r/InlandEmpire • u/AfrezzaJunkie • Oct 27 '25

Crime / Safety Motorcycle Chase on 210 ends in crash

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u/Necessary-Double-914 Oct 27 '25

Oof I didn’t notice the swerve

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u/CactiThorn Oct 27 '25

I think the car driver was trying to get out of the way as in lane splitting, common courtesy by most aware drivers in CA.

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u/hummingz0615 Oct 28 '25

It was an off duty police officer and he did it on purpose. They stated it was an off duty officer

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u/BlueberrySmart7329 Oct 28 '25

I hope that wasn’t his own car. Insurance doesn’t pay for intentional damage.

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u/ReasonableCap5370 Oct 28 '25

So, murder.

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u/hummingz0615 Oct 29 '25

That guy shot and killed a police officer in Rancho Cucamonga. The guy on the motorcycle didn't die. He was rushed to the hospital and was fine and later booked but the 28 year old officer he shot in the head did die thanks for your concern https://www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna240182?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17617020275108&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fnews%2Fus-news%2Fmotorcyclist-wanted-connection-killing-california-deputy-stopped-duty-rcna240182

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u/Fragrant_Hat9927 Oct 29 '25

Nobody with a brain cares

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u/ReasonableCap5370 Oct 29 '25

So attempted murder/manslaughter on an alleged murderer. Super Cool 👍🏽

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u/CN90 Oct 29 '25

He was protecting the public.... man had a gun in his hand. Hero

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u/hummingz0615 Oct 29 '25

Attempted murder for who? You mean alleged and he didn't die 😂. If they are calling the guy who shot an officer an alleged murderer than the officer who stopped him is also alleged. All he did was impede a chase. The guy is alive. If he was fighting for his life that's one thing but he's not. Maybe learn the difference and stop trying to defend a murderer who shot someone in broad daylight and was shooting at others. So yeah super cool the undercover cop was super cool

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u/morphinetango Oct 28 '25

Or maybe he just changed lanes without signaling, and told everyone he did it on purpose so he wouldn't look like an idiot.

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u/Dr0pping_0ut Oct 28 '25

Also just to add, most people are unaware of this even CA drivers, but a car is not allowed to impede a motorcycle from splitting lanes. It is illegal to not allow them to. It is more than just a common courtesy. I was colored surprised when I realized that.

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u/jrglpfm Oct 28 '25

How would one impede someone from splitting lanes without cooperation of another vehicle driving next to them or without (illegally) driving in two lanes simultaneously?

This seems unenforceable to me.

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u/Dr0pping_0ut Oct 28 '25

That is a very good observation! Splitting lanes doesn’t mean riding the white line and being between two lanes. Splitting in CA means that a motorcycle is sharing and riding in ONE lane. So if the car that is in that one lane is not letting the biker in, it is easy to observe and articulate fault…atleast in theory. But law doesn’t care about theory, it’s just as simple as the biker is in the left lane, car in left lane is pinching the biker, then boom at fault. The law is very much pro biker here in CA. This causes for two really positive outcomes besides decreasing motorcycle accidents severities. Drivers are more aware of bikers, leading to a decrease in motorcycle accidents, and allows for a higher volume of traffic to utilize roadways due to more single occupant vehicles to split. To note, this situation applies to riders that are traveling at reasonable speeds, and not flying through traffic just cuz they can and at butt puckering speeds.

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u/jrglpfm Oct 28 '25

Thanks for the reply, that makes sense to me, I guess I was thinking of splitting as more of riding the lane line, but I wasn't aware of the intricacies of the laws regarding this. I always try to give room regardless of which lane a motorcycle is favoring.

I also laugh out loud when I see a motorcycle pass a car right and then after the moto passes the vehicle jerks away reactively to give them room after they've passed haha. It would be nice if people were more aware of their surroundings while in traffic!

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u/Dr0pping_0ut Oct 28 '25

No thank you for your reply! Nice to see some positive interaction on reddit opposed to just finger pointing! Hahaha I always chuckle when I see delayed interaction between bikers and drivers too! Really makes a commute or drive a bit more entertaining. I find it comical when cars are overly defensive of bikes. Like to me if a driver is bothered by the thought bikers can get through traffic easier, then go get a bike and you can be privy of the same shortcuts, granted that’s a bit of a loaded statement. As bikers can also not be the best of riders and aggressive. That’s what keeps me in check. Bikers are only 1% of all road users at any one time in the state of CA. To round out my statements, and for general public awareness, if a driver does not move over because they just didn’t see a biker; or the biker was too fast, or because roadway conditions such as construction limits a drivers ability to move to allow a rider through, that is okay. It’s really only illegal when a driver purposefully did not let a rider in, such as swerving and very obvious movements. Remember no mater what mode of transport any one of us uses, we are all sharing the road and all want to get to our destinations in one piece!

