Here is a high speed chase that ends up with officer shooting point blank into windshield of the car. Actual shooting takes place at about minute 4 if you don’t want to watch the chase.
http://www.officer.com/videonetwork/index.jsp?showid=378811
Question, what was he doing on the hood of the car? Any ideas there? Does not seem like a very good idea or SOP to jump onto the hood. Can't blame him for shooting when perp started to take off with him on the hood after being told to stop, but what he was doing on the hood in the first place is the question I have.
Perhaps car came toward him and his instinct was to leap onto the hood? Anyway, far better to see perp, who just put a bunch of people’s lives at risk, get the lead poisoning vs the cop getting run over and or dragged down the road as has happened. My empathy meter for the perp is running on zero here, but it would be interesting to know how he ended up on the hood of the car….Perhaps the officer didn’t simply shoot into the drivers side window out of concern for the passenger? If so, officer has some nads on him I must say!
Story:
BLUE ASH, Ohio --
A driver was killed and two officers were injured Tuesday after a police chase and shooting.
Daryl Black, a passenger, said all he wanted was a ride to the store. What he got instead was the wildest ride of his life.
Already, he's having nightmares, newsnet5.com partner WLWT-TV in Cincinnati reported.
"I thought I was a goner," Black said.
Black, 28, was riding with Charles Bennett, 37, when Blue Ash police tried to pull him over for erratic driving near Sycamore High School. Instead, Bennett made a run for it.
Wednesday night, Black watched the dashcam video from the Blue Ash cruisers that chased Bennett early Tuesday morning.
"What I am thinking here is, 'Get me out of this car ? you're going to kill us," he said.
Black said he didn't know that the car was stolen. He said that he tried to grab the wheel, but couldn't.
Black said Bennett never said a word during the entire chase.
Eventually, after being hit by police cruisers at least twice, Bennett's car stopped and an officer jumped on the hood of the car, firing through the windshield.
"I thought I was a dead man, you know? I thought he was going to shoot me when he was up on that thing. I kept on saying 'No, no, no, don't shoot!" Black said.
Bennett died at Bethesda North Hospital, but Black was unharmed and police quickly determined he was an innocent bystander.
"Going through a chase and then watching an officer shoot several shots in a window, when you think the next bullet is for you, it's unreal," Black said.
The three officers who fired shots during the pursuit are on administrative leave.
http://www.officer.com/videonetwork/index.jsp?showid=378811
Question, what was he doing on the hood of the car? Any ideas there? Does not seem like a very good idea or SOP to jump onto the hood. Can't blame him for shooting when perp started to take off with him on the hood after being told to stop, but what he was doing on the hood in the first place is the question I have.
Perhaps car came toward him and his instinct was to leap onto the hood? Anyway, far better to see perp, who just put a bunch of people’s lives at risk, get the lead poisoning vs the cop getting run over and or dragged down the road as has happened. My empathy meter for the perp is running on zero here, but it would be interesting to know how he ended up on the hood of the car….Perhaps the officer didn’t simply shoot into the drivers side window out of concern for the passenger? If so, officer has some nads on him I must say!
Story:
BLUE ASH, Ohio --
A driver was killed and two officers were injured Tuesday after a police chase and shooting.
Daryl Black, a passenger, said all he wanted was a ride to the store. What he got instead was the wildest ride of his life.
Already, he's having nightmares, newsnet5.com partner WLWT-TV in Cincinnati reported.
"I thought I was a goner," Black said.
Black, 28, was riding with Charles Bennett, 37, when Blue Ash police tried to pull him over for erratic driving near Sycamore High School. Instead, Bennett made a run for it.
Wednesday night, Black watched the dashcam video from the Blue Ash cruisers that chased Bennett early Tuesday morning.
"What I am thinking here is, 'Get me out of this car ? you're going to kill us," he said.
Black said he didn't know that the car was stolen. He said that he tried to grab the wheel, but couldn't.
Black said Bennett never said a word during the entire chase.
Eventually, after being hit by police cruisers at least twice, Bennett's car stopped and an officer jumped on the hood of the car, firing through the windshield.
"I thought I was a dead man, you know? I thought he was going to shoot me when he was up on that thing. I kept on saying 'No, no, no, don't shoot!" Black said.
Bennett died at Bethesda North Hospital, but Black was unharmed and police quickly determined he was an innocent bystander.
"Going through a chase and then watching an officer shoot several shots in a window, when you think the next bullet is for you, it's unreal," Black said.
The three officers who fired shots during the pursuit are on administrative leave.
