[Windcatcher]

"When some one takes off after being pulled over, the cop has to assume the worse."

This is where common sense needs to take over. He pulls her over, in the hospital parking lot. She's clearly frantic, pleads to be let go, that her father was having a heart attack.

Full stop. Hmm. Frantic woman, driving fast to the hospital. Immediate family member having a heart attack. Could she be lying?

If there is even one common sense brain cell operating, the answer has to be, at a minimum, "most likely, no -- she's most likely telling the truth." But of course, he's in robot mode, doesn't note the setting or her demeanor, and treats her as any other vicious speeder.

Sorry, but that just doesn't fly.

[Michael.SF.]

I watched a second tape of the stop,this one was of a longer duration then the first, one shoiwing her give her license and registration to the cop. The article above tells a blatent lie, specifically: When Stabins went back to his car to run her plates and write a ticket, the woman waited three minutes, but then took off and drove a short distance to park her car.

Short is relative and he assigns motive for her reason for taking off. She was fleeing the cop (from his POV). That was where she blew it. She had no logical reason to flee after waiting.

The lack of common sense was on her part.