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The telling thing was that, as the driver's wife said, "if he'd just gone on a little further, he'd have run out of gas."
How does she know how much gas he had in the car? And how are the LEs supposed to know at the time they are giving chase? Sure, he's going to run out of gas eventually, but for all they know, he could have just filled up his tank, and been driving for another three hours.

In other news....

Why not just let him go? "well, he rammed police vehicles" Yeah - I get that. But that doesn't answer the Q. Why not just let him go, and pick him up later? I know the modus operandi is to stop the person, and maybe the LEs were going by the book - doing what they were trained to do. Maybe not - i don't know what the policy is here. But I still wonder if letting a person go in that situation is more often than not the better way to go.