Video Shows Chase That Clearwater Police Say Didn't Happen

William R. Levesque, Times Staff Writer

TAMPA ? Clearwater police officials insist one of their officers ended a high-speed chase of Keith Williamson before the motorcyclist was killed in a Feb. 20 crash on the Courtney Campbell Parkway.

"When it was evident that the vehicle was not going to stop, (the officer) called it off," Clearwater police spokeswoman Elizabeth Watts told the Tampa Bay Times in a Feb. 22 story.

On Friday, Watts reaffirmed, "This was not a chase."

But the dashboard video in the unmarked Clearwater police car that tried to stop Williamson shows Officer Nicholas Giordano was right behind Williamson with his car's flashing blue lights and siren engaged just a second or two before the fatal crash.

The video appears to contradict statements by Clearwater police to media outlets in the days after the crash and shows that the chase may have violated the department's policy on ending pursuits that do not involve violent felonies.

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Police Chase Over Drugs Ends With Man Crashing Into Schoolbus Full Of Homeless Children

Chris | InformationLiberation

A Shreveport man who fled from police, ended up crashing his vehicle into a bus full of homeless children, fortunately the children all survived with only minor injuries. The man says he is innocent, which is a bit ridiculous if you watch the video, but the real problem here is this chase could have been avoided if we were not living in a prohibitionist police state.

Via Shreveport Times:

Police say Smith crashed his Ford pickup into the side of the bus after leading officers on a June 5 high-speed chase that started at DiamondJacks Casino in Bossier City and ended with the crash at Murphy Street and Portland Avenue. Bossier City Street Crimes Interdiction Unit attempted to stop Smith near the casino, and that's when he fled. Smith was a suspect in a cocaine distribution operation, police say.

The accident sent 15 children, ranging in age from 4 to 16, to area hospitals. All the children, most of whom were homeless, were later released from the hospital with minor injuries.

The fact of the matter is more innocent people are harmed as a result of prohibition than are harmed as a result of the drugs themselves. Despite prohibition, drugs are still in massive abundance, and in fact they're hugely profitable to distribute specifically because of prohibition. To incarcerate someone over a drug crime not only denies that individual their personal freedoms, but it's done at massive cost to taxpayers as well, who have to foot the bill for these people to be jailed to the tune of $30,000 a year.

Wouldn't it be better to just let people smoke their drugs in peace?
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Police Officer Admits To Fake Shooting & High Speed Chase

Former police Sergeant Michael Blankenship admitted in court Thursday that he broke the law, then lied about it.

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