That is quite the loaded headline. If you read other accounts it merely states that she has hired an attorney and she will be interviewed when he arranges it. And why shouldn't she keep mum for the moment???
The off-duty cop didn't talk to "investigators" on his own. This is from an earlier article:
"Poorman said the officer was interviewed at the Oceanside police station with his attorney, a peer support officer and his supervisor."
So for anyone saying, "what's she got to hide"???? Well what does the cop have to hide that he needs his attorney, a peer support officer, and his supervisor to help him with his statement for???? Shouldn't he just describe what happened, his wife was in the car with him, she would certainly back him up since it turns out that she works as a dispatcher for the Carlsbad PD.
And why didn't they take his statement immediately??? How long did it take for him to round up his attorney, a peer support officer, which I assume had to come all the way from San Diego 35+ miles away, and his Supervisor, also all the way from San Diego 35+ miles away, at 10:00 pm on a Saturday??? Wouldn't it seem better to take his statement at the scene before he had hours to possibly conjure up a story???
Just one of the perks of the badge....
By Kristina Davis and Matthew Rodriguez
UNION-TRIBUNE
2:24 p.m. March 19, 2008
OCEANSIDE -- A woman who was shot by an off-duty San Diego police officer in an apparent road-rage incident has hired the same attorney that former San Diego Chargers player Steve Foley hired after he was shot by an off-duty police officer in 2006.
The woman, whose name has still not been released by police, has hired attorney John G. Phillips to represent her.
Detectives are working through Phillips to try to get a statement from her regarding the shooting.
Foley hired Phillips following after the linebacker was shot near his Poway home on Sept. 3, 2006, by off-duty Coronado police Officer Aaron Mansker. Mansker, who was driving home from work in his own car, had tried to stop Foley for erratic driving.
Foley, who later pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor drunken driving charge, has filed suit against Mansker and the city of Coronado.
In the Oceanside case, police have said San Diego police Officer Frank White fired into the woman's car in the parking lot of a Lowe's home-improvement store on Old Grove Road near state Route 76. The shooting occurred about 9:15 p.m. Saturday.
The woman's 8-year-old son also was shot and wounded by the officer.
--http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20080319-1424-bn19foley.html
So, if I read this post correctly, you don’t want to assume the woman is guilty, just because she lawyered up. It’s her right, and is probably the smart thing to do.
I wish you’d give that cop the same benefit of the doubt.
Or are you with John Robie? All cops do is kill innocent people, according to him.
You sure seem to be in accord with that.