his partner s vehicle crashed into smith the judge said quote people say all kinds of things in the heat of the moment or in stressful situations. the difference is stockley did kill anthony smith and as a former police officer do you think the judge has a fair point? whether or not it s a fair point or not i m not sure. but as a police officer, we get involved in these stressful situations time and time again. especially in a city like st. louis and baltimore and others. there has to come a point you learn how to deal with your emotions in a high-speed pursuit and what would be stressful for someone especially, an average citizen, you have to get to that point, you have to work at that, it s part of the profession and to get to the point you re going to make a statement like that during a high-speed pursuit, it s definitely unprofessional. do we as people say things that we regret and should not have said during stressful