Let's not be too quick to condemn the officer. In my brief time as a deputy sheriff, I stopped a 79 year old drunk who was driving in the middle of the night on a main highway. He jumped out of the car and wrestled me to the ground in the middle of the road in the pitch darkness. Then to ad insult to injury he got the handcuffs away from me and threw them into the woods. When my backup arrived it took two of us to subdue him. To this day when I see the other officers they kid me about it. There was even a cartoon drawn about it and put in the newspaper.
One Sunday afternoon, I was on routine patrol and an oncoming car drifted into my lane, sideswiped my patrol car and then took off. I chased him for about 10 minutes and he finally stopped. He was 93 years old.
JLK
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