Posted on 02/19/2012 10:16:11 AM PST by Altariel
By AUDREY BARNES/myfoxdc
CULPEPER, Va. - Investigators are trying to figure out what led to a police shooting that killed a 54-year-old woman in Culpeper.
A telephone pole on North East Street is where police say the confrontation between Patricia Cook and a five-year veteran of the Town of Culpeper Police Department ended.
Ironically, it began about 75 yards up the street outside of the church Cook attended. And if you had to pick a person least likely to be shot and killed by police, the victim's next door neighbor said it would be Patricia Cook.
“She’s always talked really nice, and always smiling and laughing with you,” said Robin Herndon, a neighbor of Cook’s. “It’s just a shock.”
Investigators say she was shot and killed by a Culpeper Police officer responding to a call about a suspicious person at around 10 a.m. Thursday.
“Some sort of altercation took place and some shots were fired. The vehicle ended up traveling south on North East Street about 75 yards and ended up striking a telephone pole,” said Town of Culpeper spokesman Wally Bunker.
After the initial shots, witnesses said Cook drove her Jeep up North East Street, taking out a street sign before hitting the light pole. There are unconfirmed reports from witnesses that the officer fired more shots as Cook tried to drive away.
Instead, Herndon says Cook, a petite woman with blond hair always in a neat bun, didn't have children of her own, so she would make gifts for her neighbor's children, and always took the time to say hello.
Virginia State Police are in charge of the investigation now. The officer is on paid administrative leave.
Police have not said how many times Cook was shot or what might have prompted the officer fire his weapon.
“The first officer’s arm was caught in the car window or door, and the motorist sped off at 40 to 50 mph. The officer shot he motorist, who was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.
The police officer who was dragged was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.”
I’ll waive the BS flag on this one as well. His arm was caught in a car that dragged him at 50 mph? A person would have pretty serious injuries after something like that.
No, I do NOT believe cops get their arms caught in windows of cars. In the video, the woman’s entire upper body is in the car. But if someone isn’t hanging on to you, it won’t happen.
“As the officer approached the car, the suspect somehow got hold of and dragged the officer about 200 feet at 60 to 70 miles per hour before dropping him.”
Again, the suspect got hold of the officer...
In this one, the cop stuck his arm in the window and ran along side the car.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=048_1242939116
Now, notice a common thread - in NONE of these, did the suspect roll the window up and thus trap the cop. None.
So take your “Internet keyboard warrior and all” crap and blow it out your ass. Even an uncommonly fat donut-eater would be able to get his arm out as someone rolls up the window.
And I noticed something else - in your links, the cop doesn’t start shooting the suspect...
Where is the torn clothing from the “dragging”? The wounds on the officer’s hand/arm? Bullet placements on the car consistent with areas that he would be able to reach if he was being dragged? Scuff marks?
Are the wounds on the murder victim consistent with the angle of fire that would have been necessitated if he was being *dragged*? Why was his arm in the car in the first place?
Why are you so desperate to dismiss and tarnish the non-government employee witness? Why are you determined to defend this officer?
“According to the Virginia State Police release, “...While attempting to retrieve her identification, the woman suddenly closed her driver’s side window trapping the officer’s arm and started driving away dragging the officer alongside. The officer repeatedly commanded the woman stop the moving vehicle. She refused and shots were fired. The Jeep then wrecked in the 200 block of North East Street.”
Sorry. That is not even a plausible lie. It isn’t physically possible to “suddenly close her driver’s side window”.
What makes you think that you are entitled to evidence in an ongoing investigation?
The pictures that the media released do tend to corroborate his version of events.
You are the one who wants to believe that officers go up to random people and shoot them for no reason. Occam’s razor would preclude that possibility.
It would also preclude putting faith in a person who has changed his story and who has a rather interesting past with the police.
What makes you think that you are entitled to these pieces of evidence now? The investigation is still ongoing.
The better question is where is YOUR evidence? You are the one making the claims of "murder".
So, point out the evidence that supports that. I expect you to provide a detailed reconstruction, complete with photographic evidence, sketches, and "angle of fire" to support your version of events.
