Quote: "if it's a traffic stop based solely on a suspended lic., and there are no suspected weapons....."
Anyone here who does not suspect weapons with EVERY person they deal with is way stupid and way off base.
This was supposed to be a traffic stop, based on a bad license plate, and as I have said repeatedly, the man was dragging a trailer full of furniture through the county, poorly loaded, dribbling household goods around the road, quite early in the morning. Don't know where you guys are from, but around here, doing that was likely going to get you stopped by the law if they see you. Running from them when they tried to pull you over, at basically OJ Bronco chase speed was going to get you pursued. There was no minority presence, everyone was of the same general description and most everyone knows everyone else in the counties in question.
What the cops expected to find, when this person refused to stop for the traffic stop was just what they would've found, which was no drivers license, no insurance, an improperly tagged vehicle and illegal substances in the driver or the vehicle. They expected it out of who they thought they were pursuing, and they expected it out of any random stop they'd make where the person drives away like this. As I've said repeatedly, they also expected the person to be armed as most of the people here, both felon and non felon, legally and illegally, are.
There have been several cases in our state where officers were killed by people trying to drive through roadblocks. Those would stay on your mind while trying to stop people on the road. In fact, they'd called ahead, and at least one other attempt had been made to pull this truck and trailer over after the first stop. All the driver had to do was stop. Why didn't he? We don't know. They certainly didn't know while it was all going on.
Don't know where you're from, or what horn you are blowing, but this situation is not what you seem to believe, you do not have a good understanding of the case or a good argument here. Contrary to what you've assumed, this is not a world where the cops are out on the streets trying to kill everybody based on the sheriff's direction. And just because there are some real loudmouth blowhard jerks who occupy positions of power around here at the present time, that does not mean every single person who has to work under them, or who is forced to listen to them feels the same way or will be guided by their disgusting nonsense.

