The Daily Mail (U.K.) usually doesn't put a leftist slant on the news. Here is a story where at least the headline writer did exactly that. First, read the headline.
Four teenagers including high school football star aged 14 to 16 are killed in horror crash after cop cruiser used PIT maneuver to stop them speeding at 111mph - as horrifying photos show their mangled wreckage.
The "PIT maneuver" is a technique used to stop a fleeing car, and was done by a Florida Highway Patrol officer.
You will read a quite-long-for-newspaper story almost to the very end, before learning the police knew the car was reported stolen. Then you learn this.
Two of the teens that were killed in SUV were wearing ankle monitors, while three had active warrants, reports WLBT. Some of the occupants also appeared to be wearing ski masks.
In other words, regardless of athletics, this was a car occupied by juvenile criminals engaged in a felony activity - car theft - and another - failure to stop when signaled by an officer to do so, not to mention reckless driving. And at least two were repeat offenders.
You and I shouldn't have to read to the end of a long column to learn that the victims fled because they were previously in trouble with the law. Had they stopped they would have been locked up for violating probation.
