Posted on 03/29/2010 9:32:28 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
PLACERVILLE (CBS 5 / AP) ― Police shot and killed a woman who stole an ambulance and led them on a chase before ramming three patrol cars.
Placerville Police Chief George Nielsen says she was posing a danger to officers because she was using the ambulance as a weapon.
He says it began Sunday when the woman, who was about 40 and wearing hospital gown, left Marshall Hospital through an emergency room entrance and drove away in an ambulance.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbs5.com ...
Police are out of control in this country....
I don’t follow you.
Maybe others will LEARN from this and stop stealing vehicles. I have no problem with cops getting tough on criminals. A car, a plane, a truck can ALL be used as weapons. One less lunatic isn’t a bad thing.
Actually, the woman was wrong and out of control.
And you make this statement based on what?
Certainly nothing you could have read in this article.
Not a good career move.
She may have seen this video.
The story on CBS news about this is pretty scarce on details.
Without knowing more, I wouldn’t say the police over-reacted. The article says they were chasing her through city streets, and that at one point she put the ambulance in reverse and smashed into the squads behind her, at that point an officer fired a shot at her.
I don’t think the officer over-reacted. If she hadn’t gone in reverse and rammed the officers, I’d say they might have over-reacted.
She attacks a patrol car with an ambulance and you say the POLICE are out of control?
The use of deadly force on someone ‘using the car as a weapon’ always made me a bit uneasy, too. Although I need to hear more about this incident to draw any conclusions.
Death by cop. I wonder if she was terminal
Well, that’s one more psychiatric patient we’ll never have to take care of on the public dime...
I think Fox was being sarcastic
more detail from sacbee
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/03/29/2639851/placerville-woman-shot-dead-by.html
Have you or someone close to you ever been in the system?
pics from the local paper..u can see the pics but u cant read the article unless u pay.
http://www.mtdemocrat.com/multi_media.php?id=101.1&pt=photo
She was probably sick of seeing Obama on the TV all the time.
didn’t Raquel Welch do this in “Mother, Jugs, and Speed”?
and John Edwards following, a close second
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