A Boring Dystopia

I mean, you joke, but there was a police chase like this about a decade ago. A black couple in Cleveland were driving past city hall, and their car backfired. A policeman "claims" he mistook it for a gunshot. So he began chasing this car.

It turned into a 45 minute chase all over Cleveland. Four cop cars joined in the chase, resulting in the chase ending in the parking lot of a school. When it finally ended, the cops opened fire, shooting 137 rounds at 2 people in a car.

This was the year AFTER Tamir Rice, in the same city. So they had reason to fear the police "just doing their job".

After they searched the car, they found no gun. No evidence of a gun. Nothing illegal in the car. Just 2 dead bodies that they had shot with 137 bullets.

When the cops faced trial, the judge admitted that the cops were in the wrong, were guilty of murder, and had acted under false pretenses of the law.

However, because they could not determine which exact bullet killed them, nor whom of the 8 police officers fired them, they determined that nothing could be done legally to hold the cops accountable to face consequences.

As a Clevelander, yes I'm still upset.