Posted on 10/16/2001 3:10:50 PM PDT by truther
A Westchester County, N.Y., police officer, who was injured Sunday while trying to stop a van carrying Hillary Clinton that had run a Westchester County Airport security checkpoint, said the vehicle was driving so fast he feared it was a terrorist attack.
"I didn't know if we had a terrorist," Officer Ernest Dymond told the Washington Times late Tuesday about the troubling incident that has been largely hushed up by most of the rest of the media.
When he learned that he'd stopped not a terrorist, but Sen. Clinton, Dymond said he "was even more agitated that [her Secret Service driver], of all people, should have known" better than to run the checkpoint.
According to Dymond, Mrs. Clinton's car came barreling toward his post at a full 35 mph. Dymond was so concerned that he was witnessing a terror attack that he risked life and limb by running alongside the fast-moving vehicle while pounding on the windows.
"What the hell are you doing?" Dymond reportedly shouted at Clinton and her driver as he clung to the black van. Only after Dymond threw his shoulder into the vehicle while banging on its side did Clinton's car come to a halt, about 100 yards beyond the checkpoint, the Times said.
It's not clear whether Sen. Clinton ordered the car to keep going despite Dymond's repeated orders to halt, but the officer told the Times her driver was "quite agitated" when he was stopped and ordered to produce identification.
In the process of stopping Mrs. Clinton's vehicle, Officer Dymond injured his shoulder and was later treated at Saint Agnes hospital in White Plains.
Secret Service sources later described the altercation as the result of "a misuderstanding," with Clinton's driver confused about whether or not he had clearance to proceed.
Once Dymond was satisifed that the New York senator was not a terrorist, the Clinton motorcade was allowed to proceed to a private jet waiting nearby to take her to a fund-raiser in Syracuse.
Sen. Clinton's office did not return a call seeking an explanation why she declined to immediately tell her driver to stop upon Officer Dymond's order.
Knowing history of her life, I woudn't bet on it.
She's lucky she got away with just a bang on her window!
Do I need a very big sarcasm alert here?
Everytime I hear a new story about that arrogant piece of trash, Hitlery, not the policeman, I get so enraged that my blood boils. Even Hell is too good for her destiny.
Who says that was a mistake?!?!?!?
Yep. Another Bin Laden funraiser in Syracuse.
Does this "woman" ever learn?
I guess it will take a while before we all learn to just clear the way when the Zil limousine with flags on the fenders cruise by. We have so much to learn from the Soviets. [/sarcasm]
(like she has done before)
Where's that puke flash when you need it?
(D)em be the fugliest pod o' bwitches on da' planet, you betcha' !
Time for .50 bmg's with orders to destroy any vehicle running a checkpoint.
Nice. They bribed another officer.
He's about the only one. A private jet, eh. Guess commercial air travel is too risky for Her Heinous (or for X42 and Chelsea, for that matter).
"Hillary's Car Mistaken for Terrorist Vehicle
Who says that was a mistake?!?!?!?
I heartily concurr.
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