Is it ever legal for a police officer to ram your car with a pit maneuver? So, let's break this down a little bit and teach you what a pit maneuver actually is. PIT stands for precision immobilization technique. And what that means is you precisely immobilize the car in front of you using a technique that they teach you to do with your car. So, pit means to when you're chasing a car, you can either be on the driver's side or the passenger side. And as you get close to the car that you're chasing, you tap the back corner of the car you're chasing with the front corner of your patrol car. And you do it in a way where when you touch it, you turn slightly to the left if you're doing the driver side to passenger side, or you turn slightly to the right if you're doing the passenger side to the driver's side, and you spin the car out in front of you. When you position your car in a way to to maneuver the back of their car slightly to the right or to the left, it's going to cause that car to spin out. And if you do that at the proper speed, you can end a high-speed pursuit without the loss of life, without casualties to other bystanders, pedestrians, other motorists. It's designed to end a pursuit before it even gets started. But you don't want to use a pit maneuver at high speeds. And if you do use a pit maneuver at high speeds, you have to be able to justify it as deadly force because it can be deadly to pit maneuver somebody at, for example, 109 mph. In that particular instance, I don't think they were entitled to use deadly force. You might could argue a situation where you're chasing a mass murderer or something like that, and you really need to end the pursuit in a way that ends up in this person being captured. and you might be able to justify deadly force, but it it's a really high bar in my opinion. And pit maneuvers should not be done at high speeds. So, when you're a police officer and you're in one of these high-speed pursuits, sometimes you're not really thinking on all you're not firing on all cylinders when you're thinking about what to do. And sometimes officers will do this pit maneuver at high speeds when they shouldn't. But what what they're really wanting to do as a police officer is you're wanting to end the pursuit before this person crashes into somebody. I've been involved in in high-speed pursuits where my supervisor terminated it immediately. He didn't let me chase the motorcycle at 130 mph cuz he knew I'd never catch it. Number one. And number two, it's just dangerous to get at those high speeds. Uh even when you're not in city limits, if you abuse this pit maneuver and you do it at a high speed, it's considered deadly force. It it would be it would be treated the same as if you pulled your firearm out and shot somebody when you weren't allowed to do