No, Not Minneapolis But Nantes: Car Chase in France Leads to Pulverized Police Car and 3 Cops in the Hospital with Serious Injuries (Video)

Late this evening I was interviewed by France Info Télévision's Loïc de la Mornais in a segment of Sur le Terrain (In the Field) called le Trumpinoscope, about Donald Trump, Minnesota, and the Grammy awards, and whether the opposition of American stars to Donald Trump is effective or simply symbolic.

Right before I was scheduled to go on, the station showed a news item — Trois policiers grièvement blessés après un refus d'obtempérer près de Nantes (vidéo) — about three policemen who were seriously injured (one with internal bleeding) and hospitalized near Nantes after their police car was pulverized by a car that they and another police car had been chasing when it turned around on the highway and drove straight into their vehicle. Incredibly, nobody was killed (check out the franceinfo.fr news video, with its haunting depiction of the rest of the police car), but the driver is now to be charged with murder attempt. 

In the full 1:54:38 show, the police car chase mentioned is broadcast between 1:03:17 and 1:05:48 (while the American report can be seen between 1:08:54 and 1:31:13, with myself appearing between 1:19:29 and 1:25:00). 

So, naturally, while discussing the case of Alex Pretti and (especially) Renée Good, I didn't forget to mention this and the interviewer shot back, saying "But in France it was actually a case of speeding, and the person [near Nantes] was not gunned down by the police." Really? As if that matters…

Now, dear reader (American or French or other), wouldn't you say that the officers in either of the two French police cars would have had good reason to open fire on the deranged driver? Beforehand? Indeed, would you not expect that to be the common sense rule in that case, as well as the law of the land — in any country?

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