• Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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    I knew he wasn’t black, (the odds of being arrested 97 without being fatally shot is too small) but is he an ex-cop or related?
    What I see from the banana republic it doesn’t take too much, certainly repeat offenses to put you in jail for decades/life.
    This guy still can drive and what’s even more strange is the lack of name and mugshot.
    American news invariably shame their criminals, publish the address etc…
    So who is this guy?

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      Nobody. Washington seems to have a lot of repeat offenders that are in and out of the legal system. There’s been multiple instances where someone out on bail commits another crime and makes headlines.

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          This guy is aiming for the high score apparently? It’s astounding this man has such a lengthy record and was still roaming free. I wonder how long until he’s out again?

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      15 hours ago

      From another article:

      *Two pursuits. Both were terminated because his driving was so reckless that it was dangerous to keep chasing him. He was blowing through intersections at high speed through downtown Olympia and into Lacey.

      That’s how innocent people die. A family heading home. A kid crossing the street. We’re handing the wheel to a driver who’s apparently high on meth and fentanyl and has no intention of stopping.*

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        I remember them shooting at a hijacked FedEx truck
        It couldn’t go fast anyway, had a tracker and was stuck in traffic with cars everywhere.
        It was going nowhere.
        No negotiating or thinking, the cops just started firing.
        They killed everyone in the truck (driver/victim also) and at least 1 (or more if I remember correctly) of the unlucky commuters in the line of fire.

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    I am pissed off that I watched that video, and they didn’t show the damn dash bong.

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    Inside the truck officers found a “custom bong device built into the dash of the truck so he could comfortably smoke drugs while driving”. Meth, heroin, and fentanyl were also discovered, as well as the stolen items.

    The driver of the truck had 97 prior arrests. He is facing charges of DUI, eluding, and possession of narcotics. The passenger was turned over to Centralia PD for organized retail theft.

    Goddamn dude

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      97 prior arrests sounds like police harrassment, not illegal behavior.

      logic this through with me. if he’d been convicted, there would be a hell of a lot fewer arrests.

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        Under other circumstances, I might agree with you, but the guy built a bong into his dashboard.

        That’s an impressive level of commitment to DUI.

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          it’s not convictions, it’s arrests. after i’d been arrested (not convicted) 60 times, fuck obeying the law. the social contract broke.

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                  Yeah I was agreeing, but in a fuck the police way. Seriously how did he get to 90 arrests. After 10 they should have had social services there to see why and how they could help. You can’t get to that many arrests without police intentionally fucking up the prosecution to let him go and arrest him again.

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          Where in the dash was it built? Maybe our hero is the designated driver with a passion for making sure that passengers riding shotgun never have to be sober.

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      Extremely unresponsible to be driving under the influence of hard drugs. If someone is going to be smoking meth and fentanyl, they should at least have the reason to not be driving.

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        I mean… it didn’t say he was smoking anything but weed out of the bong… probably but FFS, how about the 99 priors??? How was this asshole even behind the wheel of a vehicle? This stinks of a CI.

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            I don’t think I ever claimed that one should. WTF know, maybe dude was talking the drugs to him mom so riddled with cancer she can’t live without the biggest pharmaceutical grade hammer we have… maybe not. I’ll be withholding judgement after the last Last Week Tonight.

            Probably not your jam either, but even my conservative parents enjoy watching it. And I swear they listened to NPR for 5 years just to yell at the radio 😂

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          The article said there was fentanyl, meth, and heroin. I’d guess that he wasn’t just transporting it.

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            I’m not saying he wasn’t using a bit of himself. I’m just saying a bong is typically used to smoke weed. Given the potency of Fentanyl I doubt he was just casually sprinkling a bit on top for flavor 😝

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    Reminds me of a story I heard like 20-30 years ago. Some German dude wrecked his Merc on the autobahn… the cops get there and he just wreaks of schnapps but they find no bottles, no means of consumption. The car gets towed to a police station to be examined and they found that he had diverted the window washing tank into the cabin, dude wants a pug of schnapps and he hits his window washer button.

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    Dumbass cop was about to pitt maneuver this truck into an innocent car.

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        Or, as is commonly done elsewhere, get their plates and a photo, and drop by their house later (unless they’re an active threat to public safety of course).

        This is literally the SOP in a lot of other countries: You don’t chase someone in a vehicle unless you absolutely have to. You rather just identify them and apprehend them at a later point.

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          get their plates and a photo

          Guy had 97 priors including DUIs. Doubtful that the truck had a valid registration/license plate with a traceable address.

          I used to disc golf with a dude who had multiple DUIs and finally went to jail for it for 18 months. The fucking day he got out he bought a cheap used car, slapped an old out-of-state license plate on it, and went right back to driving around drunk as shit.

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            Guy had 97 priors including DUIs.

            Hence the photo, which should make it pretty easy to figure out who the guy is when he’s already registered in the system. Once you know who he is you quickly find out where he’s living, because again, the guy has 97 priors, so the cops should have a solid database on where he tends to reside and who he knows.

            The fucking day he got out he bought a cheap used car, slapped an old out-of-state license plate on it, and went right back to driving around drunk as shit.

            That’s absolutely horrendous… hope he gets caught again before he kills someone…

            Besides that: That could quickly be a situation where whoever is apprehending him recognises that he’s drunk-driving and that he’s a big enough threat to the public to warrant chasing him down instead of letting him go and apprehending him later.

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          Later that evening at the cars registered address…

          Cops bang on door at 3am, groggy the homeowner tries to figure out what’s going on. 3am!?, what’s going on? Better grab my gun in case it’s someone trying to break in. Goes to the door and opens it, immediately gets blasted by the cops. The wife comes out screaming so they tase her and then calmly let her know they saw their stolen vehicle earlier so this needed to happen.

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            Or, hear me out: The cops that are well enough educated and trained to recognise that it’s safer to just track down the guy later will also be well enough educated and trained to not do that. Because doing that would be stupid, and the whole point here is that you can and should select and train people with a monopoly on violence to not do stupid shit that gets people killed.

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            i mean my experience is they only do shit at 3am when they’re trying to arrest people who they expect to be armed and trying to escape. if they’re just doing ticket service, they stop by at dinnertime because it embarrasses you in front of the neighbors.

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          Haha! You fell into the trap of my nuclear powered hyper bike! I never have to stop! Bwahahaha! Man, I gotta take a dump tho, fr.

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                just put a hole in the seat with some electric scissors (so i guess nuclear powered snippers) to slice off dingleberries. just, uh, if you’ve got some bait and tackle and don’t want the at-home forcefemming don’t forget to grab your gaff

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      Thank god I am not the only one to immediately catch that. What that pig attempted was FUCKING DANGEROUS.

      And then another pig on the radio is heard giving clear instructions to not attempt unless below 70(mph). Still with plenty of other vehicles on the roads…

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        How else you going to live out your badass road warrior fantasies??

        Fucken dunce…

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      This whole chase was idiotic. Poor pit maneuver. Chasing suspect through traffic and intersections.