Miriam Carey was shot at 26 times by law enforcement near the Capitol in 2013. Her sister contrasts her fate to the treatment of the Jan. 6 rioters.

“At the foot of the West Lawn of the Capitol, U.S. Capitol Police officers joined the Secret Service with guns drawn, cornering the car on a sidewalk. Carey backed into a squad car, drove briefly on the sidewalk and continued toward Constitution Avenue NW. Officers fired eight shots. Her car was shortly surrounded by officers on Constitution Avenue NE, a block from the Capitol. As Carey tried to back away, a Capitol Police officer and a Secret Service officer each fired nine bullets at the car. Carey was hit once in the arm, three times in the back and once in the head. She died a short while later. Her baby was not physically harmed.”

Yep. She was on her way to see him, actually. As SpyGate hadn’t yet exploded, she was upset because she believed he was spying on her.
She wanted to tell him to leave her alone. She told friends before that fateful day. It’s quite a story and there was no journalistic investigation. Media, over 3 news cycles, gently suggested the unarmed, no drugs-no alcohol, working mom with the 13 month old baby in the back seat of her car was off her rocker. She was nuts. They pushed mental health and gushed how fortunate nothing happened to Obama.
They suggested she might have been a suicide bomber or such. (No explosives)

She was fired on 26 times as she fled. She was killed a block away from the White House.

Her family just wants to know why Secret Service and Capitol Police put 5 or 6 rounds into her back and skull….and who fired the shot to her head.
She wasn’t firing back.

No one called to disarm the Capitol Police.

Her name was Miriam Carey. R.I.P. 🥀

Washington Post article of 11/26/2014

How Miriam Carey’s U-turn at a White House checkpoint led to her death https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2014/11/26/how-miriam-careys-u-turn-at-a-white-house-checkpoint-led-to-her-death/

In the months after the birth of her baby, Erica, Miriam Carey "suffered post-partum depression with psychosis, including a 'momentary breakdown' that required hospital care."

In addition to that, and on at least one occasion after that birth, Miriam had contacted her hometown (Stamford , Connecticut) police, in order to report people snooping about her home and intruding on her privacy. [EXCERPT from the article:]

One day in late November 2012, Carey called the Stamford police to report male neighbors loitering outside her window. They had been stalking her for months, she told the 911 operator. “They’re trying to videotape me through my window,” she says on a recording of the call.

On another occasion, and at a point of greater anxiety, Miriam had become a bit imaginative about who was the cause of her worries and why . . . she said [EXCERPT from the article:]

[When the police asked], “she replied it was because Stamford and the state of Connecticut [are] on a security lock down,” the report continued. “She stated that President Obama put Stamford in lockdown after speaking to her because she is the Prophet of Stamford. She further stated that President Obama had put her residence under electronic surveillance and that it was being fed live to all the national news outlets.”

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For a perspective that the security in DC might have had, scroll down further in the article, to:

"former Capitol Police chief Terrance Gainer offered thoughts"

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My guestimate, is that Miriam was over-extending herself, while trying to perform her professional dental duties, in addition to trying to please some people (one of them being her boyfriend aka father of new daughter, Erica).

Miriam possibly, and originally, sought the Connecticut location (her condo) as a place of peace, where she could live and get some distance - out from under the pressures and her anxiety re life.

Yet, the local snoopers plus boyfriend (becoming also father for the child), was a return to "too much," and she lost the relief of her sanctuary.

I am guessing that she drilled down into a hole of depression about all that, and sought relief, by heading to what, in a bit of another psych-break, seemed to her, to be a probable source of her troubles: whatever she imagined to be emanating from Washington, DC.

Never having been to DC, before, and certainly unaware of the nature of security there, she actually reacted as more than a few people have: startled, followed by sudden movements, combined with some embarrassment (upon which some people instantly "back up"). But, in today's environment, who would know that, outside of the car, and outside of lengthy conversation and time with her?

I will side with: She was a good person, but she had become stuck in a position, in her mind, where she was more and more frustrated, and then desparate for relief. IMHO.

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