Quote from: Jclayton92 on May 19, 2024, 03:18:35 PMThese cops were clearly not prepared for what they were dealing with and over reacted to the situation. You would likely have not seen the same reaction to something so insignificant or the rush to detain and arrest if this had been in or around a major metropolitan area.
Just my opinion though.
As I read the accounts it wasn't these cops, it was this cop. And he was a detective and not experienced in a situation like this (pure conjecture - was he already a little pissed and out of sorts to be called out in the rain to do crowd control instead of investigating the fatality ?). And he (and the others, to be fair) were wearing yellow optical vests so it might not have been apparent that he was even a cop. A cop told Sheffler to bypass the traffic and he was doing what he was told. Then this guy got involved. And I repeat a point I made earlier, what kind of idiot tries to stop a car by grabbing it and holding on when it doesn't stop. I also found it amusing that the last line of the police report was about his ruined beyond repair uniform trousers, valued at $80.
I'm a very conservative guy and I pretty much knee-jerk support the cop in controversial cases, but from what I've read, given the circumstances and Sheffler's reputation as the straightest of straight arrows, not this time.