CBS News reports that Miriam Carey was fired from her dental hygientist job in April 2012 after getting into a fight with her bosses about using a handicapped parking space they felt she didn’t need to use.
Carey’s mother, Idella Carey, told ABC News on Thursday night that her daughter began suffering from post-partum depression after giving birth to her daughter, Erica, last August.
“A few months later, she got sick,” she said. “She was depressed. … She was hospitalized.”
Idella Carey said her daughter had “no history of violence” and she didn’t know why she was in Washington on Thursday. She said she thought Carey was taking Erica to a doctor’s appointment in Connecticut.
CBS News reports that Carey’s condo association sued her last December, but they settled in February. It is not known what the complaint was about.
Thx, looks like more is coming out. So, basically, they shot an unarmed unstable freaked out woman. I read somewhere that they shot her as she tried to flee.
“Upon being discharged from the hospital, Carey was given a handicapped parking pass that she used to occupy one of only four such spots in the medical condo building where the practice is housed. The condo association finally put a note on her car asking her to take one of the other general parking spot that are plentiful at the start of the days. The reason being that a large number of elderly people with walkers and others who need handicapped parking come and go throughout the day. Carey refused.
“She wasn’t going to budge, she got all pissed off,” Weiss recalls. “She had that, ‘Who are you to tell me?’”
The association asked Weiss and his partners to speak to her.
“And that got her even more angry,” Weiss says. “She was just a headstrong, stubborn person.”
Weiss describes her a “hot-tempered. He took this to be just her temperament and says it finally led Advanced Periodontics to let her go.
“Right after she had her baby,” he says.”
A 34-year-old black woman, Miriam Carey, with a 2-year-old baby girl, an unemployed dental hygenist of Somali descent from Stamford Connecticut, who had been hospitalized for depression, had some words with a Secret Service agent at the Treasury entrance. Who knows what she was doing there. She may have who mouthed off to the cops, or perhaps her adult passenger (where is he now?) did. Some say she tried to go through the security barrier, but I see no evidence of that on the front of her car.
Anyway, somewhere near 15th and Pennsylvania, 6+ cops surrounded her car with guns drawn, about 6 feet away. I figure the cops started yelling at the woman. They're already freaked out and hopped up because of the Capital Shield 2014 drill that's going on. The woman maybe yelled incomprehensible things back at the cops. Typical auditory exclusion, no communication.
About then, some idiot Secret Service agent that had his booger hook on the bang switch had a negligent discharge and shot her, a sympathetic nerve reaction. She freaked out, backed up and maybe T-boned a Capitol Police Car. Or maybe this is when she hit the barricade, causing them to believe she was a gate-crasher.
The woman bugging out made the cops go nuts, like hornets out of a nest. The cops start shooting at the fleeing car, with complete disregard for what's behind it, or who is in it. One of the moron cops hit a "pop-up" stanchion barrier near First Street and Independence Avenue, upending his car, and freaking the other cops out even more. There may have been another stop here, as some outlets are reporting two 'crime scenes' (though we don't know that she wasn't just an innocent victim of government violence).
Meanwhile, the woman shoved it into Drive and bolted, as the Keystone Cops followed like maniacs, around and around the traffic circle, and then they maneuvered her into the Barrycades, and then gunned her down in cold blood.
Nice work, Capitol Police and Secret Service. What a tragedy.
Pretty hard to blame that on the TEA Party.
They misspelled "murdered"...