Do I think the law in post 66 should be applied in this case? Absolutely not. Has a car been specifically defined as a lethal weapon? I don’t know - I am not an attorney.
Everyone I know has at one time or another made a bad choice, including me. Sometimes bad things happen when those involved didn’t make a bad choice.
If the woman was pulled over asleep, certainly one of the officers choices was to just take her keys and let her figure out her own way to get home. Just really bad choices on the part of both parties involved. And these bad choices will have an effect on lots of other people.
No easy answers to some things.
I meant should that law be applied to the cop who shoved the woman?
Any car is legally a lethal weapon. It’s one reason, the most important reason, licenses are issued.
It is a privilege to have a license.
And it continues to be so after it is issued.
A 110 pound woman can do a whole lot of injury and death behind the wheel. She has much potential to do so, passed out at the wheel, ready to awaken and start driving again.
She was not, at 47 years old, about to cell phone someone responsible at home to come get her.
At 47 Drinking in public, You’re either a drunk, who does this very often or you are a drunk who does this habitually.
Maybe having to peel children off the grill of the front end of the drunk drivers’ car in front of a despondent mother leaves cops in a particular position. I don’t know.