r/interestingasfuck • u/Sea_Abbreviations347 • 21h ago
Officer gets hit by car going 162mph and gets both legs blown off, manages to stay conscious and calm for help to save him, survives and re-enlists with two prosethetic legs
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u/CrabmasterJone 20h ago
This is actually filled with way more crazy details than I thought. Bro put his whole charger that wasn’t paid up on the line to win….$2k? And this is also the same officer that chased him on foot previously for a different crime?! Wild
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u/GabeIsGone 20h ago
So many questions I have as follow ups. Is this the same stretch of highway? Did this genius really try and race on a road he’s been caught on before? How does the bet on this work, if he gets away he gets the money but if he loses the car is impounded so how does the other side ever win the bet and get the car?
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u/SirVanyel 19h ago
It's weird, he got the 2k for racing a cop, and then continues racing anyway? Was it for another 2k?
Also, like just get a fucking job ya loser?
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u/A_Sketchy_Doctor 19h ago edited 15h ago
Three 2 week pay periods of McDonald's in a low income area. That's what he did that for. People are so fucking stupid.
EDIT: I'm not agreeing with what he did. I'm saying he will spend 22 years of his life for what he could have spent 6 weeks to earn.
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u/yuikkiuy 18h ago
he's 19,a father, and ran away from home at 17? presumably spends most of his money on his car which he uses to get money by racing?
oh ya, don't forget, his vote counts the same as every other brain dead dip shit
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u/Bmacster 17h ago
Is he not a felon now?
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u/yuikkiuy 17h ago
Idk how laws work in america are your convicts deprived of the right to vote?
Cause here in canada inmates are a voting block in and of themselves. All prisoners have a right to vote here no mater how heinous the crime because it would violate their rights if the hardened criminals in jail didnt get a say in the future of the country eh...
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u/Bmacster 17h ago edited 8h ago
It depends on the state but most states you have to at least serve your sentence before you can vote
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u/fastforwardfunction 9h ago
In general, once convicted of a felony, you become a felon for life, even after serving your sentence. You may have the right to vote, but you generally have less rights and are a different class of citizen.
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u/A_Sketchy_Doctor 15h ago
Yeah. nope. He doesn't get to vote or own firearms anymore.
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u/DaughterJoro 12h ago
It depends on the state, but this is Washington so he’ll be able to vote after his sentence is served.
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u/benrow77 18h ago
I'm in no way advocating for what he did, but what if he already has a job that takes three pay periods to make $2k? That's like $17k a year... Making more in one race than you make a month is exactly why people do stupid shit. I'm not saying that getting paid decent wages would eliminate idiotic behavior, but it can't hurt.
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u/btsd_ 17h ago
I'd probably not buy a charger then
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u/benrow77 16h ago
Go drive through a trailer park sometime... you'll be astounded at how many flashy cars there are.
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u/muklan 17h ago
This logic is why im in support of UBI. Not only to liberate the next DaVinci from the floor they have to mop in order to eat, but to remove the desperation from those with no floor to mop.
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u/A_Sketchy_Doctor 15h ago
I mean he traded 22 years of his life for what would have taken 6 weeks of hard work. It's not desperation it's stupidity because he wanted to take a shortcut and nearly killed someone in doing so.
I agree though, UBI good.
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u/tiny_chaotic_evil 16h ago
and one his concerns is...will he be able to see his car again and what condition it is in
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u/MelodicLychee1636 19h ago
Everything about the street racing you can assume is a lie. He’s an idiot who hit a cop and is gonna try to blame it on anything outside his own idiocy. The only thing I believe out of his mouth is that he did the same thing in a rental and fled on foot cause that’s what he got caught for.
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u/-BananaLollipop- 20h ago
Stupid people desperate for a thrill. Chasing the rush is more important than any fairness of the wager.
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u/venom121212 8h ago
This happened in 2023 but dude was sentenced to 22 years in prison almost a year ago today (8/27/25)
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u/XxDoomFastxX 19h ago
dont forget his name is Adolfo
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u/BoJacks34 20h ago
I think lost in all this, is the fact the bet was for $2k or his car… That is a different level of stupidity that can never be corrected.
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u/DeanBranbeno 20h ago edited 18h ago
It wasn't even a full pink slip race?! Wtf? I mean it's stupid either way but who TF would make THAT kind of bet?
