Yahoo! News - Sisters question fatal shooting in DC police chase

[Neil Desmond]

http://news.yahoo.com/sisters-fatal-shooting-dc-police-chase-070205353.html: Another sister, retired New York City police officer Valarie Carey, said there was "no need for a gun to be used when there was no gunfire coming from the vehicle."

Interesting situation we have, here.

[donnay]

'There was no need for a gun to be used': Sisters of the slain mom who drove into a White House barricade question police response as they confirm she was tapering medication use for post-partum depression

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2445271/Capitol-Hill-shooting-Miriam-Careys-sisters-say-There-need-gun-used.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

[Tod]

The cops could have EASILY boxed her car in at the capitol building, but three cop cars stayed back from her car, allowing her to drive away.

Why didn't they pull forward to box her in? That would have ended it right there, no one killed, no kid without a mom.


You can see the cars that stayed back in the opening moments of this video. One beyond her car and two more to the left that could have pulled forward towards her to box her in.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddl8aKwF2RA

[MelissaWV]

See, to me, these are usually distraction stories. The family is generally going to say that their relative was harmless. They also don't necessarily know what she was doing with her meds; she might have told them one thing and done another.

Ultimately, it should not matter. This is (to flip it around) like someone shooting someone else without the ability to claim self-defense and looking for a reason to paint them as evil, ultimately justifying the shooting. It should not matter if she had been doing heroin, cocaine, and Justin Beiber the day before. She wasn't shooting at them, she had a baby in the car, the cops missed multiple opportunities to stop her, and they endangered everyone in a highly-populated area by shooting at random, running red lights, etc..

[limequat]

Jeez comments are terrible there.

[thoughtomator]

This woman is dead only because the police policy is a military force protection posture and not a civilian protection posture. It is their duty to absorb physical risks so that the public is protected from them - not to magnify and reflect those risks, and dump them back on the public. Those are the central facts in this case. Either her killers ought to be put on trial, or we ought to admit that the United States is under military occupation.