I’m sure there’s culpability all around, but it appears the cop…likely rented out on OT day…decided to jump on his car when he failed to stop. Now Scottie’s being charged with vehicular assault on a police officer. Unreal.
Having escorted and driven with VIPs for a good part of my adult life, I’m pretty sure he thought the cop recognized his plainly marked official PGA vehicle and was waving him through…looks like it was raining, so very likely had his windows up too.
Or maybe he was just another pretentious asshole who got what he deserved…guess we’ll eventually (or never, LoL) find out.
Regardless, it’s a bad scene all around… And I get that cops these days are spring-loaded to defend themselves from attacks, and a venue like this is primed for a no-kidding international terrorist attack, so who knows what level of briefing the cop got right before he went on duty. Hell, a couple of ‘middle eastern migrant’ (one on the terrorist watch list) just tried to
crash the gate at Quantico, so they were almost certainly briefed to be aware of this risk.
That said, whatever happened to cops being trained to de-escalate situations like this? Rhetorical question of course…fewer and fewer critical thinkers are going into police and other public sector “service” jobs these days. We reap what we sow.