stevo23

What do you not like about it? I've been under the impression that it's a wonderful and well liked lens.

I tend to agree with you - he appears to have been resisting the brake check and who knows what he was thinking. But it could be that he had no idea what to do, the pressure of the situation may...

Spur of the moment is key. It speaks to what we can reasonably expect him to have done. I do think he panicked and decided that his own safety was paramount - something most would have...

Take another look and see if you can't detect a guy trying to yank his door open in that first stop.  I know - I'm sure a lot of them are in a very sober state of mind right now. It's like they...

Theoretically, the 911 operators know as he was on the phone with them?

My point being that getting what one deserves is quite a different thing from getting bit by the rattlesnakes you handle. Play with fire and you eventually get burned. But that's quite a different...

The artist has to be immersed in his or her medium. The sculptor knows marble and how it behaves and owns all the right tools for getting it done. He may not be in love with his tools and only see...

I like where this is going. But for whatever reason, I don't expect to read this long of a post on a forum. But man, great topic and good writing!

There actually was footage - it was taken down pretty quickly by the rider with the gopro. But it shows them pretty much moving freely through traffic, crossing into the other lane and looping...

Another case where we have to ask what was reasonable to expect. Undercover inspectors are faced with this every day and routinely have to watch passively as bad things happen "for the greater...

They train us to tap our brakes as a signal to a tailgater. But that's somewhat different from what we see here and I think you're hitting on the fact that this wasn't a "valid" brake check. It was...

Mobs are dangerous, even if they're naked and carrying nothing.

This is excellent and gets to the heart of it. Could he have tried certain things like slowly moving away until the biker got out of the way? Could he have slowed down and let the biker brake check...

I can see only one possible way the driver could have helped diffuse this and that was to slow way down when he saw the rider trying to stop him - before the rider got in front of him. Illegal as...

That's what makes the mob mentality so stupid. He could run over a whole line of them and never even worry. My son once said, when watching Orcs on Lord of the Rings "Never underestimate the power...

Or Georgia or Tennessee or North Carolina or... I see what you're saying, but when I think of myself in that situation, I'm not going to start firing my weapon unless I absolutely have to. 9-12...

I tend to agree. He *could* have possibly done something a little different, I don't think anyone can put an obligation on him for it. As for the guy who tried to stop the driver is one of the ones...

This is a better term. He had it coming. But what he deserved is a completely different thing. That's all I'm saying. He should have known something like this might happen. Wow - so you're...

Perhaps the most important lesson of all - we've developed a certain idea in this society that we can engage in selfish and/or risky behavior and not have to answer for what might happen. If only...

Not at all, I'm just stating the facts and discussing them much as the police are having to do at the moment. Dropping one's personal bias is a difficult thing to do when trying to assess a...