Minivan Cop Shooting Mom 'Thought About Trayvon Martin' When Officers Fired

ABC News' Good Morning America ^ | September 3, 2014 | Deborah Roberts, Lisa Silvertsen and Roger Lee

[2ndDivisionVet]

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Oriana Farrell was terrified.

The single mother of five recalled an October 2013 traffic stop, when officers wrestled her out of her minivan along a New Mexico highway, and then shot at the vehicle as she tried to flee with her children inside. Video from a police dashboard camera captured the seemingly-routine traffic stop devolving into a tense incident.

“I started thinking about children who have been shot, families who have been shot,” she said in her first television interview that appeared today on “Good Morning America.”

“I started thinking about Trayvon Martin.”

The ordeal began when a police officer pulled Farrell over, alleging she was speeding. Farrell says when the officer walked away from the car without giving her a ticket she drove off, assuming she wasn’t getting one.

“I started pulling out slowly, like we do from any traffic stop,” she said.

That’s when the officer chased her down, trying to pull Farrell out of the vehicle as her children screamed.

For Farrell, confusion gave way to fear when the officer tried to arrest her. Her son Zeke – thinking his mother was in danger – got out of the car....

[colorado tanker]

I saw the video and agree. Still, there are protocols about how the police deal with nutballs and smashing windows with a nightstick and shooting at a car full of kids is not among them.

[grundle]

Here's the complete 18 minute video. After the police officer repeatedly told her to turn her engine off, she drove away. After she stopped, she ignored his repeated warnings to get out of her car. Then she drove away, going far above the speed limit. She repeatedly crossed the double yellow line and drove the wrong way into oncoming traffic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYTqPJvW18s

[Carl Vehse]

In this video (at 00:32) you can hear the NM state police officer clearly say: "I'll be right back. Go ahead and turn the vehicle off for me."

Fifth-column ABCNews media scum cut out the audio in their version of the video (1:17) where the police officer made this statement, and foists Farrell's outrageous lie instead. ABCNews is completely untrustworthy.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Her kid had gotten out, wrestled with an officer and then got back in the van. At that point, it might be ok to assume he was going to retrieve a weapon.

As for shooting the tires, not the best call, just radio to have a spike strip put out.

[Eagles6]

No. This was a legitimate stop and the officer was professional. She refused to sign the ticket and drove off. After stopping her again he ordered her out of the vehicle. She refused. He tried to remove her and her son got out and attacked the officer.

Backup arrived and they tried to get her out and broke a window. She took off leading them on a very dangerous high speed chase through town and traffic.

One officer did shoot at the van as it was pulling away and he lost his job.

This woman was a complete psycho and completely out of control. She could have killed people during the chase.

That charges were dropped is ridiculous.

[colorado tanker]

Did you watch the video?

[Eagles6]

Yes. The whole video, not the exited one.

[colorado tanker]

I guess we have different ideas about what professionalism looks like.

[Eagles6]

Yes, the whole video not the edited one.

[Eagles6]

Did you watch the entire 18 min video?

[Gay State Conservative]

I guess we have different ideas about what professionalism looks like.

Firing on the car might have been unwise.Fortunately nobody was hurt.Perhaps the cop who shot needs to be taken aside.But apart from that I can't see anything else that the cops did wrong...given the circumstances.

[boop]

They dropped the charges against this POS? The one who endangered how many lives, including her own children's by driving like a maniac?

Holy $hit, I can't believe what a world we live in.

The officer was MORE than reasonable with her.

She turned a routine traffic stop into what could have been a tragedy.

He even let the expired license slide.

I can't begin to fathom what would have happened to me if I tried this nonsense.

And to play the race card? Uh, no sale bitch.

She needs to do hard time.

[Ken H]

Was the officer who made the stop correct when he said she had to decide then and there whether she would pay the fine or contest it in court? That seemed to be her main issue during the initial part of it.

I always thought they gave you the ticket, then you had 30 days (or whatever) to either mail it in or contest it. Don't know what the law says in NM.

[MasterGunner01]

“Minivan Cop Shooting Mom...”

Does anyone have a problem deciphering this headline or is it me? Whoever wrote it ought to be sent to remedial writer’s school. It is absolutely stupefying.

[Eagles6]

Says they can refile but I doubt it.

[Vaquero]

Seems they only teach Marx/Lenin in journalism schools now. Writing a cogent piece is less than secondary.

[grundle]

I don’t know.

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