Paul O'Neal's Family Is Not Going To Like This Opinion About His Death

  Lesson Learned: if you steal a car, flee from the police and try to run over the police while resisting arrest you are liable to get shot dead by the police. You know, crime doesn’t pay and all that. Apparently though that is something  quite a number of people in our society today don’t understand or just disagree with. Apparently they feel the police need to make car theft and resisting arrest safer for car thieves.

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I’ll simply say that I disagree with the opinions of the O’Neal family, their spokesperson Mr. Green, and their attorney, Mr. Oppenheimer.

The aggregate picture painted by the footage released today of the Paul O’Neal shooting shows a felony car theft and high speed chase that put numerous lives at risk and nearly saw a Chicago Police officer run down and killed by Mr. O’Neal.

Officers responded to what they perceived to be (rightly, in my opinion) an attempted vehicular homicide of a police officer at the first vehicle, followed by what appears to be a intentional head-on collision that could be perceived as two more counts of attempted vehicular homicides of police officers. Further, the officers in the vehicle struck head-on by O’Neal thought that they were being fired upon right before the collision, and believed that they we chasing an armed suspect.

According to Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1 (1985), the fleeing felon rule limits the use of deadly force on a fleeing suspect to those occasions where “the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious bodily harm to the officer or others.”

Paul O’Neal put multiple lives at risk and used the vehicle he allegedly stole as a weapon against three Chicago police officers, two of whom thought that the suspects in the car had been shooting at them.

Paul O’Neal posed a significant threat of death to Chicago police officers in his felonious pursuit.

While officers may have violated department policy, they did not apparently break the law in shooting a dangerous criminal.

If Paul O’Neal’s family did not want him shot, perhaps they should have taught him not to use a stolen car as a weapon against police.

Read More…See the various police car and body cam videos.

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