeway, the eastbound 91, then the northbound I-15. Along the way, the California Highway Patrol stepped in and took over the high-speed chase. Eighty-five or so miles after the pursuit began, the suspect lost control of his car and crashed down an embankment at Cleghorn Road in the Cajon Pass. The vehicle burst into flames, and the driver was killed.
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Good Guys -1 Bad Guys -0

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SloMo26 said:
Badge saves Huntington Beach police officer's life in gun-battle car chase; suspect dies in fiery crash



Good Guys -1 Bad Guys -0

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I heard about that badge bullet blocking thing and it sounded like something that was stranger than fiction. Of course, I don't condone the police corruption that sometimes happens, but most police are like the one in this story who is risking his life to stop this nutjob who is putting G-d knows how many people's life at risk. The officer could've crashed towards his death, been shot or killed, but decided that didn't matter as much as preventing that crazy driver from hurting others.

Luckily, he survived and the driver was stopped. I am not celebrating that driver's death, but sometimes the world deals justice and spares those who deserve it.
 
For anyone like me with nothing to do on a saturday night, Chase on channel 4!

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I hate to Monday morning quarterback my fellow popo but that was worst display of police tactics caught on live TV that I have seen in a long time. They forced that guy to the edge of the overpass and gave him no way out but down. It was shear luck they had a big enough chippie to drag that guy back to the pavement. He could have easily pulled away or pulled that chippie down with him. They had plenty of time to negotiate with him before they closed in.

The chippies got lucky with this one it could have turned out very bad for them......:facepalm:
 
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