29, How 'bout you just shut the **** up?

To the maninthemachine Also if he did hit the guy (as in hit hit not just had him run into his car) it still isn't an accident because OP purposefully drove in a way that endangered the well being of another person.

To 62- well said!

Your logic is ridiculous, llama612: He blocked the thief with the intention of STOPPING him, not HITTING him. So if a cop intends take down a perp by shooting them in the leg, but the perp dies because he bleeds out, then the cop killed him on purpose? If an architect intends to take down a wall in a house for remodeling, but the entire house collapses, then the architect destroyed the house on purpose, right? You're a ******* idiot, so there is no further point in arguing with you.

Sorry but you deserved it. You don't have any right or reason to get involved in that manner. You are not a police officer and therefore are not entrusted with the safety of the public. I understand you were trying to be helpful but its your requirement to only witness not interact during the commission of a crime.

And again, I'm not saying OP should've done what he did, I'm saying it was unintentional. Still a bad move on his part, but it wasn't on purpose.

Yea and they don't sympathize with people that hit a pedestrian, their or not. What did he steal? ****** aspirin?

I agree that he should be held responsible, but llama is saying "He hit him, so (whether or not it was intentional) he did it on purpose!" which makes absolutely no sense.

MsKati, you are 100% correct! Op is absolutely responsible. If the perp had gotten away, the car could have been blocking the manager, which would have made Op guilty of aiding during the commission of a crime. It is illegal to get involved. A citizen holds no right in the defense of others. The only exception is in a very few states, although Op is from one; Florida, that allows a CCW/CPL hold to discharge a firearm in the defense of someone else. But ONLY when a life is inimminent danger. The specifics are for rape, assault with a deadly weapon, intent to commit homicide. Carjackings are often excluded as an example of the limitations in the law. Maninthemachine- MsKati never states on purpose but responsible. In your examples, yes they would be legally responsible. The point is that no matter how much you think it's wrong, you cannot involve yourself or you are committing a crime and as such you should be prosecuted for it.

No actually it isn't my logic is fine. First off a cop is doing his job when he is in that situation but there is a whole bunch of stuff that goes into cop shootings so just gonna leave that one alone. If an architect did that he wouldn't be a very good architect but your trying to twist my words by putting them into totally unrelated situations. What I'm saying is that by intentional driving in a way that endangered those around him it isn't an accident. Cars kill people people know how dangerous they are OP can't claim ignorance on this he knew exactly what he was doing when he drove his car into a direct path of a teenager who was running so it is not an accident then when he hits the kid or the kid hits him because OP intentionally made that situation happen. If OP had just been driving along normally and suddenly this kid runs out in front of him and he hits him or the kid runs into OPs car then it's an accident it was unexpected and unintentional.