Dash-cam footage released from scene where Kentucky deputy shot woman, 19, to death outside party

NY Daily News ^ | 4/29/14 | Philip Caulfield

[smokingfrog]

Police in northern Kentucky have released dash-cam footage from the scene where a deputy shot a 19-year-old woman to death as she left an outdoor party in her car over the weekend.

The footage, shot from inside Boone County Sheriff Deputy Tyler Brockman's cruiser, does not show Brockman firing four bullets through Samantha Ramsey's windshield after she alleged rammed him on a road outside Hebron early Saturday.

It only shows Brockman approaching Ramsey's car and her appearing to drive away.

Moments later, a plume of smoke enters the frame and bystanders can be seen weeping in horror.

Boone County authorities were investigating the shooting.

The sheriff's department said it was in self-defense after Ramsey, who had three others in the car, ignored Brockman's orders to stop and slammed into him.

Brockman ended up on the hood of the car before opening fire. No one else was injured.

Sheriff's spokesman Tom Scheben told the Cincinnati Enquirer results of the investigation would be turned over to Commonwealth Attorney Linda Tally Smith, the Boone County's top prosecutor.

[A_perfect_lady]

Hm... yes... this might be an example of two people with very bad judgment colliding. She for trying to drive away from a police officer (never do this, folks) and he for flipping out and opening fire.

[Talisker]

I wouldn’t want to let someone that was drunk back onto the highway, but it’s probably not legit to shoot them to prevent it.

Gee, ya think?

[Salamander]

Maybe he thought she had a dog in the car.

[onona]

I wouldn’t want to let someone that was drunk back onto the highway

There in lies the rub: How would he have known their state of drunkenness ?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Yeah I don’t take no lip with this cannon on my hip
Let me tell you boy it ain’t no toy
I wear a hat just like a mounty I’m the sheriff of Boone County
Be careful boy cause you’re in a heap of a trouble boy

If you’re tryin’ to push your Caddy from Nashville to Cincinnati
You have to come across Boone County line
As you’re drivin’ through you better mind your P’s and Q’s
Cause this here stretch if interstate boy is mine

Now you might outrun my old Chevrolet but you can’t outrun my own two way
Lion’s awaitin’ at the station to hear from me
Now you’re gonna be a wishin’ I believed in extradition
Cause I’ll chase you all the way back to Tennesee

Yeah I don’t take no lip...
[ steel ]
So far I guess you been lucky but now you’re in Boone County Kentucky
And I don’t know how things are in Tennessee
I’m the roughest you ever saw around here I’m the law
And it’s been that way since back in ‘43

Yeah I don’t take no lip...
(I run the grocery store down there and I pump the gas and I’m the dogcatcher too yeah
The judge that’s me put up your bond for you if you like
And if you happen to wreck your car on the way to the courthouse)

[RKBA Democrat]

Of course the important part was that the deputy went home safely.

Or something like that.

[Charles Martel]

There used to be a difference, in law-enforcement training, between suspects fleeing arrest and suspects attacking an officer. Now, it seems that a car speeding *away* from the cop is seen as a lethal threat to said officer. Well, a threat to the cop's sense of authority, anyway. Empty the magazine!

There are, of course, situations where the line is blurred. There was a parking-lot shooting last year or so, where shoplifters were approached by a police officer and ordered out of their car. The driver hit the throttle and started to back out of the parking space, scooping up the cop with the open driver's door. He shot the driver. IMO that was within the definition of "lethal threat". This one is not as clear.

[RKBA Democrat]

“Maybe he thought she had a dog in the car”

Good point. There might have been a deadly pit-chihuahua in the car.

[Secret Agent Man]

if she tried running the guy over after he asked her to stop, and she tried hitting him to where he’s on thetrunk of anothercar and she hits the car, i’d kinda say his life is in actual danger.

now if she just sped away and he opened fire on them i wouldn’t be with him on that.

[lavaroise]

It is the urgency scam of the days... from global warming and executive orders to cops who think they are all about emergency like legal “paramedic social justice”, the brutality of the urgency is all the crypto dictatorial rage these days.

[RareCTCnstve]

In the picture with the car on the flatbed you can see a tight cluster of 4 projectiles........headshots.

[yarddog]

Thanks, that is it. I used to listen to it on the country music station. I always thought it was funny and also a bit of truth.

[smokingfrog]

Well, there were other innocent people in the car he could have killed by mistake. /s

[RKBA Democrat]

“LEOs need to reform the rules that allow cops to shoot too kill drivers using the ‘I felt my life was in danger’ defense.”

Naaaah. It won’t change until cops find themselves in prison.

[Third Person]

The
Urgency
Scam

Right on.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

Well said. This reminds me of the Andy Lopez case here in Ca where a trigger happy deputy shot a teen with a toy gun. Just found out the DA here doesn’t have the “resources” to investigate the case so the local PD is “investigating.” Good times here in this incestuous little LEO neighborhood.

[SomeCallMeTim]

This cop would be in BIG trouble if I were on the jury.

[wideawake]

The main issue is this: was she coming at him with the car or not? It seems like she wasn’t, and he killed her just because he was mad she was getting away.

[hadaclueonce]

Roid rage?

Test them all after a shooting.

Holster sniffers will all claim that they are.

I want to see the documentation.

[drunknsage]

How does one draw ones weapon while being “run over”. Was his weapon already out and pointed at the teen driver. Did he fire at a fleeing vehicle full of teenagers from the front or rear?

With a vehicle full of kids, is there any way this shooting was justified? If the officers story is true and she almost ran him over, why didn’t he get out of the way and radio it in. If he didn’t know the car was full of kids and didn’t have situational awareness he never should have fired. A Lawyer would destroy this guy on the stand.