Posted on 10/07/2013 11:54:15 AM PDT by neverdem
A troubled young mother is shot dead and our ruling class applauds.
An unarmed 34-year-old woman suffering from postpartum depression is surrounded by the authorities while sitting in her car, and gunned down in cold blood. She is blocked in. She cannot move. And yet she is killed by heavily armed security officers. Her one-year old child witnesses this from the back seat. Why is this not a national tragedy?
Miriam Carey was a young African-American woman who wanted to better herself. She went to college and graduated with a BA degree in health and nutrition science. She became a dental hygienist. One of her neighbors noted that it was obvious she was educated. She gave birth to her daughter a year ago and began to suffer from postpartum depression. She displayed some irrational behavior and was put on medication.
Thus far it’s not an uncommon story. About 50% of women who give birth suffer from postpartum depression. A friend of mine was on medication for more than 8 years after her daughter was born. This might conceivably happen to my daughter. Or to one of Obama’s daughters, come to think of it.
Then, on October 3, Miriam crashed her car into a security barrier near the White House. She was surrounded by security men shouting at her and pointing high-power guns. Was it so irrational to try to escape, to protect her daughter from men pointing pistols at her? A chase ensued, and she then crashed her car into a median somewhere in the vicinity of the Congress. She was blocked by security forces from several agencies. She could not move. She was unarmed, and alone save for her daughter. In her car, unprotected. And then she was killed...
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In the interview she has a name and a face and gave the place where she worked and saw what happened as Faith in Action —
I have yet to hear anyone deny her report and I have seen video of a female officer running away from the vehicle with the child that confirms it.
Well we can assume he wasn’t a liberal, otherwise we would be hearing about it.
They shot her up so bad she couldn't be identified except by DNA. They knew where to go and block off a street, search her house to see if she had anti-government literature. Or a pressure cooker. Or whatever.
She was of Somalian background, I believe, born in NYC, and that wouldn't have been known at the time of the incident but soon after.
It is not unreasonable for the police in that sensitive location to wonder if the victim, child or car was rigged with explosives.
Still and all, they didn't need to shoot her the way they did. All that hail of bullets, who kows, the cops endangered people more than she did. Then they pass out buttons in Congress. How disgusting! I agree an impartial investigation is in order.
Because the police were protecting the King. So it’s A-OK
Are you referring to some actual incident?
Sorry, I see tires to shoot out first, especially with heads in the car at this point seeing hands on the wheel and a baby in the car.
If the woman was having a panic attack then there was no reasoning with her at that time — but that’s what Tazers are for.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Ruby Ridge was during Bush I. There was no hue and cry. America worships JBTs.
I saw the video of the woman at the White House gate and, while she clearly drove up to the gate, it appeared that she didn’t “crash into it”. The cops/security personnel there (with their guns drawn and pointed at the woman) showed good restraint in not shooting at her when they saw it was a woman with a small child. Props to them.
I have not see a video of the shooting at the final location so I don’t know if she was blocked in or not. If her car was in fact blocked in, the cops who killed her are not “heroes” as they are being proclaimed. If she was blocked in I think it would be a good assumption that all dash cam videos and security camera videos that captured the shooting will NOT be released.
I feel sorry for the child and the dead woman’s family. They certainly are entitled to some honest answers as to precisely what happened. If past behavior by the Obama administration is any guide, they may not get those answers.
I believe you're thinking of the time they boxed her in and she escaped. That's the only video I've seen. They boxed her in later and executed her, after removing the child.
“Have you noticed that everyone of these incident in the last five years is just a little off.”
They all seem a “little off” because you are looking at the news reports hypersensitively, looking for discrepancies and flaws. Well, there are always discrepancies and flaws in news reports, because journalists are hacks. When you find them, you don’t blame the media, but use that to fuel your own suspicions and paranoia.
This from the guy who thinks shooting at the car tires would have resulted in ricocheting bullets and street fragments hitting innocent bystanders.
By the way its not slander to point out that your thinking on this is wrong. The cops are not supposed to be meting out street justice over something of this lack of magnitude.
If the police had arrested this lady she would likely have ended up after a mental health evaluation paying a fine and losing her drivers license for 12 months. That would have been the end of it.
If she was already dead then why did they need to fire numerous rounds at her after they had taken the baby out of the car? Over the weekend Wolf Blitzer interviewed an eye witness that said that the police pulled tha baby out and then fired numerous rounds at the woman in the car.
Paternity.
Dead women tell no tales.
“shoot first and analyze later.” That is outrageous.
Both my dad and my husband were career military officers, and I never heard them say such a thing except in reference to being in a combat zone-DC wasn’t a combat zone the last I heard. This was not a hostage taking or a standoff-the woman could have been fear of HER life ...
I read some of her friends thought she considered herself a prophet. Maybe she was psychic, who knows. Maybe she had a vision of the future that disturbed her so much she immediately drove to Washington to talk to the “Won” and convince him otherwise. It’s terrible she couldn’t forecast her own death. Sounds like something from the 1983 movie “The Dead Zone” to me.
It isn't any more complicated than this. The elites are scared of the peasants. Most of the police state apparatus clamping down as we speak has its purpose in reminding the unwashed who's the boss.
Pardon me-”in fear of her life”...
The terrorists are the ones running the government. They incite fear, and channel it in ways that serve their interests. Pretty much the same as wearing a dynamite vest or shooting up a shopping mall. Just make people afraid and you can do anything you want.
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