Great questions, Squeezer.

A dreadful incident, but I can't understand the "systemic racism" in the thread title. Surely these children were killed and injured by reckless dangerous driving, not racial discrimination?

The system we have in the US includes routinely writing off poor people, Black people, and brown people. Therefore when a high sped chase goes thru such a neighborhood, and eyes don't 'see' the lives resident as precious, we get results like this. In the US education system, people (of all colors) are taught a skewed history that keeps our power systems of each generation in place. Because the system itself is contaminated throughout with the nation's unresolved history (and our unacknowledged pattern of unfairness benefiting white people), any laws and policies are also skewed for white survival, not Black survival. (IMO this 'accident' could/would never have occurred in an affluent white neighborhood.)

Aren't there guidelines in Michigan about high speed pursuits, especially in urban areas? Is the police driver going to be prosecuted for causing death and injury by dangerous driving, and if not, why not?

Of course there are guidelines in Michigan about high speed pursuits, but they are not always followed fairly. It's hard to understand without experiencing the US's much-greater population of US cities. The driver can only usually face police departmental discipline, due to he many layered processes here, and the racism inherent in each step of the processes.

So far, the driver that was eluding the police has bee charged, because that is a much easier burden of proof than would be pursuing charges against the officer... and because the driver (I believe of Hispanic heritage) might be thought to be qood target to deflect the Black residents' outrage.

~S~