5th Child Dies in California Police Chase Crash
This is one of the worst tragedies I remember reading about. Mostly for the parents who live on while all their children wouldn't. In a way, there's hope that they can always have more children, but the lost is unimaginable.
If you read more from the KTVU article, I was stuck dumb to hear the family blame the police. I know they are grieving and are looking for someone to blame... not easy when the all the fleeing suspects are dead. But blaming police? Really?
For doing their job?
They way the family member was quoted made it sound like the police deliberately chose a stolen car over the lives of people. Well, that's an amazing ability to look in the future to know that at that precise moment a truck carrying a load of kids--with no safety precautions whatsoever--would so nicely happen along to stop the chase. And it saved time on processing the suspects too! /sarc
I confess I don't know the particulars of the chase, whether the police were pushing too hard or whatever. But it doesn't change the fact that criminals broke the law, continued running rather than face the consequences, and eventually paid the price by losing their lives and destroying others.
How about blaming the suspects who decided to gamble with fate and lost? And does no one sympathize with the police who had to watch it all happen?
In the end, the family is entitled to their grief and anger. It's just that when it's misplaced, I believe it results in bitterness that does a disservice for both the victims and those still alive.
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