YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE

Let me start by saying no one deserves to be shot in the back while running away from a cop -- or suffocated or beaten half to death while in restraints. But for fuck's sake, if a cop pulls you over, comply with their instructions.

Don't argue, don't resist if you're being cuffed, and don't try to flee the scene. I don't care how much attitude the cop's giving you or whether you have a bench warrant for unpaid parking tickets or a bale of ganja in the trunk ... comply!

Unless you're Mario Andretti or Steve McQueen in "Bullet," you don't stand a fart's chance in a windstorm of outrunning the cops in a high-speed chase.

At best, you're gonna wind-up compounding the charges you're already facing. At worst, you're gonna wind-up dead.

Just once, I'd like to hear an activist or a community leader stand up and say this after yet another traffic stop that results in a death or something dangerously close to it.

I'm no cheerleader for the police. I have my own personal stories about run-ins with bad cops. But fleeing the scene or getting into a physical altercation with a cop is only gonna end one way. We've all seen it happen too many times already. Please, knock it the fuck off! ...