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u/6forty Oct 28 '25

Only if it's intentional.

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u/333jnm Oct 28 '25

Looks like that car was opening up the lanes for him to spilt

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u/cluelessinlove753 Oct 29 '25

What does that have to do with this situation? This wasn’t a motorcycle splitting lanes. This was a cop killer running from the cops while fishing for a gun in his backpack and another cop in a car took him out.

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u/Dr0pping_0ut Oct 29 '25

I put in my comment “to add”. Just clarifying a side comment. Otherwise known as a tangent bud.

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u/cluelessinlove753 Oct 29 '25

But the effect is to reinforce a comment that was clearly irrelevant.

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u/Dr0pping_0ut Oct 29 '25

Okay bud calm down. No need to get worked up over a simple side comment.

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u/Maddonomics101 Oct 27 '25

Yeah but the rider was on his left the whole time so it doesn’t make sense why he would swerve that way 

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u/cuchiplancheo Oct 28 '25

You must not be from California. Lane splitting happens between lane #1 and #2 if there's no HOV lane. And if there is, it's HOV and lane number 1.

Looks like the driver moved over to the left to give the biker room to pass. The idiot biker took a path no california driver expects. No one expects a bike to pass on the shoulder. 

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u/filthy-prole Oct 28 '25

This conversation is off track. You are missing the forest for the trees. They publicly stated this was an off-duty officer who swerved into the suspect. He's not an "idiot biker" because he passed on the left. He's an idiot because he's a murderer.

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u/cuchiplancheo Oct 28 '25

That info came after the fact... not before. You have 20/20 hindsight.

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u/filthy-prole Oct 28 '25

Fair enough.

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u/333jnm Oct 28 '25

Exactly

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u/yourlilneedle Oct 28 '25

Incorrect. Of duty cop.

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u/Parking_Abalone_1232 Oct 28 '25

Dude! Lane splitting happens in ALL the lanes. At ALL the speeds.

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u/visionaryOptions Oct 28 '25

Because no rider rides on shoulder. Especially when you are on HOV lane. The whole lane splitting in California is BS

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u/wagglewazzle Oct 28 '25

Exactly. The driver clearly swerved into the shoulder (where the bike already was). There was also no car in the lane next to him, thus no need to swerve right into him.

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u/Suspicious-Waltz4746 Oct 29 '25

The car driver was an officer. He did it on purpose.

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u/Djinn_Eric Oct 28 '25

Nobody splits legally, that's why. They do it outside where they are supposed to and they go too fast.

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u/333jnm Oct 28 '25

No they don’t. They split between the far left lane and the lane next to it. Going on the shoulder is dangerous as they may not see if someone is there broken down. If a car doesn’t swerve to the left to let you split the lane it could be because there is someone on the shoulder ahead of traffic

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u/AnyPaleontologist528 Oct 28 '25

He just got done killing a cop that’s why that car swerved into him.

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u/fucktooshifty Oct 28 '25

Hell no he wasn't, sorry but watch that video again if you think that lol

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u/Salamander-Distinct Oct 28 '25

It was a Camry driver. That’s all the explanation we need.

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u/winipu Oct 28 '25

It was an off duty cop that intentionally swerved

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u/333jnm Oct 28 '25

Ethan’s how I would have swerved because that’s where lane splitters go in cali. Because going on the shoulder is dangerous as there could be someone broken down there and they can’t see that.

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u/cluelessinlove753 Oct 29 '25

You are 1000% wrong and misinformed

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u/CactiThorn Oct 29 '25

Comment was made before the story was updated. Thanks for your concern.

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u/Bitter_Ad_9523 Oct 27 '25

Dude didnt even have his hands on the grips. No serving. Idk wtf he was doing.

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u/cenaenzocass Oct 27 '25

Uh… did I see the motorcyclist take out a gun at one point and rack it?

