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Comment by mckoss | Hacker News Reader

I was about to lament how reckless the police were to be in a high-speed pursuit, but it's hard to fault them when this began with a fatal shooting of an officer at the beginning of the encounter.

Just a really sad turn of events.

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>there was a physical altercation between police and 26-year-old Gerardo Diego Ayala that ended with a fatal officer-involved shooting.

That doesn't necessarily mean the officer was shot.

It was not. A man got out of the vehicle, the police shot him, and then the chase began.

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/05/santa_ana_pede...

He died of his injuries. His name was Gerardo Diego Ayala.

Doesn't seem to me like the police were the ones who hit Reisse:

    > Investigators allege 21-year-old Victor Sanchez and two
    > other suspects then took off in a Dodge Charger. With 
    > Sanchez at the wheel, the Charger slammed into two
    > vehicles during the pursuit before hitting Reisse, police
    > said.

(from the article.)

The argument is that the police should never be involved in a high-speed chase because it threatens the safety of the general public and often ends in tragedy like this.

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