Posted on 06/18/2014 8:50:36 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass
The footage shows Andrande lying in the street when the police car slowly approaches and stops. The car then moves a few feet and halts before rolling forward and stopping what appears to be about a car length from Andrande. The car then pulls forward, running over the prone man.
Cool pointed out that because the footage was taken by an infrared camera, the incident appears differently than it would have that night. Andrade was wearing a navy blue shirt and navy blue pants, colors that appear white on the infrared footage, she said.
So now cars are running people over, sort of like guns are killing people?
6th Ave and N. Fife Street in Tacoma. The street lighting there is pretty decent so the cop should have seen him. The cop was not paying attention to the road in front of him.
....These a video/u-tube @ freepatriot.org, showing the LEO's Car advancing slowly w/ headlights clearly showing the crime.
This is assault with deadly @ the least, OR just plain attempted Murder.
Any bets on whether he gets a ticket for “loitering”?
I wonder what procedural processes would differ if it had been me that ran over the guy.
There was a scene in the original release of the movie “varsity blues” where the characters, in a night of drinking, thought it would be a rush to lay on the centerline of the highway and feel the cars go by them.
Except some viewers of that version thought it looked like fun so they did it...and learned the hard way that cars cross the centerline all the time.
They cut it out of the movie.
6th Ave and N. Fife Street in Tacoma. The street lighting there is pretty decent so the cop should have seen him. The cop was not paying attention to the road in front of him.
I ran down a pedestrian once. Cops said the guy should have used a crosswalk. No blame whatsoever was placed on me. He was in pretty bad shape but I feel no guilt whatsoever. It’s the equivalent of being the engineer of a freight train that hits a car at a crossing.
If joe citizen did this some sort of negligence would attach.
“Just an accident”.
Maybe the officer was looking at his computer when he ran the fellow over.
That’s called distracted driving
Outlaw computers in cars.
The officer was slowly moving forward and checking license plates, per the article.
He wasn’t paying attention to conditions.
Negligence. ..
Tacoma: Where cops back-shoot crazy people who are walking away from them and are not held to account.
The officer was slowly moving forward and checking license plates, per the article.
He wasn’t paying attention to conditions.
Negligence. ..
I was backing out of a parking space in a shopping mall one time. A pickup truck went by and I then checked my mirrors and slowly backed up - right into the low trailer he was pulling.
That’s about 7 blocks from my house.
There was a gang shooting a couple of months ago there when a wake / party was being held for the last gangland shooting. Happily, I left the bar about two hours before that shooting. :-)
Tacoma is a horribly run city. Priorities of the City Council are completely messed up. They spend $300K to hire consultants for “Visions”, but the city’s infrastructure is completely crumbling.
Why was the cop in a car instead of walking, where he would be of good use managing drunks on the street? What reasonable investigative technique has you running all the license plates near a bar scene?
I’ve had only bad experiences with cops in my life, either as victim or normal guy trying to follow the law. I automatically distrust them.
When the last cop back-shot a crazy guy who was walking away from her, and then was whitewashed by the cops and the media, I lost all respect for Tacoma’s cops. They’re just the most well armed gang operating under color of authority.
You also could have added where the deputy chief is allowed to violently abuse his wife for an number of years before actually killing her after they seperated!
Whether it’s Hilltop or the Tacoma cops there no place better be than not near them.
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