I saw some video of the person trying to ram the gate at the White house.
It didn’t look to me like she tried to ram anything.
It looked a lot more like she’d made a wrong turn and was trying to figure out what to do next when the DC police and Secret Service responded with shouting and waving a whole lot of guns at her.
That video is not available on the web yet… And it may never be because it makes the DC police and Secret Service look really bad.
I think she decided to just get the hell away from all these crazy people and their scary guns, who then started shooting.
This led to a police chase where our “evildoer” hit a cop car practically destroying it, then sped on to her final destination.
Really? Crown Victoria vs. Lexus and the Lexus is drivable? While the Crown Vic is totaled. Really?
I think it’s far more likely that the cop driving the Crown Vic hit something else or was hit because you can see the front of the Lexus in some of the photos.
This one for example.
The front of the Lexus doesn’t look nearly as screwed up as I’d expect after seeing the Cops car.
The initial news reports were that the Woman had started shooting at the cops.
As it turned out she was completely unarmed and had a 1 year old child in the back seat.
I can easily imagine a Mother getting freaked out because she was lost or made a wrong turn then was suddenly confronted with 20 or 30 men with guns all shouting at her and she decided…
THE HELL WITH THIS!
I’m getting my child and myself away from these crazy people who aren’t listening to what I’m saying.
I’ll grant you it probably wasn’t the smartest move.
Honestly if I was already stressed because I was lost and then turned into an area to consider my options, then looked up and saw a bunch of guys pointing guns at me and screaming at me… I’d be very much inclined to run.
OUT OF FEAR FOR MY LIFE!
These cops in the first video are obviously cranked beyond any reasonable notches. The gate in question is quite some distance from the White House.
That these folks were cranked tighter than a Meth addict coming down hard is something we as a people and a country should really take a good long look at.
A couple of weeks ago NYPD shot innocent bystanders because some nut job was running around in traffic.
The police missed the nut job they were shooting at.
Last year I believe NYPD shot 13 or 14 people in a similar incident where they only grazed the actual criminal but did a lot of harm to innocent bystanders.
Now it looks as if the DC police are just as amped up, stupid and irresponsible as NYPD.
DC police killed this woman in front of her child.
This lady was unarmed, obviously afraid, and we will never know what her intention was.
The one thing that we can be sure of and that we need to dial way down is living in fear.
The media, bloggers, Twitter, and god only knows what other media sources seem to thrive on filling us up with fear, of living.
It’s unnecessary and it leads to police over-reaction to common every day events.
What ever happened to an officer approaching the vehicle and saying something civil like “Ma’am you can’t park here you must move along.“
How about the civility of “Are you lost Ma’am and can I help you?“
Instead because DC is freaking out, the response was probably something like;
GET OUT OF THE CAR MAGGOT, FUCKING BITCH, DOWN ON YOUR KNEES, NOW, NOW, NOW, I DON’T GIVE A SHIT WHAT YOUR EXCUSE IS, GET OUT OF THE CAR ON THE GROUND, NOW BITCH!
Then there’s the very real possibility that if you don’t move fast enough or you move too fast you’re going to at minimum get beat to hell and at maximum you’re going to be shot.
Given that choice I’d probably opt to stay in the car and make a run for it. At least I’d have a cocoon of steel around me.
We need to take the fear mongering down several notches.
Not everyone is planning to do congress or the president harm. If congress and / or the president are that fearful, maybe some introspection on how they are doing their job is in order.
Sometimes people make wrong turns. Sometimes people veer onto side streets trying to avoid an accident, then have to figure out how to get back on course. It happens every day in every city in the US.
They killed an unarmed woman…
Will she be mourned and venerated like Trayvon Martin?
Surely her life was important and she was worthy of a police officer listening to her.
“It’s painful to live in fear“
The reports this morning are even more bizarre. This lady suffering from post partum depression loads up her child, drives from Connecticut to Washington DC and tried to ram a barricade at the White House? Was the child the Presidents?
None of it makes any sense and honestly given the spin that the DC police and the media are putting on this event. I am for the first time in my life fearful of the police and my government.
The behavior we saw yesterday and the police now trying to imply, if not outright say this woman was a threat to the security of the White House is ludicrous.
The internal investigation of this incident will be covered up. The police will be found completely blameless. The Secret Service will continue to claim they acted properly.
Meanwhile the woman’s name will be slandered and her child will be without a parent.
The handling of this incident makes me want to vomit.
The truth of the matter will never come out. If we were able to keep track of the officers quitting the DC police department over the next year I wouldn’t be surprised to see a huge turnover.
I don’t think the officers leaving would be bad cops, rather I suspect they’d be the cops whose morals and ethics wouldn’t let them continue to work for a department that clearly has no moral boundaries.