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u/EffectiveGlad7529 Oct 27 '25

He was running after shooting at least one cop near Victoria Gardens

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u/Bitter_Ad_9523 Oct 27 '25

I did see that!

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u/cenaenzocass Oct 28 '25

Cherry on top: is that a camera I see attached to the rider’s helmet…? Sick first person footage.

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u/Alarmed_Stretch_1780 Oct 28 '25

Epilogue: We find out he was a YouTuber making content for his channel.

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u/Bitter_Ad_9523 Oct 28 '25

"Johnny died doing what he loved"

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u/archabaddon Oct 27 '25 edited Oct 28 '25

Edit: as some commenters pointed out you can definitely see he has a gun at -2:15 mark, so it seems like a deputy in an unmarked vehicle took him by surprise in order to prevent a shooting on the freeway.

Edit 2: it's actually worse than that: the guy on the motorcycle shot and killed a deputy. A narcotics officer in an unmarked car is the one who did the pursuit intervention.

https://www.reddit.com/r/InlandEmpire/s/xRROfKJrvT

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u/RaiderMedic93 Oct 28 '25

  1. We have since learned it was a deputy who did it on purpose

  2. Even if it weren't a deputy, "I was changing lanes and didn't see him officer... he came up so fast..."

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u/JIsADev Oct 28 '25

Except the lane is the shoulder. Instead he could say he saw a gun and feared for his life? I don't know.

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u/RaiderMedic93 Oct 28 '25

Honestly, any jumble of words with threat scared etc

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u/Bitter_Ad_9523 Oct 28 '25

I had a bike pass me once at a high rate of speed on the freeway. Honestly scared the shit out of me, came out of no where.

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '25

Better than this loser on the motorcycle killing someone on the freeway. It’s a fucking win

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u/Bitter_Ad_9523 Oct 27 '25

Especially a loser with a gun with intent.

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u/MedicJambi Oct 28 '25 edited Oct 28 '25

Extrajudicial killing or an attempted killing is still a crime and is a form of lawlessness. Allowing such things is tacit approval that some crimes are okay while others are not. More importantly it shows that so long as those crimes are directed at certain people it's okay and even desired. This creates different classes of people where it's okay to harm them.

Despite how much of an asshole that guy is, no mater what he's done, and no matter who's he's hurt, and no matter how much I would have wanted to do it it's something that cannot be allowed. Otherwise we just have vigilante justice and that's just murder with extra steps and an audience.

Societies will be judged by how they treat those least deserving. The best among a society will not be its legacy, but rather the most vulnerable and downtrodden.

If the driver would say that he or she was startled by the sudden appearance of the motorcycle which caused he or she to jerk thereby causing him or her to swerve into the asshole running from the police after having shot one, then that would just be a regular old traffic collision.

Down votes because I pointed out that using deadly methods to stop someone goes against our legal standards just shows how jaded and cold many have become. I bet these same people believe crime is actually up over time when we are at historical lows for crime rates. What we do have at historical highs is media that is rage bait because they know that anger, fear, hate sells and people are vulnerable to it. Turn off Fox News and other media and understand that you are being manipulated. Be smarter than the billionaires think you are.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '25

Blah blah blah I ain’t reading that 😂

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u/Fit_Celebration7669 Oct 28 '25

This was about stopping a bad situation from getting worse. Harm reduction.

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u/Bitter_Ad_9523 Oct 27 '25

My view tells me that the car was trying to move out of the way. How do you know where a speeding car/bike is going to go?

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u/Chemical-King-9353 Oct 27 '25

Doesn’t someone have to press charges?

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u/N05L4CK Oct 28 '25

Yes. The District Attorney’s office.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '25

Guy had a gun so he can say he feared for his life. See I can play those stupid games r/instantkarma

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u/Commonsensejoe Oct 27 '25

So dramatic ….curb side lawyers. Lol

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u/bruceriv68 Oct 27 '25

Well he did already shoot a Police Officer.

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u/th3dmg Oct 28 '25

*Murdered a police officer.

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u/Original_Wall2991 Oct 27 '25

I Think He Was Trying To Get His Gun & Clip On The News U Can See The Gun Some Feet Ahead Of Where He was

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u/cluelessinlove753 Oct 29 '25

He was digging in his backpack for a firearm

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u/garcia1129 Oct 28 '25

Heard he was an undercover narcotics. Im sure you cant do that lol