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from: Rich Gauszka
date: 2007-04-30 19:14:28
subject: Supremes: Police can use violent means to end high speed chases

From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Good - far too many of these idiots fleeing and injuring innocent people.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0501/p25s01-usju.html

In an important ruling defining Fourth Amendment protections against
unreasonable searches and seizures in the context of high-speed police
chases, the US Supreme Court on Monday gave a green light to law
enforcement to use violent force to stop fleeing suspects who pose a
substantial and immediate risk of serious physical injury to others.

"A police officer's attempt to terminate a dangerous high-speed car
chase that threatens the lives of innocent bystanders does not violate the
Fourth Amendment, even when it places the fleeing motorist at risk of
serious injury or death," writes Justice Antonin Scalia in the
majority opinion.

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