Oh wait, you don't have any evidence. Just the ramblings of a person with a checkered past and your own deluded fantasies.
Reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit.
My reading is better than yours. I wrote about that:
“I’ll waive the BS flag on this one as well. His arm was caught in a car that dragged him at 50 mph? A person would have pretty serious injuries after something like that.”
IOW, and I’ll keep them small and few for you: I do not think the cop was telling the truth. Caught in a window or door? They don’t know the difference? Dragged at 50 mph, and no serious injuries (”The police officer who was dragged was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.”)
I’ve come off a horse at a lot less than 50 mph. No life threatening injuries, but some pretty good ones.
Unless someone inside is holding on to you, or you are holding on to something, you will not be dragged. And no windows rolls up fast enough to catch a person who is awake.
Your words: “And I noticed something else - in your links, the cop doesn’t start shooting the suspect...”
In the link I posted to you, the officer did shoot the suspect.
You can’t even keep your own thoughts straight. I guess it must be the government implant that is doing that right?
Translation: you cannot answer those questions, nor can you answer why anyone who claims to have been dragged by a car failed to gain extensive wounds from so being dragged.
Nor did you explain how she managed to trap him in the windows of re vehicle which used *cranks* to raise and lower the windows.
All the time? A few other instances don't make it "all the time". It's still rare.
THIS time, in this case, does require the officer's arm to be caught up in that particular window, since the claim is it was rolled up on his arm, including the implication that he could not remove it. I've lost count of the logical fallacies you have contained in your own posts, this thread, but this latest post is filled with #36 from this list http://nizkor.org/features/fallacies/.
But since you're a pig, and we all know how they lie (almost ALL THE TIME) most of us here are smart enough to not take your word for much, particularly when it concerns other LEO's which you have taken up the cause to be a keyboard commando for.
The insults and rudeness you have been tossing around on this forum since your arrival, indicate a low level of maturity. We have enough members of that type presently, without help from you.
Perhaps you'd be better off going back to the LEO echo chambers which you'd grown bored of?
Hope you choke on a donut. It might even be the best public service you yourself could presently do for this nation. Liars? We have plenty already. You wouldn't be much missed, or difficult to replace.
I have more faith in the witnesses at the scene than in an officer who insists a witness changed his story and expects us to believe that he was dragged by a vehicle going 50 mph and failed to sustain serious injuries from the process.
Poisoning the well is still a logical fallacy—and still you attempt to do so.
Why did the officer have his arm in her vehicle at all?
OK. I believe you found a case of a cop killing someone instead of just arresting them. It isn’t that hard, unless you are STUPID enough to hold on to a speeding car...or so STUPID that someone can roll up their window without your noticing.
As for government implants - if I had one, it would have come during my 25 years in the Air Force. Fortunately, when my TS clearance ended, so did the implant...
Had he been dragged, I expect that the dash cam would not have been oh-so-conveniently “malfunctioning”.
A very fitting picture,,,
A cop investigates a report of a suspicious loiterer hanging around in a school parking lot. The cop confronts the suspicious loiterer and the loiterer, rather than simply hand over valid ID to the investigating cop, tries to roll up her window and flee the scene while the cop is standing right next to the loiterer’s vehicle. The cop shoots the school parking lot loiterer and now she’s dead.
Does that about wrap up this latest episode of ‘Tales of Darwin’?
(shrug) I guess the moral of the story is, just hand over your freaking driver’s license if a cop asks to see it.
Stay alive. There’s plenty of time to run around in circles screaming, “Tyrannical oppression!” later.
Wow you are stupid. Dash cams do not record all the time. They only start recording when your blue lights are activated. The officer never turned the blue lights on. In fact, given the type of call it would have been strange to turn the blue lights on.
We don’t know that she refused to hand over her ID to the cop. That’s what the same cop who shot her *said* she refused to do.
We do know the officer claims to have had his hand in her vehicle. There was no legal reason for his hand or arm to be in her vehicle.
We do know the officer claims to have been *dragged* when his arm was trapped by the windows-which-roll-up-via-crank; meaning that we are either discussing an officer who either has extremely slow reflexes, low intelligence, and/or who is a very poor liar.
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