WASHINGTON, D.C. — An erratic female driver was enough to send the capitol city into lockdown Thursday, resulting in a frenzied deployment of armed security agents and mass panic around the city. Helicopters whirred overhead as men with rifles flooded the area. The chaos was initiated after a car collided with a security post near the entrance of the White House. The disgruntled driver fled the scene, and was pursued by police and ultimately shot to death when her car got stuck. The incident began at 2:18 p.m. at an entrance to the White House. A black Infinity belonging to Miriam Carey, 34, of Stamford, Connecticut, struck a security barrier, and then an agent who was trying to block her vehicle. “Whoa! Whoa!,” Secret Service officers were shouting at the car, according to a witness, Shawn Joseph, 29. “It looked liked [the driver was] scared or lost. I thought they might have been a tourist.” The scared driver fled the scene, as police fired upon her vehicle. Police ultimately were "authorized" to kill her when her vehicle got stuck in a grassy median. She did not exit the vehicle and did not present a weapon. Later, police donned HAZMAT (hazardous materials) suits, wearing self-contained breathing apparatuses, before entered Carey’s apartment, as if they were preparing to go into an Al Qaeda terrorist den. “If she wasn’t using any physical force, I don’t know why they opened fire on her,” said Joseph Pollini, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. Pollini, who is also a retired New York police commander, explained, “Just because she didn’t get out of the car if they told her to get out of the car is not sufficient to use deadly force.” But the standards of shooting at people on American streets may be changing in the post-9/11 world. After all, the erratic dental hygienist may have been a suicide bomber, explained the Senate Sergeant at Arms. READ MORE :: policestateusa/2013/d-c-police-kill-erratic-female-driver-with-baby-in-the-car/ The Injustice System
Posted on: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 11:42:33 +0000
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