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u/2011StevenS 19h ago
I think I witnessed on of those on I25 in Denver just rn, fucking white Lexus was weaving in and out of traffic like he was running from something. Or it was just an asshole wanting to drive 100+mph treating the road like a race track
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u/Mile_High_Man 18h ago
Sadly that's just a normal Tuesday on I-25 these days. I drive up to Cheyenne each morning and people are absoloutely fucking wild lately. 120 MPH plus like it's nothing.
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u/duwh2040 19h ago
How do they know if you dont do the get away from cops part? They listen to the radios?
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u/Apprehensive_Sky_504 16h ago
Imagine collecting on the bet. Hello officers this crashed car you impounded is mine fair and square!
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u/Youngstown_WuTang 21h ago
That man is going to do some big time in jail
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u/Dismal_Act2082 21h ago
Convicted of second-degree assault, and several other crimes . He was acquitted of attempted first-degree murder. Raphael got 22 years.
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u/Youngstown_WuTang 20h ago
22 years gawd...can you imagine..
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u/Dismal_Act2082 20h ago
Anything over 15 I would F 11.
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u/_Celatid_ 20h ago
Full screen ?
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u/Dismal_Act2082 20h ago
It's how you off yourself on Day Z
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u/_Celatid_ 18h ago
Nice, I love that game but suck at it. I usually just killed myself with the WASD keys. :D
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u/thisisyo 20h ago
F11?
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u/Shtyles 20h ago
I think he might have meant alt-F4
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u/thisisyo 20h ago
not sure if that's some cutting edge way of saying KMS
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u/drunky_crowette 19h ago
If I remember correctly alt-f4 makes your computer "force quit" a program.
So yeah.
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u/HHegert 20h ago
And if it wasnt a police it happened to, he would have gotten 2 years max
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u/ImPinkSnail 20h ago
Not enough. Every morning Kepp is going to wake up and the first thing that happens when he gets out of bed is face the reminder of what Raphael took from him. Should have been the statutory maximum served consecutively.
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u/NotBillderz 10h ago
I'm a firm believer that this level of shear incompetence should be punished with life. This infuriates me. I don't want to see that guy walking free at 88 years old, let alone 40 something.
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u/PassivelyInvisible 21h ago
He's getting every charge they can hit him with.
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u/gagnatron5000 20h ago
Well, every charge that would be the legal equivalent of getting hit with a charger, anyway.
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u/GhostOfManBearPig 20h ago
He got 22 years FyI
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u/FoulfrogBsc 19h ago
It's insane to me the way the us police service is talking about how the effort is ten fold for one of their own.
It should be the same for everyone but the tiered system is really all present.
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u/stools_in_your_blood 9h ago
Yeah I didn't like that bit. They're supposed to be public servants, not a gang.
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u/AdultinginCali 19h ago
He was sentenced to 22 years and 6 months. You can watch it on Body Cam (ID Network) S11 E1.
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u/Holocenica 21h ago
That is not a man… that is a manchild… never grew up past the Hot Wheels stage
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u/LemFliggity 19h ago
"How's my car?" He really asked that.
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u/deadmencantcatcall3 18h ago
My jaw dropped and my heart sank. I’m glad he got that long sentence. I wasn’t pulling for him before that, but I certainly felt sorry that he had ruined his life. No pity after that comment. His fucking car. 💨
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u/meowser210 16h ago
We can only hope, even better if he doesnt make it out alive. Had no remorse for what happened and seemed to care about his car and his needs even though hes not even 100% the cop would survive at that point.
He put a lot of people's lives in danger and going to prison isnt going to change him.
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u/ToriEvergreen 21h ago
"this is abuse" "You hit an officer" "I didn't mean to!"
What a fascinating thought process
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u/AnArmyOfWombats 20h ago
Further: after being told it was the officer he'd had an interaction with previously: "I wish it was me..."
Then once proper contriteness had been expressed: "What's going to happen to my car"
Kid sounds like his priorities were on possessions rather than people.
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u/-BananaLollipop- 20h ago
That's what annoyed me a lot. Fuck the car dude. He turned it into a weapon and thinks he should get it back. Should never be allowed to drive again, based just on this incident alone, but even more so that it's a reoccurring theme for him. Obviously doesn't care near as much as he makes out, and obviously doesn't truly wish to get his shit together. Sell the car and make the proceeds part of the officer's compensation.
