This is what got him squished, ""His behavior was despicable," Adams said. "They yelled to him; they asked him to surrender. He did not surrender.""
I think what killed him was the bulldozer on top of him, not his attitude. Not the interpretation of his attitude. A bulldozer.
The question is, why was the bulldozer on top of him?
TCrow's answer is that the police intentionally put it there. It appears to be your answer as well. There's simply no proof of such a thing from the article linked.
And, you are incorrect to wit, "...a state trooper along with the game commission employee, (a game commission employee most likely was a game warden with full arrest powers, just like the trooper sitting next to him), followed him in a bulldozer." Trooper probably said, keep going, the hell with the screaming.
That's a lot of supposition? It could equally be said that the game commission employee is an equipment operator who simply was in the area doing something else and was asked by po-po for help and gave it. In fact, that's even more likely.
Plus, if the guy could get through to where he was on foot, why couldn't a trooper or game warden get through it as well?
I don't know, but I would guess the tens of pounds of gear the police carry make them a little less nimble when trying to run through the woods. Additionally, they only had the motive of catching a suspect, whereas the suspect clearly had the motivation of not being caught, like his buddy.
And just where did they get a bulldozer from anyway? They are not just just sitting around in wait for such use chasing down people.
Which is why it is more likely the game commission employee was an equipment operator who happened to be in the area and not a sworn deputy.
And ... the State destroyed, and cleansed, the crime scene.
That's the accusation. Not sure how one would prove that.
And ... not too much of a "chase". The D4G XL has a max forward speed of 5.6 mph. And ... When the helicopter saw the position of the guy relative to the position of the bulldozer and transmitted that information, the trooper should have commanded the bulldozer to stop and stepped out and continued on foot to apprehend the fellow displaying, "despicable", behavior.
Is that what your years of searching for suspects in thick brush and training to do has taught you? I personally haven't had those experiences, or that training, so I go by common sense: The helicopter saw him, the guys chasing moved at a max forward speed of 5.6 mph, with the strong implication that the suspect (who was evading arrest) would continue to evade arrest and likely was not in the same spot due to the slow-moving, large, loud piece of machinery coming at him.
Maybe the guy was dumb and got run over. Maybe the guy tripped and got knocked out and never knew it was coming. Maybe the guy had a death wish. Maybe the guy thought, "this is like a waterbed - the weight spread out over such a large area won't hurt me" and stayed in the area knowing the track was coming over him. Maybe he was stuck, but didn't want to give up his position so he stayed silent while the bulldozer came at him. Maybe he yelled "stop stop stop, I give up" but the bulldozer was so loud the cop and equipment operator never heard him. Maybe the cop and sworn deputy game commission bulldozer operator saw the guy and aimed for him and ran him over on purpose - moving at a max speed of 5.6 mph and the guy was too slow to move out of the way of the bulldozer.
Which one of those things sounds most likely to you? Which one of those things sounds least likely?
The helicopter pilot probably said, "Hey Tim. It looks like the fellow scurried under a thicket right in front of you. Stop right there." Trooper Tim said, Hell with that, and told Ranger Rick driving the thing to continue until the screaming stops. Both of those cretins in the dozer should fired and be tired for murder.
Yeah, in the whole wide world of "probably", that's certainly within the realm of possible, but way outside the realm of probable.
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