(Stillness in the Storm Editor) At first glance, this doesn’t look like a “good cop” situation. But after the driver is stopped, his car catches on fire and the police have to try and save the life of a man that is irrational and clearly disturbed.
If you’ve ever had to save a drowning person, you know that sometimes their frantic behavior is a risk to you as you try to save them. Lifeguards are instructed to knock a victim unconscious if they are posing a danger to themselves and the lifeguard.
I think the situation is the same here. The driver initially refuses to get out of the car, and when he is pulled out, like a cornered animal, he is resistant. The police have to get control of him, not only to make the arrest but save his life.
This is a good example of how challenging being a police officer can be. That sometimes people don’t want to be helped and have lost their cool due to some situation, like being drunk.
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But the key here is to strive to use minimum necessary force to stop a dangerous situation from getting out of control.
It takes careful consideration of all these things to see that this is truly good. I would argue, it is objectively good because the police stopped the driver from potentially hurting someone with his car, stopped him from dying in a fire, and did so without causing too much harm to him in the process.
How many other situations like this are happening that we don’t hear about? How many police officers, heroes in many cases, appear “bad” because they have to stop someone who’s lost control?
– Justin
(Amy Furr) Police officers helped save a man’s life who was believed to be driving under the influence in Westland, Michigan, last month.
by Amy Furr, July. 31st, 2020
“Westland police released video of the ordeal, which happened on June 21 and involved police pulling the man out of his burning car after he was doing donuts at an intersection,” according to Fox 2.
When the officers were called to Ford and Venoy Road just before 1 a.m., they saw a blue Chevy Traverse repeatedly circling in reverse.
“This guy’s conscious. He’s holding the wheel,” one officer said in video footage of the incident.
Moments later, the vehicle came to a stop and smoke was seen coming out from under its hood.
When the officers approached the car, they told the man to get out because it was on fire. However, he did not move and told officers he was “going to the hospital” while they continued urging him to get out of the burning vehicle.
As one policeman attempted to pull the man out by his leg, another exclaimed, “He’s got a knife! He’s got a knife!” and told the man to drop what turned out to be a razor blade, which he finally did.
The officers were eventually able to get the driver out of the car and took him to a grassy area where he was handcuffed.
“After the driver was restrained officers spoke with him and determined that there was sufficient evidence to place him under arrest for operating a vehicle while under the influence of a controlled substance, and for driving on a suspended license,” the Fox report noted.
The man was checked for additional injuries at Garden City Hospital then released back into police custody.
Since that time, he has been released from custody with his blood results pending.
“Clearly these officers are not jumping to extremes. They are showing a great deal of compassion, they’re handling situations and saving people’s lives,” Westland police Lt. Bob Wilkie explained.
“We do go through de-escalating training; we have been doing that for a while here and these are some of the tactics that are shown in a very tense situation coming to use,” he concluded.
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– Justin
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