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Posted on 06/10/2023 8:59:37 AM PDT by george76
A police officer in South Carolina is being praised after her quick-thinking helped a woman who mouthed "help me" during a traffic stop. Her alleged kidnapper was wanted in a shooting nearby, police said.
The North Myrtle Beach Police Department said Officer Kayla Wallace was patrolling in the early morning hours of May 28 when she saw a white Jeep go through a red light and quickly pulled it over.
Wallace saw a female driver and a male passenger. When the woman opened the door she appeared distressed.
"I gave loud orders for her to close the door," the officer wrote in the police report obtained by CBS News. "The passenger also opened his door and stated that the windows don't roll down. The driver then told me that she felt like she was going to throw up."
"While the male passenger wasn't looking at the driver, the female silently mouthed 'Help Me' repeatedly...
That prompted Wallace to remove the passenger from the vehicle and placed him in the back seat of her car before going back to talk to the woman. The driver then told her that the man had just shot someone and she had been forced to drive at gunpoint.
"She stated that she was under so much stress that she did not see that the stoplight was red," the officer noted in the police report.
Moments later, a "be on the lookout" alert — or BOLO — was sent over the radio from dispatch: a white Jeep SUV was involved in a shooting incident in the county, the alert said, a spokesperson told CBS News. No license plate was provided.
According to the police report, dispatch also described a Black male wearing blue jeans and blue and white Jordans, which matched the passenger's description. County law enforcement were then called to the traffic stop.
"[Officer Wallace] did not know anything about the shooting prior to her stop," Officer Pat Wilkinson told CBS News. "She was being a proactive police officer and simply observed a traffic violation 30 minutes before the end of her shift."
That led to the arrest of 29-year-old Collins Bates of Columbia, who remains detained, according to CBS affiliate WBTW. He faces charges of attempted murder, kidnapping and possession of a weapon during a violent crime in connection with a shooting.
Bates allegedly shot someone, threatened another person and forced them to drive him away from the scene, according to warrants obtained by the station.
Wilkinson also told CBS News that a pistol was found under his seat in the car. Bates was also reportedly charged with unlawful carrying of a firearm.
And the author of the BOLO fired over mentioning race.
Yes, but mine - the seventh, all the others currently in therapy - keeps calling in sick.
“Columbia”
I assume they are talking about SC.
jk
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There are a lot more police like this. We just see the really bad ones, because they’re the ones that make the news more, as they should”.
A skilled polygraph operator by the name of Bob Gately confided in me that he was depressed that so few MDPD Deputy Sheriff applicants were free of drugs.
(Miami).
What does that have to do with what this officer did?
Drugs don’t make for better police officers.
Once again, what does that have to do with the article and what the officer in North Myrtle Beach did?
“he was depressed that so few MDPD Deputy Sheriff applicants were free of drugs.”
It is a shame how much alcohol use there is among police officers.
The reference to bad cops:
“We just see the really bad ones, because they’re the ones that make the news more, as they should”.
The late Bob Gately, a straight-arrow civilian MDPD employee had been referring to Marijuana and cocaine—the primary drugs “enjoyed” in Miami.
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