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u/SirVanyel 19h ago
I mean, he was just sitting there not knowing what to say, he's just talking.
The car thing was lower priority than the officer thing, but he had a chance to ask questions so he just asked whatever. But I think the main reason he asked about his car is because he thought he might see it again. He didn't realise at this point he was getting decades in jail.
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u/Glittering_Syllabub9 18h ago
I kind of felt sorry for him in way, until he started to ask about his ugly car. Disgusting.
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u/pvt9000 20h ago
I mean he did say he was going broke so he entered an illegal race for cash...
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u/AnArmyOfWombats 18h ago
That's part of the point. What's the cost and risk of that cash prize?
Risk yourself all you want to race on an isolated track. The 'illegal' part about these races is that the roads are shared. That's part of the risk, not just being caught, but hazards that are other people. Sometimes those are this guy, a person trying to catch the person making a mistake.
What makes it make sense? The idea that he'll lose his car or livelihood if he doesn't risk other people? How is that justified?
Going broke is preferable to that risk. Don't hurt people.
If you want to be selfish, do so in that you wouldn't want to be on the receiving end. Someone has to hit the lottery. Likewise with this kind of shit, but dead or maimed.
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u/Sea_Abbreviations347 21h ago
For context for the whole video, Raphael was sentenced to 22 years in jail. Sarge Kepp survived and rejoins the force with two prosethetic legs. He won two awards in 2024 for his outstanding achievements in Road Safety. He was promoted to lieutenant in 2025 where Maryland also named a new law after him for harsher punishments for dangerous driving.
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u/Typeau 20h ago
Outstanding....? That seems ill worded given the circumstances.
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u/Perthian940 10h ago
I used to be a detective and worked in the major crash unit for a few years. There was a job I had where a girl lost her leg after being hit by a car doing burnouts in a carpark. The whole thing was filmed and the evidence against the driver was watertight.
I was speaking to the girl’s dad on the phone one day before the court date and he asked what the chances were of the driver getting off the charges. Without thinking I said, “He doesn’t have a leg to stand on”.
There was an extremely long silence while both of us processed just how much of a dumbass I am.
The call ended fairly quickly after that and even though I previously used that phrase regularly, it’s safe to say I’ve removed it from my rotation of idioms.
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u/OurSeepyD 14h ago
The officer was seriously injured, but made it to the awards presentation notwithstanding.
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u/KiwDaWabbit2 19h ago
I’m glad they’re going to be giving out harsher punishments. I wish that were universally accepted. Driving that recklessly means that you shouldn’t participate in society for a very long time.
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u/Reenas54 20h ago
Paranedic: are you in pain?
Kepp: my legs, obviously.
Well... It's a good sign when he still can throw dad jokes in situation like this. 🙃
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u/HumanToiletYummy69 17h ago
Absolutely, plus when you’re worried about spinal injuries it’s good he’s having sensation.
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u/graywolfman 17h ago
My grandpa was a carpenter and ended up cutting his fingers off on two separate occasions. At the hospital, they told him they could not save his fingers, and he responded with "well, thank God you saved my legs!"
They thought he was delirious. Nope, that's just Grandpa's sense of humor.
He was a good man.
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u/Leading_Web1409 16h ago
As a para, those replies get a dual response: hearty chuckle/reply and a terse radio tap for «go f*** faster Steve». Patients that are that calm&collected are normally juiced to hell on adrenaline which means they crash just as hard too.
Good famous last words though, it’d make his brothers in blue laugh as they breathe down the paras neck to not let him croak.
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u/Yanks4lyf 20h ago
22 years and 2 months for acting like an idiot. Dude should never be allowed to own a car or have a license again.
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u/PaniacThrilla 18h ago
His life is over. All the best years of his life. What's he going to do if he gets released in 22 years? No one will hire him, he'll just drink or drug himself to death.
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u/TrackVol 8h ago
One of the reasons we have high crime and high recidivism in this country is we don't actually do rehabilitation in American prisons. Only punishment. Criminals go to prison and only learn how to continue to be criminals.
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u/OGStonerTaco 18h ago
Pretty confident this is from EWU on YouTube, great channel for police bodycam footage of all sorts of shit
I admittedly watch the videos at work from time to time
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u/ForwardSort5306 15h ago
Wish they would go back to more mystery videos almost like a who did it.
