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Her name was Miriam Carey. (the case of the woman shot to death by the Secret Service and the U.S. Capitol Police)
Washington Post ^ | 26 November 2013 | David Montgomery

Posted on 01/09/2026 4:08:55 PM PST by Vigilanteman

“We want to know: Why? What happened?”

So many questions, so much we still don’t know about the case of the woman shot to death by the Secret Service and the U.S. Capitol Police on Oct. 3, 2013, after a car chase from the White House to Capitol Hill. Her 13-month-old daughter survived in a car seat.

“Did we miss something?”

Barbara Nicholson is asking. The office manager of a dental practice in Ardsley, N.Y., is standing in the hygiene room, remembering the woman who used to clean teeth at this chair. Miriam Iris Carey — that was her name. She was one of the best dental hygienists and “one of the nicest people” Nicholson ever hired.

“We’re left with a void and no answers,” Nicholson says. “It’s like she was wiped off the face of the earth.

Nicholson’s voice catches. She pauses and looks away. “She’s missed. She’s very missed.”

Do you remember Miriam Carey? Her remarkably public death at 34 mesmerized us for a couple of news cycles. Then we moved on pretty quickly. I had to look up her name when I first started puzzling over this case. The main thing I remembered was that incredible video — the one showing the two-door black Infiniti surrounded by Secret Service officers with guns drawn near the Capitol Reflecting Pool. The car looks trapped. Suddenly the driver backs into a squad car and accelerates away. There’s the sound of gunfire while tourists take cover on the West Lawn. The Infiniti reappears, making a loop around a traffic circle, and proceeds up Constitution Avenue to what would be the fatal encounter outside the Hart Building.

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KEYWORDS: 2013; 201310; 20131003; capitolpolice; carey; good; isolatedincidents; miriamcarey; mother; obama
Black lives don't matter when Obama's peeps kill them.
1 posted on 01/09/2026 4:08:55 PM PST by Vigilanteman
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To: Vigilanteman

I forgot all about that one


2 posted on 01/09/2026 4:12:56 PM PST by al baby (I miss that ol windbag )
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To: Vigilanteman

Cry me a river!


3 posted on 01/09/2026 4:13:17 PM PST by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months. Is that a big deal?)
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To: Vigilanteman

in the hygiene room

who writes this crap ?


4 posted on 01/09/2026 4:13:58 PM PST by al baby (I miss that ol windbag )
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To: Vigilanteman

Her name was Ashli Babbitt.


5 posted on 01/09/2026 4:15:15 PM PST by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: Vigilanteman

Her name was Ashley Babbitt, and she was murdered by a Capitol police officer.


6 posted on 01/09/2026 4:17:18 PM PST by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months. Is that a big deal?)
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To: Vigilanteman

She was mentally deranged.


7 posted on 01/09/2026 4:17:28 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: Mark

Yes, Ashley was even more innocent than Miriam.


8 posted on 01/09/2026 4:31:04 PM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys many aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: TheDon

This took place in 2013, it has no connection to J6


9 posted on 01/09/2026 4:39:17 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Vigilanteman

I’ll wait until a trustable news source reports on her.


10 posted on 01/09/2026 4:46:51 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Vigilanteman

I remember it well. A terrible thing.


11 posted on 01/09/2026 4:57:57 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: al baby

I was thinking about this yesterday . Didn’t last long in the news cycle .


12 posted on 01/09/2026 4:59:06 PM PST by katykelly
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To: piasa

Neither does the recent ICE incident in Minneapolis, but they all highlight what the mainstream media promotes.


13 posted on 01/09/2026 5:01:08 PM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys many aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: piasa

“This took place in 2013.”

Thanks for highlighting this. Old news.


14 posted on 01/09/2026 5:05:04 PM PST by ChessExpert (Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
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To: Vigilanteman

I had to read that three times before I realize this wasn’t Mariah Carey.


15 posted on 01/09/2026 5:09:15 PM PST by OrangeHoof ("Our property is protected by two pitbulls. They love visitors, especially with marinara or garlic.")
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To: Vigilanteman
The inimitable commentator Mark Steyn had covered this incident in a column he wrote at the time: www.steynonline.com
16 posted on 01/09/2026 5:26:02 PM PST by Captain Walker ("Justice exalteth a nation: but sin maketh nations miserable." – Proverbs 14:34)
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To: Vigilanteman

Short Version: WP dredges up an ancient case with ambiguous details to shift focus away from a case (MN ICE justified shooting) where deadly force was allowed.

Rogue law enforcement officers can’t stop killing innocent (mentally stable LOL) women.


17 posted on 01/09/2026 5:28:13 PM PST by jra
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To: Mark

Thank you for saying her name.


18 posted on 01/09/2026 5:50:38 PM PST by GreatRoad ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act' )
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To: Vigilanteman

No one blames the gun when a LEO shoots someone.


19 posted on 01/09/2026 7:14:45 PM PST by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

20 posted on 01/09/2026 7:51:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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