Quote:Potentially, but if the officer suspected the assailant of DUI, the story would have said as much. It wasn't exactly written in such a way as to drum up sympathy for the attacker.

 

"Driving erratically" can be anything from DUI to quick lane changes to not maintaining a constant speed. There's a pretty big jump from "driving erratically" (which is one of those lovely hokey-pokey catch-alls that cops use to pull you over for driving with out-of-state plates) to driving impaired.

 

So are you going to say that the officer that is the subject of this thread pulled the guy over for no apparent reason and should have waited for a marked unit to catch up to them?  Do you have any facts that point to the officer in question didn't think that the driver of the vehicle might have been impaired?  Is it possible that he may have actually (gasp!) saved lives by making the stop?

 

I just don't understand the hatred of law enforcement by some people.

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