Posted on 06/10/2008 4:42:30 AM PDT by Fundamentally Fair
1. Silva was driving drunk with her kid in the car. She was driving on a suspended license and was driving erratically. She should be charged.
2. Officer White is back on the job (desk duty) while the investigation “continues.” Interesting, since this article says that, “There was ‘insufficient evidence’ to charge Silva with anything related to striking White's car with her own…” Officer White’s claim is that he had to shot to protect himself because Silva rammed him.
for later
bull-dyke with guns alert.
Too bad he missed.
Sounds like Silva and the cop should be serving a bunch of jail time — all over a dispute over a little piece of road.
If a “regular citizen” sat in his own car with the windows rolled up and fired a handgun into another occupied vehicle for ANY reason, particularly if one of his rounds hit an 8 year old child, he/she would almost certainly be arrested, charged with a crime or crimes, and then spend a good deal of time in jail or prison.
The police, the judge and the “press” would lecture that “regular citizen” about how shooting is NEVER the answer, and that he/she should NOT have stopped and confronted the aggressive driver in a parking lot, but instead should have driven to the nearest police station while calling 911 on his/her cell phone.
I wonder why this same advice is not valid for an off-duty cop.
There are obviously two “classes” of citizens/firearms-owners in this country. Cops (whether ON duty or not), who are apparently allowed to protect themselves as they deem necessary, and “the rest of us”, who are not.
PS - Ms. Silva was driving drunk with her kid in the car. She should go to prison.
Well, the shooting started after a good part of the alleged erratic driving. However, some reports have said that Silva panicked and hit Officer White’s POV after he waved his gun at her.
bull-dyke with guns alert.
I must have missed something.
BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!! Well said. One set of rules for them, one for us.
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Too bad he missed? ahh I see you are a Judge Dredd fan. Judge, Jury, and Executioner.
Judge Dredd: I am the law! Put down your weapons and prepare to be judged.
I am now sick. Destroy the witness. The cops are really pushing this one.
I hope the little boy is OK. The woman should face charges for driving recklessly with her child in the car, but I don’t know what that policeman was thinking to just start shooting into the car. I would have hoped a police officer would be LESS likely to panic and start shooting randomly into places with innocent children in them than other people, not more.
Clearly the woman is crazy and put her son in danger.
However, the officer did not exactly comport himself very well procedurally and as a result an innocent child was severely wounded.
He could have done a much better job.
If accurately reported, obviously Ms. Silva is no saint, but Officer White is toast! Nothing that occurred justified the use of deadly force, and by no stretch of the imagination will he be able to convince a review board otherwise.
Why did he wave a gun at her? Isn’t that a crime for the rest of us.
‘However, the officer did not exactly comport himself very well procedurally and as a result an innocent child was severely wounded.”
Huh? You talk as if he made a mistake on an accident report. He shot TWO people, one of which was a child. he should go to jail for attempted murder or at least assault with a deadly weapon.
“He could have done a much better job.”
how so, perhaps killed the both of em?
Seems to me they both need to go to jail here, and both need to be slapped with child endangerment as one of the charges.
Maybe “wideawake” has recently read my latest book: “Understatement for Bloggers”.
“Seems to me they both need to go to jail here, and both need to be slapped with child endangerment as one of the charges.”
Agreed they should both go to jail. How is displaying a firearm and shooting two people without cause “endangerment”? What she did is endangerment. What he did is aggravated assault involving a firarm.
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