@falcor –
thanks for pruning the blight from the tree.
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May these shitstains reap what they have sown.
"…if we let her go and she goes around the corner and has an aneurism and dies, that’s on us.”
But if she dies in our custody from injuries we inflicted, that’s a tragic accident that we couldn’t have foreseen.
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I’d be OK spending my fifty likes* on this one.
*Yeah, yeah, people, I know, fifty’s no longer the limit. Just go with the joke, dammit.
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I don’t think that I can bear to watch the film…But the GIF alone is evidence of some real stupidity. I don’t care who you’ve put in the car, you NEVER spray tear gas into the cruiser. It doesn’t matter how carefully you wash the inside, you’ll be stuck with tear gas smell for a long time.
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Listening to the driver of the car, he stated that the girl on the bike crashed into the side of his car. Now if thisis true, he couldn’t have caused the accident. However I really didn’t see any damage other than the collapsible mirror was folded in.
We still see that the cops have zero ability to deal with a scary 15 year old girl in any way other than physically restraining her. I mean if they really needed to notify her parents, they could follow her home and speak to them there.
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Please FSM, bring an ambitious lawyer into this scene and sue the fuck out of these brutal, inhumane mobsters (autocorrect error, but I’ll take it).
Preferably a lawyer with a big personality and a flair for publicity. There should be much public shaming here
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Right. Any responsible first responder is going to want to make sure a kid (or really anyone) who got their bell rung in a bike crash doesn’t go wander off into an alley, collapse and die. Given that, her “I’m going home” isn’t exactly a demand they can just live with. I hit my head once and was in zero condition to make any decision at all – but the speed with which these guys go from “hey there, we need you to calm down so we can figure out if you are really hurt” to “respect my authoritaaaaaaaah” is really bothersome (to say nothing all of the follow-on brutality, which is seemingly an inevitable sequela of the demand of obedience).
(I said this earlier, but my comment got swallowed when they removed Mr CopsLivesMatter)
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I’m still trying to figure out WTF the fire department is doing there?
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They were called in cause the scene was lit
Accident with reported injuries, the paramedics are going to roll.
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What sucks is the officers do have a duty to protect this girl even from herself or her own irresponsible actions. All of their mistakes stem from the very first one…they did not deescalate. From the very first moment, their words and actions should have been calming and non aggressive. They should have as others stated asked if she could talk to a firefighter or someone else if she didn’t want to talk to them. If she refused to wait or talk to anyone and merely wanted to leave perhaps have a patrol car follow her home and report to her parents or guardians what happened. They are ignoring that maybe her fear is not in the police…but maybe from home! Perhaps she is an abused child whose parents would have flipped out to find out this happened? As others also stated they are ignoring that they are dealing with a child. Who has just had a traumatic experience and could be injured or impaired.
I have empathy for officers put into these situations. The one cop who stated “If we let her go and she dies its on us” is a fair perspective. Its almost lose/lose for them. They have to protect her and themselves. But their training needs to cover how to do it properly and with care to all parties.
The entire thing is tragic.
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Wasn’t personal at all.
You need a full blown firetruck AND crew in order to deliver paramedic services in the US? Hmmm… that’s where the overkill starts.
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Two points:
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As you say, it’s HIS version of the story;
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A car goes much faster than a bike, which means the bike was likely already in the intersection before the car got to it, it’s just that the car didn’t slow down or stop. It might have even sped up (I’ve seen that happen enough). My guess is that the driver either didn’t see her, or assumed that because she was black he could scare her and/or cut her off for fun.
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That was one of my first thoughts: they might be abusive, or exhausted from overwork and poverty, or she was grounded at the time…she was probably reacting because she knew she’d get in trouble at home. That’s how teenagers think.
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The firefighters are the paramedics, and the paramedics are the firefighters. I agree the whole station doesn’t need to turn out every time.
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When there is an accident-injury involving a motor vehicle, it’s very common to dispatch that kind of equipment.
It’s also where the preparedness for unforeseen contingencies starts!
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Oh come now, that is really reaching and seems rather gratuidous poking to get a response. Should one counter with, “She collided with him intentionally to bolster the BLM movement.”? Of course not, because both suggestions are ridiculous.
We don’t know who was at fault. Bike on car accidents happen a lot because of blind bias - a person doesn’t expect to see a bike there and their brain just sort of ignores it. But even while it is fair to speculate the driver was at fault, speculation it was intentional with no evidence is something else.
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