It is not markedly different if someone is killed in an incident which involves driving above the posted speed limit. Ask someone who has had a family member killed whether they think there’s a difference with how much the speed of the vehicle was over the speed limit in terms of the outcome.
I don’t know why people seem to have lost sight of the fact that a person was killed in this case, and that it is not just about speeding.
A person was killed, nobody is denying or forgetting that.
What we’re saying is that this woman didn’t murder anyone, she didn’t kill him with intent, malice, or premeditation. It was an accident. Accident by definition means it was neither intentional nor expected.
Don’t you think the fact that the woman has to live with what happened is punishment enough for her? To know that someone died at her hands, whether intentionally or not, isn’t that enough?
Laura Bush was in a car accident at age 17 that killed her boyfriend - should she have rotted in jail too?
The death is not related to the speed. He would be just as dead had she been driving 55 MPH. He is dead because he stepped in front of her truck, not because she was speeding.
Or are you trying to claim that she should be charged because the officer died during the commission of an unrelated crime (speeding)?
Look, I’m not losing sight of the fact that a police officer was killed. And, I know enough about math to know that a 16 mph difference in speed might have given the motorist enough time to react and not hit the officer. For that matter, a 16 mph difference in speed would have kept the officer at the side of the road, not stepping onto a highway. (The officer would not have stepped into traffic to stop a car going 55 mph. Probably not even one going 65 mph.) The very fact that officers step out *only* to stop speeding cars is highly indicative of why the police stopped this form of speed enforcement. Again, it’s very sad that the officer died, and that the motorist has to live with the guilt of having killed someone.