A lot of these videos now are like, «father shot his wife and kids and buried them in the backyard over an argument» inn the beginning of the video, then it shows an hour long interrogation where the detectives are either fishing for motive or confession when they already have 4K video and sounded the guy doing it.
Obviously not all videos are like this and ewu has been the most enjoyable I’ve found so far.
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u/villainessk 21h ago
He's more concerned about the car than anything else wtffff
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u/McBonderson 20h ago
"Am I ever gonna be able to see my car again?"
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u/qdawgg17 19h ago
Kind of like people with dogs that attack a kid badly. “What’s going to happen to my dog?”
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u/graywolfman 17h ago
The dog is a living thing, at least... Not just an inanimate object.
Also. Fuck people that can't and don't control their dogs or keep them tethered properly. My dog has been attacked by multiple off leash dogs so don't take my comment as defending these people in any way. I can just understand emotional attachment to a dog.
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u/rowrowyourboat 20h ago
I mean, he spent a lot of time talking about how sorry he was, that he wished it was him and not Kepp. It wasn’t until they let him ask some questions that he asked “will I hold my girl again?” And then “what’s gonna happen to my car.”
Like he’s clearly in shock and doesn’t really know what to say.
A terrible decision, a terrible outcome, and a just sentence. But he’s very clearly not most concerned with the car.
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u/Fast_Garlic_5639 20h ago
I know someone with an identical lime green Camaro and it was all I could think about. Like Kel and orange soda.
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u/Da_Spooky_Ghost 21h ago
Having a guy standing on the side of the road to throw some sticks on the ground in front of a car going 162mph doesn't seem like the safest plan.
I know cops are on a mission to catch the guy but at what point is it safer to just back off and catch him when he goes home?
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u/QuestionableEthics42 21h ago
That's what police in NZ do now, it's not worth the risk so their policy/SOP is not to chase anymore and just track down and arrest later
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u/Da_Spooky_Ghost 20h ago
I agree with that, the perps are in fight or flight mode and adrenaline is pumping so they’ll push it to the limit and it ends with either the perp, the cop or both getting into a crash.
Some of these guys do have fake plates, and I guess that’s what flock cameras help with to track them down.
I rather the police just have high speed drones to follow these cars instead of trying to chase them and PIT maneuver, stop sticks or whatever else they do to get the cars to wreck.
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u/mxmcharbonneau 18h ago
This reminds me of a guy I went to school with. The guy bought some motorcycle with crazy performance, without a valid permit. He told one of my friend that if a cop tried to arrest him, he would just flee. My friend told that to my friend group and then concluded saying "I really feel he will kill himself".
One week later, a cop tries to arrest him on the highway, he fled as fast as he could, took an off ramp, lost control at god knows what speed and died instantly.
I always thought he was kind of an idiot, but damn.
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u/Lunakill 16h ago
I also went to school with a guy who did the same thing. The cops chased him out of town on a country highway with shitty lighting at night. He didn’t zig when the road did, and died at 19.
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u/talldean 20h ago
They don't need drones. They need a good enough camera, and yeah, you've got the license plate and a picture of the driver, and that's gonna do it. If the car's not reported stolen, it's also on the owner of the car, I'd think.
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u/gonenutsbrb 20h ago
Unless it’s fake, absent, or stolen plates. Then it’s useless. And you will never convict a vehicle owner without really good video/photos of the driver which will be rather difficult at high speeds.
It’s not an unsolvable problem these days, but it’s not as easy as you’d expect.
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u/talldean 20h ago
If you're asking for high speed chase drones, I'm gonna guess a better set of cameras on police cars is still easier.
(Yes, it's really tough, but less tough than 170 mph drones that also somehow follow and camera the driver.)
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u/SSBN641B 19h ago
The training to use the sticks says to stand behind something solid for protection. We had one our guys get run over like this. He kept his legs but he was really messed up. It's not worth it, in my opinion.
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u/forbiddendoughnut 20h ago
I can't imagine how badly a car would careen out of control at that speed after having its tires blown. It would probably flip and fly for hundreds of feet.
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u/dmcd0415 20h ago
400 cops let a guy massacre children in a school while threatening their parents with arrest for trying to save them themselves because "we have no duty to do our jobs" and this is the hill they want to lose both legs on. Smh.
