[DavidI]

Wow! I am disgusted by some of the comments made about the cop being stupid. He was trying to do the right thing and paid for it with his life. His judgment may have been unsound, but that is in no way a means to berate him. In this case, the racers were directly responsible for the officer's death. For those of you who condemn this cop, consider this........When someone is shooting at you, a complete stranger (cop) will race to your aid putting his life in danger enroute, and then put himself in a gunbattle where he may be killed.

Being a cop is a very honorable profession. I just nominated two of my officers for the Medal of Valor during a shootout with a man high on PCP. This guy had shot his wife and was holding his 3 young children hostage at gunpoint. Two cops ran up to the apartment complex while bullets were whizzing by their heads and picked up the children. Each cop placed his own body in the line of fire protecting the kids. That is not something we are paid to do. That is not part of the job. That is raw courage in the face of extreme violence. We do this stuff on a daily basis for complete strangers.

Think about that the next time you say a cop is as dumb as a bag of rocks.

David