Posted on 01/11/2020 8:04:19 PM PST by BenLurkin
When a man allegedly drove away from the scene of a 2018 fender-bender, a Seattle police officer told one of the man's friends that the crash left a woman in critical condition, a police watchdog says.
The woman "might not survive," the officer added, according to a report from the Seattle Police Department's Office of Police Accountability.
But the story about the woman's condition was all a trick -- a ruse to flush out the driver, the report said. The OPA says the driver's friends reported that he grew worried in the days after the crash, thinking that someone possibly died in the wreck.
Less than a week after the crash, his roommate found the man dead in his room.
The OPA says the driver's friends reported that he grew worried in the days after the crash, thinking that someone possibly died in the wreck.
Less than a week after the crash, his roommate found the man dead in his room.
[T]he officer told his partner that he would use the ruse if they found the suspect and said "it's a lie, but it's fun," his partner recalled, according to the OPA report.
The officers left the home of the driver's friend after she gave them his number. It's unclear if they tried to call the driver.
After the driver's death, his friends and mother began looking into the hit-and-run. The friend who was contacted by police filed a complaint with the OPA in March 2019, prompting the watchdog investigation.
During the investigation, one of the driver's friends told the agency that at some point everyone believed the driver "had hit and killed someone but that he did not remember it."
"He didn't remember the incident and was freaking out," his roommate told the agency, according to the report.
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I doubt the cop will now commit suicide.
And the problem is?
THIS is yet another “unintended consequence” of not holding those entrusted with upholding the law to a HIGHER standard.
As I stated earlier, if they lie with impunity to the ones they supposedly “serve”, why should the public not lie right back?
The fact that he committed a hit and run and the fact that he was so mentally unstable that he committed suicide far outweighs the actions of the cops in this situation.
Bad Man-Bun day?
There’s a lesson here, folks.
If they’d only told Jeff Epstein that he’d hurt someone in a hit and run, he’d have killed himself.
Roll Eyes. Police are not guilty if stupid people commit suicide.
Ping
Problem is, the cop lied and the guy killed himself.
Paranoid much? How bout another bong hit.
Do you really think police is guilty in this case?
I have questions about this entire story.
It seems like just another attempt to demonize all police officers.
I guess he should have stayed at the scene so he would have known the extent of injury.
There’s precedence in things like this. Girl got arrested and charged with manslaughter for convincing a boy to kill himself. I see no reason why the cop should be above the law in this case.
There's lots of ammo for that, no pun intended.
You’re wasting your time on this one. The suicide was a personal choice of the guy who broke the law when he committed the hit & run. Get lost.
Apples and oranges. Policing is a sort of low level warfare procesuted by the society on bad guys. It generally involves deception and all sorts of psy ops. I really doubt that such an outcome was expected. There are means and methods police should not employ of course but it is not one of these.
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