GA Bystander Critically Injured in Aftermath of Police Chase.

[RiffRandell]

This happens all the time down here and needs to stop.

A few years ago a cop killed a woman in a crash when another cop was already behind the suspect.

GAINESVILLE, Ga. —


Friends of a man critically hurt in the aftermath of a police chase fear those responsible won't pay for his mounting medical bills.

Terry Grizzle suffered critical internal injuries and underwent surgery Friday afternoon at Northeast Georgia Medical Center.

Grizzle flew around 25 feet through the air when a truck, pushed off the road during a police chase, struck him on Wednesday in Lumpkin County while he was working on a ladder. His friends want the state to pay for his medical bills because of the circumstances surrounding his injury.

Link: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/bystander-critically-injured-during-police-chase/ngsqk/

[tech3149]

1. It doesn't just happen down there

When I graduated from HS back in the 70's some people I knew were chased down by a local cop. The cop should have easily known who they were, they were always cruising around town. He ran them off the road, they all died.

[RiffRandell]

2. You're right.

I just see it on our local news all the time. Supposedly people have tried a ban but it hasn't passed.

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. Here's an innocent man recently killed during a high-speed police pursuit:

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2014/jul/28/pedestrian_killed_drug_investiga

Pedestrian Killed in Drug Investigation Police Chase

by Phillip Smith, July 28, 2014, 11:35pm, (Issue #845)

Posted in:

2014 Drug War Killings
News Brief

An Ohio man walking to his job was struck and killed by a vehicle being driven at high speeds as it was being chased by police doing a drug investigation. Agyasi Ector, 27, becomes the 27th person to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this year.

According to WDTN 2 TV News, citing law enforcement sources, Trotwood Police began chasing a vehicle "as a result of a drug operation." During the chase, the fleeing vehicle reached speeds of up to 100 mph, Captain John Porter said.

The vehicle crashed on Shiloh Springs Road near Olive Road, where Ector was walking. He was struck by the vehicle and killed.

The two men in the fleeing vehicle, who have not yet been identified, were treated for non-life-threatening injuries at a local hospital. Police said they face possible charges of murder and felonious assault.

Captain Porter said that despite the fatal result of the high-speed pursuit, police did everything right.

"It wasn't the officer that crashed in this," he said. "It wasn't the officer that lost control in this particular situation. We prepare the officers very specifically on policy and procedure, and as far as we can tell from our preliminary investigation, our officers followed all of those policies and procedures."

WDTN 2 TV News obtained a copy of the department's pursuit policy. It says pursuits should be called off if "the risk of continuing the pursuit is greater to the member and the community than the risk the suspect poses to the community if they escape."

Trotwood, OH
United States

[RiffRandell]

4. That's terrible.

It's got to stop.

[Rex]

7. Actually those cops did something wrong if a bystander got killed.

In defense of cops - most cops will disengage a high speed pursuit, if it becomes too dangerous to the public at large around them. That is what police helicopters are for.

Those that put the public at large at risk, know better.

[tblue37]

5. M son's 18-year-old friend was killed in such a chase, and my son's

20-year-old roommate was badly injured (had to have a lot of stitches).

Fortunately, my son stayed home that night to study for exams, rather than going out to celebrate his roommate's birthday with them. I saw the car afterward. The part of the car where my son would have been sitting if he had been with them (right behind the driver) was crumpled like a piece of paper. If he and been with them, he could not have survived, not even if he had been wearing a seatbelt.

The boy who was killed was the driver, and he was always an obnoxious fool. But he was also just 18 years old. The cops started after the car as soon as the boy drove into the apartment parking lot and stopped to drop off the roommate after their night out celebrating. The kid had a six-pack of beer in his car and was afraid of getting an MIP, so when the cop car sitting in the parking lot turned on its lights and started toward them, the boy panicked and ran.

My son's roommate survived only because he managed to get his seatbelt on just as the car crested a hill at an outrageously high speed in a residential area, went airborne, knocked over a sign, and then pretty much wrapped around a tree, breaking the driver's neck and killing him instantly.

Thank goodness my studious son had two exams coming up on the following Monday and was unwilling to stay out late that Saturday, even to celebrate his roommate's birthday!

[RiffRandell]

6. Wow!

What a story! Lucky for you and your son but I'm sure it was hard on everyone for the loss of his friend.

[tblue37]

8. His friend was the only child of a single mother, and also the father of a baby

who was born after the young man died. Very sad all around.

My son's roommate called him from the hospital, and I went with him. He was badly shaken by the whole thing. He was just 19 at the time himself, and I don't think he could ever have imagined that one of his friends, someone he had gone to school with since kindergarten, could die so young.

[RiffRandell]

9. So sad.

When you are that age, you think you are invincible.

[onethatcares]

10. all the more reason

for Universal Single Payer healthcare.

Too many people don't understand that it could be "YOU" laying in that hospital bed losing all you have just because you were in the wrong spot at the wrong time.

btw, I'm not commenting on the run away driver, just the victim of the accident.

[Savannahmann]

11. The Runaway driver was a cop.

The cop was chasing a stolen pick up truck. Stolen car, figure no more than five years after the courts got done with the plea bargain and back room deals. I'd be surprised if it was that long.

The police officer tried to force the truck to spin out of control so the suspect could be captured. In doing so, the truck spun out of control through a road sign that the injured person was working on.

So the facts. A) The truck almost certainly would not have been going through the road sign out of control without the actions of the police. B) The actions of the police directly led to the results, that is the resulting injury of a bystander.

Universal Health Care may be a worthy goal, but it's going to be difficult to explain how the severely injured bystander would be better off with it. A better solution would be to ban the adrenaline junky self appointed executioners of the thin blue line from acting in such a reckless manner.