Hey niny,
It was 1:30 am; fires burned; street signs torn down; bottles, bricks, and trash cans were being thrown; cars trapped by walls of hostile people; and,one of the officers had his nose broken by a bottle.
It was a MOB of 3000 drunk, hostile people versus 6 policemen who had become totally surrounded. What did the mob plan to do with bricks, bottles, and steel posts in their hands? They weren't there to make a campfire and sing Kumbaya.
I support law-enforcement on this one especially - because that's what they were trying to do: enforce the law. So sorry a young girl got killed - but I will never believe that the police's intent was to kill anyone. If I was ever around something like that I wouldn't wait for the police to show before I'd leave - I would've gotten as far away as I could long before that. But this young girl didn't leave - and now she's dead. A tragic mistake on HER part.
I get so tired of these harmful critiques from people like you AFTER incidents/accidents happen. Given what they know now, I'm sure those 6 cops might have chosen to do something differently - but they did their best considering it was 3000 to 6.
Who truly had the intent to harm here? The 3000 rioters or the 6 policemen? Open season on young women - how dare you say such a thing! It appears it was open season on private and public property, unarmed drivers and 6 policemen.
A PERSON IS SMART; PEOPLE ARE DUMB, PANICKY, DANGEROUS ANIMALS - AND YOU KNOW IT!
I do have trouble with them firing wildly into a crowd resulting in an innocent bystander being killed. The BPD commissioner has already copped a plea on this.
Lets not try to blame the victim here....shes dead and can't respond to your posts.
Nicely done!
"Open season on young women - how dare you say such a thing!"
The only fatality in this incident was caused by the police. You support the police, so presumably you support the killing of this young woman. See how you are?
Anyway, the police have acknowledged responsibility for her wrongful death. It is only people like you who defend their mistakes that don't get it.