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

Late this evening I was interviewed by France Info Télévision about Donald Trump, Minnesota, and the Grammy awards. (I will bring a special post with the video probably tomorrow.)

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 (check out the eye-opening video) — 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, but the driver is now to be charged with murder attempt. 

So, naturally, while discussing the case of Alex Pretti and (especially) Renée Good 20 minutes later, I didn't forget to mention this news item and the interviewer immediately shot back, saying something like "Well, in France, it was a case of speeding and, until proven otherwise, the person [near Nantes] wasn't gunned down by the police." 

Now, dear reader (American or French or other), be honest: wouldn't you say that the cops in either of the two French police cars would have had good reason to open fire on the deranged driver — especially after he turned his vehicle around and charged right at both of them in the wrong direction? Wouldn't you expect that to be the common sense rule in that case, as well as the law of the land?