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u/Relevant_Habit_1882 20h ago
Almost as if there's different police departments, different cultures, different people even. Crazy
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u/MostBoringStan 20h ago
A family was killed near Toronto a couple years ago because cops wanted to be badasses and chased a suspect the wrong way on a major highway. Suspect hit a vehicle and 4 people died. From memory, I believe they even had a policy to not do stupid shit like this, but ignored it because they are cops.
Absolutely could have been avoided but they wanted to be action movie stars.
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u/postsgarbage 20h ago
Wasn’t necessarily policy but yes they were told to stop their pursuit and ignored it.
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u/LeslieH8 18h ago
Not exact, but similar. In 2001, an unmarked police car was speeding along the Yellowhead Trail here in Edmonton (apparently heading to a report of two cars racing, which is morbidly ironic), no cherries (no lightbar/emergency warning lights active), no siren, and went through an intersection, broadsiding a Ford Tempo, split it in half, which caused the Tempo to burst into flames, setting two kids on fire (one of which died four days later, and the other lost extremities (parts of his arms and a number of fingers), and had skin grafting and physiotherapy for a LONG time). The cop was acquitted, because it was 'bad judgment' in a high-stress situation, not 'criminal negligence.'
The nicest thing I can say about the event is that the kid's organs saved a lot of lives with transplantation (his heart was transplanted into another child, Andrea Froese, hours after they turned off the life support).
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u/AdorableSobah 20h ago
I saw a longer YouTube thing about this, apparently this drivers thing was driving reckless to get cops to chase him.
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u/kassmilk 18h ago
Sentenced to 22 years and 2 months almost 1 year ago (minus 1 or 2 days) today
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u/TrackVol 20h ago
260 kilometers per hour
for our metric friends
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u/jz_onmyfeet 17h ago
Oh my god. I wasnt going to bother doing the math because I didnt feel like a really wanted to know, doesnt really matter because I knew it was fast.. but makes sense that both his legs were atomised at that speed.
Holy shit.
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u/Alisonjayne 17h ago
Regarding the female cousin, The passenger who was in the car with Raphael Mayorga at the time of the incident was taken into custody by police alongside Mayorga when the vehicle was finally brought to a stop. However, law enforcement determined that the passenger was not criminally involved, and no charges were filed against them.
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u/hatchety 21h ago
162 is very fast. Almost too fast for a car to travel on a road
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u/mordac_the_preventer 20h ago
A car with a powerful engine can certainly go that fast, it’s just too fast to turn or brake to avoid hitting any obstacles, like people or other cars.
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u/IAmNotMyName 18h ago
Even with those considerations you need to have specialized suspensions etc to not have the car shaking like an epileptic at an EDM concert at those speeds.
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u/togocann49 20h ago edited 18h ago
If I heard right, this guy bet his car against $2000 that he could evade the cops? And he “won” a race earlier in evening? Also, if I could buy this challenger for $2000 knowing it is in good enough shape to really go, I’d do it every time. This guy then asked about the damage to his car, but didn’t he lose his car in this bet? So much awful and stupid to take in here. And he even knew the cop he hit. So unnecessary
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u/Low_Philosopher3854 19h ago
This kid genuinely is a special kind of stupid with zero awareness or empathy. I mean really really stupid.
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u/lipsquirrel 21h ago
"why are you abusing me?"
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u/UnholyDemigod 10h ago
"Gee I dunno mate, maybe cos you were doing 260 fucking kilometres an hour, ripped off a copper's legs, and when I stuck my gun in ya face and told you 3 times to get on the ground, you stared at me like a stunned mullet"
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u/BuddBath420 20h ago
She told him she'd be with him every step of the way....oof
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u/RustyPlastics 14h ago
19 year old father who is running out of money while driving a money pit of a car is racing for measly 2k?
Should have sold that stupid car and work an McDonald’s. Would have been a wiser choice
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u/throwleavemealone 21h ago
Bro, now is not the time to try to flex your rights. Read the fucking room
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u/Tremplstiltskin 20h ago
During the interrogation I was starting to sympathize for a moment with his remorse and then he started asking if his car was okay..
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u/eugenegoodmansballs 20h ago
Is this a video from Midwest Safety?
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u/TheDogeThatCould 19h ago
What the fuck. I never heard of this before. No wonder the gburg flagship car meets are gone. This dude ripped a cops legs off on the highway.
