rant · moment 10 of 21
LAPD's Bizarre Restraint During the Chase
from 146 - Small Town Girl · #146
2 min
Tim contrasts LAPD's usual violence with their sudden reluctance to use a pit maneuver during this chase, endangering the whole city instead of the girlfriend in the passenger seat.
- Tim describes a three-hour high-speed chase where a lunatic drives on sidewalks and wrong-way roads while cops avoid action to protect the passenger.
- Police decision to let him endanger everybody—children, mothers, innocent drivers—seems like a bizarre new woke tactic.
- Tim argues the restraint is actually about ratings; the station lets the chase play out for three hours because they have nothing else to cut to.
- Fox 11 cuts away mid-chase to show the final episode of Empire because Jussie Smollett's fake crime rates higher than the real one unfolding in the community.
- Station literally tells viewers to follow on Facebook Live if they don't want to switch to Empire, assuming the audience is brain-dead and will abandon the actual emergency.