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Posted on 08/07/2023 7:58:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Tennessee man is accused of slamming into another vehicle while attempting to elude authorities, and then throwing powdered fentanyl into the faces of two officers after his arrest, police said.
Rodney Bates, 31, of Chattanooga, faces 14 charges, according to Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office online booking records.
Booking records show that Bates was arrested on Friday and charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder, three counts of possession of drugs for resale, and one count each of reckless endangerment, evading arrest, resisting arrest, theft of property, possession of drug paraphernalia, driving on a suspended license, failure to maintain lane, a seat belt violation and a tinted windows violation.
According to an arrest affidavit, two Chattanooga Housing Authority officers attempted to stop a black Jeep Cherokee for a window tint violation, WZTV reported.
According to one of the officers, Bates, after speaking briefly to them, hit the accelerator on his vehicle and hit a gray SUV while attempting to flee, according to the television station. Both vehicles were totaled, police said.
Officers apprehended Bates, who had cash and a white powder that was believed to be fentanyl, Chattanoogan.com reported. Officers searching the Jeep found a black backpack containing multiple baggies of what appeared to be blue fentanyl pills, along with white powder, marijuana and a digital scale, according to the news outlet.
One officer put Bates in the rear of his patrol vehicle.
According to the affidavit, Bates was observed “throwing money to females nearby” and possible narcotics.
One officer said he noticed that his patrol vehicle began to rock and discovered Bates with “his hands towards the front of his person and hunched over” in the back seat, WZTV reported.
The officer said that Bates had climbed over three rows of back seats and grabbed the evidence in the vehicle’s trunk, according to the television station.
“I then made contact with Rodney where he then took crushed fentanyl in large baggies and threw them at my face” and the face of another officer, the officer said, according to the affidavit. That left both officers “completely covered in powdered fentanyl.”
“It is my belief that Rodney in that moment was willing to take my life and the other officer’s life to evade prosecution and get rid of any criminal evidence,” one officer said, according to Chattanoogan.com.
Rodney...I don’t need to look.
As expected...
NPR shamefully did a story saying “some” of the stories of the law enforcement officers hurt by exposure to fentanyl during arrests or when examining evidence at a crime scene were exaggerated or are not actually from fentanyl! They found two “doctors” to say it’s hard to INHALE airborne fentanyl that way-—while supposedly rebutting touching it with skin on hands or elsewhere. Admitted the weekly reports of officers hospitalized were from “something” harming police but didn’t think it’s always fentanyl. From May 16, 2023 NPR website—
All Things Considered By Brian Mann
RE: “Bates was arrested on Friday and charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder, three counts of possession of drugs for resale, and one count each of reckless endangerment, evading arrest, resisting arrest, theft of property, possession of drug paraphernalia, driving on a suspended license, failure to maintain lane, a seat belt violation and a tinted windows violation.”
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But his mother undoubtedly still says he’s basically a good boy who is a victim of racist police./S
That should have resulted in Rodney having a sudden weight gain of at least ten lead slugs.
S onOr at the very least a hickory shampoo and sidewalk sandwich.
He done always he’p his gramma carry d groceries, y’all.
Rodney is an English name .
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Attempted murder?
"Housing Authority officers"
Anyone who watched LivePD got to see it happen live (at least once).
One of the officers had touched some powder substance, and passed out within seconds. They had to call an ambulance for him. He did rceover, thankfully.
Powerful and dangerous stuff thanks to our Chinese and Central American gang friends.
Nah. There’s no longer justice in America. His attempted murder will be disregarded.
I suppose ... but these officers may catch up with him at a later date.
Justice delayed is not always justice denied.
Sounds like Rodney needs a Vidor drag race.
What a bast__d!
What a bast__d!
Something doesn't add up here. Either contact with fentanyl is not as deadly as we have been led to believe, or the powder thrown onto the officers was not full-strength fentanyl. The latter is entirely possible in a street-drug situation, I suppose.
In either case, if the scum believed he was harming or even killing the officers, he should be punished to the maximum.
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