Posted on 10/10/2017 6:11:31 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
After crashing her BMW into several cars at high speed, college student Cariann Hithon sat behind the wheel as a noisy crowd gathered around her. Onlookers filming on their smartphones yelled for her to get out of the damaged car. Somebody hollered: “She drunk as sh*t.”
Uniformed Miami Beach police officers walked up. For a brief few seconds, it appeared nothing more than a routine, if harrowing, car accident on South Beach.
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Not true. Police are given leeway on who they choose to protect. That’s a fact. It will always be on the individual citizen if they choose to save someone or themselves. The Supreme court has time and again said it’s not the constitutional duty of the police to protect someone.
“Leeway?” What in hell are you talking about?
This is not a question of protection in general - as in body guards or home security.
We are talking about stopping a deadly dangerous perpetrator behind the wheel of a car she is using as a deadly weapon, on a spree of crashing and running over people!
Its idiotic to think any cop worth the badge they wear would talk about “leeway?”
Those cops giving Antifa a pass were wrong for not doing their job.
And the cops involved in this shooting would have been even more wrong because deadly force was required to stop the level of danger presented by the dead woman's behavior.
Shoot her again...
If she hadn’t been killed, she might have made a fine jailhouse lawyer after this stunt.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Lawyers ended that option when they started pushing plaintiffs in their wheelchairs in front of juries, hitting the legal lotto jackpot. She wanted to become the very thing that killed her. The police are now trained that if they shoot, shoot to kill. No wheelchairs.
At the risk of stirring things up here).... I am not sure that standing in the path (or potential path) of a vehicle is good police procedure. This justification for deadly force (we had to shoot her because she was going to run over a cop) was so overused that many police departments put in new policies whereby deadly force was only allowed where the driver was using a weapon in addition to the vehicle itself. Those policies were often later modified, as is the case with this department, where there was a threat to drive into a crowd (such as seen in recent terrorist attacks). Here the threat from the perpetrator was to cops standing in the street. Personally, this sounds more like the police executing someone for running down one of their colleagues. A great loss to society? Probably not. But my personal preference is for a blanket rule against police shooting drivers to stop vehicles unless the driver appears to be attempting to mount a terror attack, which was not the case here. I anticipate heads exploding over this comment and it is not my intent to allow drivers to run down police or ordinary citizens but I don’t go in for the police as judge-jury-executioner model.
Uh-oh. We know where this is going to go.
And why not? Did daddy pay off someone to get the charges dropped? If she'd been made to take responsibility for her behavior the first time, this wouldn't have happened.
This is another case of affluenza. She had a BMW. The punk who shot the Tex Tech officer last night had a BMW.
Every Cop v Black shooting I'm aware of ultimately started with the 'victim' refusing to follow the officer's instructions. Usually with some overt action.
Simple solution, do what the officer instructs. Keep your hands in plain sight at all times.
A BMW is a nice ride for a college chick........
And who gets to determine that, the officer on the scene who only has a split second to react or you, the after the fact arm chair judge sitting at home?
Dad’s a retired USN CAPT? I find that hard to believe.
So this woman runs over a policeman is killed. So what?
My Episcopal parish had for years celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with a party featuring food and booze in the middle of Lent. Then we got a new priest. He said that he would countenance this if and only if we had a service that day before the party started in the name of St. Patrick, so as to emphasize the religious aspect of the day. He also said that if you didn’t show up for the service, don’t show up for the party. That sounded fair to me. I showed up at the appointed time. There were maybe 5 people in the pews, and nobody else showed up. I’d brought a bottle of 21-year-old single malt Bushmills’ Irish Whiskey, which was party enough for me and the priest. I had no criticism of the priest and told him so - “F” the rest of them if they can’t take a 1/2 hour out of the day to remember exactly who St. Patrick was and why he deserved a day.
Maybe he could have just shot the steering wheel out of her hands/sarc.
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