Court Opinion

ID: 9724061
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 10:43:16.863694+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:54.995163
License: Public Domain

SACKETT, Judge
(concurring specially).
I concur with the majority opinion in all respects and decide the case on the same basis as the majority.
While not advanced as an argument for affirmance, I find the facts surrounding the high-speed chase additional evidence supporting affirmance.
A motorcycle allegedly ran a red light and did not stop for Chelfs siren and red light. Chelf then followed the motorcycle in a high-speed chase through the City of Davenport at speeds up to eighty miles an hour, running stoplights, and failing to stop at intersections.
The danger Chelf created driving at such speeds was not, in my opinion, justifiable for stopping a person who ran a stoplight. The high-speed chase endangered the life and safety of a large number of persons in the area of the chase. Fortunately, no one was injured in the chase but, weighing the need to apprehend a person running a red light with the danger posed to the public by the high-speed chase at eighty miles an hour through the city, I find the chase further evidence the officer used unreasonable force in the arrest.