Ian Crossland
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These are things that the police use to- No, no, pit maneuvers isn't shooting the driver in the head.
That's different.
It's a non-lethal way to get them.
Pit maneuver is intended to be non-lethal.
You're supposed to run their car off the road and arrest them with a pit maneuver.
You know, Suleiman, you said that the car's going at two miles an hour.
I think it's important to realize the car was accelerating at the guy, so he didn't know how fast it was gonna hit him at, and it was a couple thousand pounds.
And it's like, if you flag a cop with your gun, you pull out a gun and you wave it past him, he's gonna shoot and kill you.
Accelerating a car towards a cop is flagging them with a gun.
When you flag a cop, you didn't even shoot him with a bullet.
You didn't even intend to.
It's pretty discouraging.
Yeah, he is.
No, I like him.
It's not about dystopian power.
The first thing I thought was if a cop puts his hand on my hood of my car and I touch my gas pedal, he has a right to shoot me.
And everyone's like, yeah.
I'm like, well, that's fucking crazy.
Why would you do that?
In five years, I'm driving down the road and a guy walks out on the street and he puts his hand on my car.