Police officer runs over and kills man lying in Massachusetts roadway

tragic

but if he hadnt been run over by the cop, somebody else would have, or he would have frozen to death.

don/t pass out drunk in the middle of the road

Laying in the road and he got ran over, am I missing something.
What, I guess he was getting ready for college and that filthy pig snuffed'em on purpose?

seeing who reads deeper, and who does not. that is all.

We need to find out this guy's Facebook so we can post pictures of him smoking weed to justify why he was ran over, the cop obviously felt threatened.

Squished!

All in all it's just not a good idea to lie down in the roadway. Better to lie down where the traffic can't get to you.

So reading the article it was dark and the road unlit.

Do you have a point of some kind for posting this?

Okay, this sucks, but dude shouldn't have been laying in the middle of the road.

I lived in Central Utah for 25 years, and I worked swing shifts - one night I was driving home at like midnight and almost ran over this old Native American dude laying in the middle of the road, trying to commit suicide.

I almost had a fucking heart attack.

I flipped around and the guy behind me came even closer to hitting him than I had - we waited there for the EMT to show up because the old guy was totally refusing to move or communicate with us in any way.

I have cousins that live down in Moapa, NV (on the rez) and they told me that it happens all the time down there - the Native American elders get done with shit and just lay in the middle of the road, or on the train tracks, depending on where they live.

if you READ the THREAD. But its GLP. We don't expect many to read a FRESH thread, let alone one pages long

When its a white on white crime your comments are more friendly. Racist asshat.

There is a stupid game that is played in some rural communities.

Where youngsters, teens, and young adults think its fun to play a chicken like game where you lay in the middle of the road (generally on the line) at night time and see who chickens out first.


That, or he simply passed out from being too drunk/too high and at 4 in the morning visibility would have been low and his ass got ran over.

No, your point isn't obvious.

Unless your point is that the officer wasn't identified?

Is that it?

Maybe you could be forthright instead of putting people down.

Maybe the thread would have better legs if that was your point and you stated it.

But I'm guessing as you are being obtuse.

2015 Darwin award winner.

At least the dumb ass cannot reproduce now.

I don't believe he was lying down in the road. Cop was distracted on cell phone and ran him over. I demand cop's cell phone records.

Why would you think that?

Because it's plausible and should be considered instead of taking the officers word at face value, after all, he killed a person.

Because I see distracted cops all the time on their phones and sippin' DD's coffee. Just show his phone records.

Yeah, was the guy that got run over black?

I live on the cape. Something like this is very unusual for that area. Chatham is a very ritzy part of the cape. I wouldn't doubt it if this had to do with a drug overdose. What most people don't realize is the cape has one of the highest rates of heroin use per capita in the country. They deal with drug overdoses on a daily basis. My bet is the kid overdosed and passed out. Regardless, it should still be investigated and the officers cell records pulled. If he wasn't paying attention and this could have been avoided then the cop should be held responsible like the rest of us would be.

I'm also wondering why officer didn't see him laying there before he hit him. It seems strange to me that he didn't. At 4 in morning seems like not much if any traffic and officer could have swerved to avoid him unless it was a narrow road maybe. Why wouldn't the headlights pick up a large object in the road directly ahead on a possibly deserted street?

I hope the family pursues it to get answers before anything can get covered up if that is what they are doing.

Watch them say next it was a racist thing for the cops to run him over.

You tell em brief ...the suspect had that orificer fearing for his life...so its justified,right brief?

Ummmm???? was the cop driving with his eyes closed??????? headlights off???

You'd think if he was driving on an extremely dark road he'd have highbeams on anyway...


Where's the dashcame?


Something stinks....

headlights??????????????????????????????

I am always looking out for deer getting in the roadway. Never thought about some kid sleeping on the highway.

i was traveling 50 EDIT * MPH on a highway

and clearly saw a deeers body laying in the road

i was able to swereve out of the way

he must have run out of bullets.

Just to be clear here, Chatham is Cape Cod and there are NO street lights on back roads

highway lighting does help you see farther ahead i will agree