Posted on 06/19/2013 8:32:15 AM PDT by Altariel
Bottom line: if this was a private citizen (not a cop) who performed the EXACT SAME actions, you'd be calling the father a thug for attacking the motorcycle rider. Then you'd give the shooter kudos for exercising his G-d given 2A rights.
Some of you people are capable of being despicable hypocrites.
How do you know he was driving carelessly? The girl might have darted out in front of him.
Of course, it is the cop, not the four year old, who is the victim.
I forgot, we must defend our government employees at all costs, Comrade.
After all, when it is your daughter, your niece, your granddaughter, or your female relative who lies bleeding, and the governement employee who struck her believes his *occupation* is more important justification to relate than a *fervent, sincere apology for causing a tragic accident*, at least you’ll have the satisfaction of saying:
“Oh, you’re a police officer, that’s different then. I thought you were a mere mundane who struck my daughter/granddaughter/niece/female relative.”
This is obviously a difference in values. My mom was injured in a serious accident. The guy fled the scene of the accident. I never thought of hunting him down and administering a beating. Stuff happens. And my mom wasn't even darting into traffic like this little girl - she was standing in the middle of the road between lanes and the moron hit her.
I can’t fathom of a single non-government employee who would say “take it easy, I’m a ________” in response to such an accident.
But you are welcome to prove me wrong.
Have any links demonstrating otherwise? Non-government employee strikes a child and tells the child’s relatives to “take it easy, I’m a _______”.
I’m sorry to hear about your mother.
However, you are comparing two different bad responses: fleeing the scene of an accident, and suggesting one’s occupation trumps an accident victim’s relatives emotions.
Yet the fellow’s occupation somehow justifying his actions never occurred to you, I hope. I doubt you would think better of the fellow who hit your mother whether he were a cop, a librarian, a football player, the town drunk or a priest.
Occupation is irrelevant-—apologizing to the victims and making restitution for the wrong committed is what matters.
The girl was out with her 18 year old cousin.
Here’s how I see it.
Cop is on bike, and in a hurry, not paying attention.
kid and 18 year old care crossing the street, biker doesn’t see them, till he has to bail.
Cop bails, hits and injures kid who thankfully doesn’t die.
I’m a cop. I know I just made a huge mistake and I have a dad running at me.
The first response of the cop should be to call for emergency assistance. He may not have his phone on him because he ditched. His first thought, (and would have saved the life of the father), should have been, “hang on, let me call an ambulance”.
The cop doesn’t have very long, say a couple of minutes after ditching to make up his mind. He might not have even gotten up before the father was on him.
Tough situation here - but there has to be a better solution than shooting the father and shooting to kill.
No, the four year old girl was obviously the victim.
Well said.
Thank you.
Most cops have basic (and annual) first aid training. They are also trained to identify themselves.
It is perfectly normal to act on training in situations that you have trained for. It also serves the purpose of letting the bystanders know that he will not flee the scene of the accident and is trying to help.
This cop did nothing wrong and you should get over your knee-jerk irrational hatred of all things LEO.
Many of them may be your allies in TEOTWAWKI.
I would have been so devastated from hitting that child that shooting someone would be the last thing on my mind.
“The careless ones are the irresponsible father and cousin”
One, the cousin was with the child. The child wasn’t alone and wasn’t unsupervised. 18 is well old enough to watch and look after a 4 year old.
Two, do we have any independent witnesses to corroborate the story of the cop?
Three, even if the child (who is too young to know), was hit by the cop, the cop is still responsible for endangering the life of the child. It is the responsibility of the motorist to drive with sufficient care.
Four, the cop shot to kill the father. He escalated the situation after thankfully avoiding two people die.
“you cop-haters on FR”
A cop driving with undue care is a cop who’s putting the lives of other people at risk for his convenience.
A father who was out enjoying a quiet dinner while his child and a cousin were out on a walk - is now dead becuase of this cop.
I hope they get a gigantic payout.
“This cop did nothing wrong and you should get over your knee-jerk irrational hatred of all things LEO.”
A fatherless, injured four year old would probably disagree with you.
Different circumstances for Zimmerman.
Bm
The person(s) responsible for the accident are the 18-year-old cousin and the 4-year-old girl for walking into the street in front of a moving vehicle.
Especially those in charge of Chicago.
I am completely appalled at what I am reading on this thread.
If one actually READS what happened rather than the headline, it is difficult not to despise the relatives of the little girl and sympathize with the police officer.
And yes, I know I wasn’t there, and there are a lot of details I don’t know, but I know what emotions the headline produced, and I read the story, so I know what that says.
Sheesh. Some of these Freepers...
Ahh, so now a four year old is responsible for a government employee traveling at such unsafe speeds that either (a) directly striking the child with the bike or (b) bailing from the bike are the officer’s only options.
Do you typically sympathize with people of any occupation traveling at such unsafe speeds that their only recourse is to bail from their vehicle in the hopes it will miss or directly hit a child with said vehicle?
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