Time to defend the cops

The police officers of Hazelwood and one officer of St. Louis City are on probation while an invesitagation of police abuse is on. The day after the big 11 minute car chase (or van chase as the vehicle was a full size van), protestors were lined up, quickly calling the police involved in the chase and beating, racists. Only one pereson there seemed to have a brain. He was the one holding the sign in favor of the police. A few days ago, in Hazelwood stretching into the city, a police officer was in hot pursuit of a van. The van apparently rammed the cops car and then sped away. The police immeadiatly took up the chase. The van had no apparent thought to the saftey of others as he wove wreaklessly in and out of traffic. The van also sped past several school buses. The van sped along Martin Luther King Drive, in the turn lanes, running stop lights, stop signs, making illegal turns and the like. The chase lasted approximately 11 minutes, news channel 2 caught the entire chase on their cameras in a helicopter. It took three cop cars to ram into the van before the van finally stopped the suspect then took off running, with the cops in pursuit. They finally caught him and tossed him to the ground. In the video you can see the officers hitting him, but you also will note that the suspect is fighting back, thus making the hits necessary. The officers finally got handcuffs on the guy, and escorted him to a patrol car. There they pushed him against the car to search him for weapons. They told him to stay there, but he didn't listen, he kept moving away and spitting on the ground. They finally got him into the cruiser and had more trouble shutting the door. The suspect kept preventing the officer from shutting the door by placing his legs/ or feet against it or outside the car. The next day, people were all too quick to jump in and accuse the police officers of racial profiling. However, at the time that the officers were pursuing the van, they were unable to determine the race of the driver. Like that really matters as the driver had no thought to the safety of the other drivers on the road. Apparently the driver's lawyer says that his client was looking for a safe place to pull over. Yeah right. I don't call driving a reckless speeds, passing school busses, and getting rammed by three patrol cars just to stop the vehicle looking for a safe place to pull over. Running away from the cops doesn't help that theory either. I am supporting the police officers actions that day. They did exactly what they are supposed to do; get dangerous drivers off the road. UPDATE: The car chase began when he failed to pay for gas, and then rammed the cop car who tried to stop him from going anywere. The driver isn't too intelligent if he has that many infractions against him and decides to ram a patrol car and then take off at reckless speeds. The officers are on paid leave. Hopefully, the FBI will soon see that the cops were doing their job and the cops can return to active duty. However, I don't expect this to be anytime soon as there are morons out there who will do whatever they can to impede the investigation. These same morons are the ones accusing the officers of racial profiling. If you ask me, its the protestors who are racial profiling. Well, you can't fix stupid.