Originally Posted by
chipcom
Sorry, but you are incorrect. If this had been a drunk driver, rather than a lack of legal lighting, do you really think any DA, judge or jury would think that the LEO had fulfilled his responsibility? How about if he was stopped for carrying a gun? The key issue here is that violation of the applicable law might endanger lives...and it was obviously more than a might in this case.
Cutting someone some slack then finding that doing so cost a life is one of a cop's worst nightmares.
Was this a drunk driver? No, it wasn't. Neither was he a serial killer.
Your argument is absurd. Cops are not there to police the town down to the tiniest infraction. I mean, what do you say... every accident that happens downstream of a speed trap makes the officers-- who didn't pull over the 56 mph scofflaws-- liable? Ridiculous.
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