Posted on 08/19/2022 12:37:39 PM PDT by lowbridge
An Oklahoma woman who was being detained in the back of a police car is accused of slipping out of her handcuffs, grabbing an assault rifle and opening fire - and the wild incident was all caught on video.
It happened just outside of Oklahoma City.
According to deputies, the woman, identified as 36-year-old Rachel Zion Clay, was only being detained for erratic behavior and wasn't going to get arrested.
"While in the back seat of a patrol car, she was able to get her wrist free from the handcuffs and the handcuffs were put on properly," said Grady County Undersheriff Gary Boggess, who spoke with KOKH-TV about the incident.
Boggess said the woman was able to reach into the patrol car's console and grab a rifle.
"There's several switches, one is a gun switch to unlock the gun lock and she found it, unlocked the gun lock, and was able to retrieve an AR-15 rifle," said Boggess. "Then she was able to figure out how to put a round in it, put it on fire and she fired approximately 10 rounds at our deputies and a civilian."
In footage from the police car's dashcam, the woman is seen holding the rifle and shooting it through the back window.
Clay barricaded herself in the car and surrendered more than three hours later. Authorities say she tested positive for methamphetamine.
Both the officer and civilians sustained non-life threatening injuries and have since been released from the hospital, according to authorities.
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If she’s a skinny meth addict, the cuffs may not go small enough to hold her.
No. You’d have to have transformer hands, I mean ones that could turn into a tiny pickup truck, to get out of handcuffs so tight that they begin to cut off your circulation. That’s how to properly apply handcuffs.
“Well, she screwed that up real good, didn’t she?”
She’s real lucky she’s not dead. Whether that’s also to the benefit of society in general remains to be seen.
In my experience, cuffs are not generally designed with female wrist sizes in mind, and some of the female persuasion have more flexibility in their hands, allowing one to partially “dislocate” a thumb, and slip out of the cuffs.
You’re supposed to have about a finger thickness of space before you lock the cuffs, to avoid pressure from the cuffs damaging a nerve or cutting off circulation. That’s plenty of room for some people to slip out.
Ol Biggun’ gots loose and cut loose.
Nah, she is a FR chubbo lover’s delight.
Three hours? Shoulda called a sniper and put her down with one shot.
Vid indicates that she is very well fed.
So why was she in the back of the patrol car and in handcuffs?
Why did you leave a weapon back there with her?
How horrible that she had an assault riffle that is a war weapon. How did it get there inside the police car. Don’t tell me that the police have AR-15s with ten round mags. Are they at war?
Hiding handcuff keys is one of those things that tweekers think is cool. I guess before decriminalization there was probably a 50/50 chance they’d end up in handcuffs on any given day , so it may have been practical. But, as in this case, out of the frying pan, into the fire.
It appears she was in the front seat. Anyway… This is another lesson in law enforcement. fuster-cluck.
Is all of that supposed to be nearly rocket science?
Ugh….
I the movie “John Wick”, the character “Miss Perkins” was able to dislocate her thumb, slip her hand out of the handcuffs and kill the guy holding her.
I hate when that happens!
Nope. Just crawling around, barking.
There’s a way to get out of handcuffs if they’re not locked.
Had a pair of them when I was as a kid and played around with them till I stumbled onto it.
Just need a thin but stiff strip of paper or aluminum.
But if you screw up you can cut off the circulation to your hand.
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