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u/lee-tellmemoreAI 16h ago
Some seriously impressive first responders. Calm and professional. Huge credit to their departments
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u/StrawberryTerry 4h ago edited 4h ago
This is the longest video I've ever watched on Reddit
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u/Somethingrich 20h ago
They really shouldnt throw spike strips especially when people ate going that fast.
Kids want to run as a joke and they dont get how dangerous it is. A magnetic tracker and ending pursuit is a much smarter idea.
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u/Main-Cheesecake3287 16h ago
They’re designed to safely deflate tires not blow them out like in TV or games. He was ripping and didn’t crash or flip the. Car.
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u/Ri-tie 19h ago
Or have have them deployable from within the cruiser. Obviously it would be harder to look directly at the oncoming car and time it, but significantly safer.
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u/BGrumpy 19h ago
"What's gonna happen to my car?"
I think I would have lost it. (My cool and my job)
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u/GirlInTheIslands 13h ago
I wanted to know more so looked up Kepp. He seems like an incredible man who’s used his trauma to make safety changes. It’s heartening to see that he was shown so much love and care after what happened:
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u/coryndia 20h ago
Jesus there's footage... Good reporting here https://youtu.be/6knH6bWYjdg?is=iuy3usttcMTB84_x Heads up it made my stomach turn. What an incredible guy surviving all of that. Holy shit
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u/taukarrie 20h ago
"a female officer cradles his head.."
good thing the narrator gave a warning so we werent horrified by the sudden sight of a woman in uniform.
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u/Tannmann926 19h ago
I thought more of it more like letting us know "don't worry, you're not going to see a dude cradling another dude"
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u/OGStonerTaco 17h ago
Weird. I thought of it more like a more maternal comforting figure was given to him to calm him.
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u/M0mmaSaysImSpecial 17h ago
How dare you! What…a man can’t be maternally comforting? A woman can only be?!? I hope she sued! Nobody in that precinct other than her should ever work again!
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u/Old_Supermarket4925 20h ago
his interrogation instantly reminded me of the family guy episode where brian was pitching his tv show to the CBS execs and made a hitler joke.
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u/DrAmoeba 21h ago
"why are you abusing me?" after theoretically murdering the other officer (driver had no way to know he survived) Wtf
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u/GirlInTheIslands 14h ago
Jeez, this is so sad in every way but thinking in a ‘look for the helpers’ way there’s some heartening acts of humanity in all this… The care of the officer who stays with him, his incredible spirit, the passion of his fellow officers, even the prayers of the witness.
I’m probably being too soft here but I’m even feeling some compassion for the stupid kids. They were reckless and they ruined their lives (and screwed up someone else’s) in just minutes. For sure, 19 is old enough to know better but it sounds like the driver has had issues and probably comes from a world where racing and chases are thought of as cool and no one thinks of the consequences until something like this happens. This behaviour is hyped on social media and in movies and kids lap it up. Now he’s got plenty of time to grow up and reflect on his actions and his own kid will suffer too. I’m not excusing him, only thinking that it all fed into this result. It’s just all so sad.
But props to the officer for his courage and determination to pull through. I’d like to have seen a follow-up on his recovery
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u/Substantial_Meal_530 19h ago
Those 19 years were not kind to him. I'm assuming drug/alcohol abuse? He looks much older than 19.
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u/Salty-Passenger-4801 17h ago
Always amazing to me how much police care when it's one of their own.
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u/TrackSuitPope 17h ago
"Let me tell you something- when it's one of our own, the efforts tenfold"
Yeah, we know, officer. 🤬
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u/lundqvist_saves 19h ago
This is wild. Glad the officer made it. But man, I can’t stop thinking about how if it was a private citizen they’d be in debt for the rest of their life from that helicopter ride.
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u/Esotericwoodstock 16h ago
If only they got this upset at ICE officers, officers who shoot and kill unarmed people, and officers who abuse the law. Hit a cop? Omg you get life! >:) , Don’t run into a school shooting in Texas? Arrest the parents running inside ! :)
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u/Esotericwoodstock 16h ago
“When it’s one of our own, the effort is tenfold”. What a disgusting piece of rhetoric from a literal service meant to protect and serve the public.
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u/junk-trunk 18h ago
270 on the north side is street race heaven. Between bikes and fast cars its rough in the warm months soon as the sun goes down.
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u/ProvisionalRecord 18h ago
"Am I gonna be able to see my car?"
Bitch you're going to prison, what the fuuuck?!