Might need to send your snark-o-meter to the shop for a tune up.
Hernandez? I wonder what the copsâ surnames are?
Hoppy, do we even know that the girl that died was the driver?
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So, one teen makes a mistake and everybody else in the car potentially forfeits their life because of it? Really?
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Actually i need to tune up my reading comprehension. Both this article and the original state she was the driver.
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The officer had the right to shoot the girl but there could have been another way to stop the suspect instead of shooting them. Shooting the girl put the people in the car in danger.
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Standing in front or directly behind a stopped auto would seem to be a really stupid thing, unless one is trying to set up a felony or death.
No. Likely she tried to escape but for a stupid cop who threw himself in front of her escape route.
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The cop had no ârightâ to shoot.
What? How to run faster, even in my teen years it would have been difficult for me to dodge a car used as a weapon.
How do you suggest engaging a stolen car that has tried to run down a cop??
Pretty sure, I didnât say they needed to learn how run faster, or dodge cars better .Iâm saying that whatever they are doing now clearly isnât working. Since this is the third incident in so many months, however they are approaching the situation doesnât work so they need to stop doing it. Whether thatâs treat suspects in cars differently or develop new tactics, I donât know. Thatâs less for me to figure out and more for Denver PD.
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Police alleged the girl, identified as Jessica Hernandez, was driving a stolen car and had hit one of the officers who opened fire, according to the Denver Post
Thereâs no way to tell from that statement that she was trying to run him down. She couldâve swerved to try to get around him, and clipped him. She couldâve backed up and tried to speed off and hit him, any number of things. We donât know because thereâs no video. What we do know is that this exact situation has already happened in Denver, in short order, in the recent past. Seems to me thatâs a great reason to look at your procedures. It would also seem to me that priority of DPD would be to minimize the risk to their officers and the public.
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If thatâs the case and it was a bullshit âsheâs coming right for meâ I agree with you 100% that it would be inappropriate force being justified using a fairly vapid excuse, but, a legit swipe and she signed it.
Totally agree, Annie. There are a few too many posters here suggesting the girl tried to ârun the cop down,â where nothing in the various articles Iâve read suggests that. Firstly, it is only the copsâ account weâve heard so far, and even then it sounds like she was young, stupid, flustered and either swerved into or backed into some copâs leg, a bumping which apparently didnât even break a bone, and yet nonetheless prompted her execution. We need to hear from the other girls in the car, and from eyewitnesses, about the nature of the car/cop collision that started the shooting.
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The poor cops always cry that they are defenseless victims.
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Clipped him! What? Try that in traffic court.
Even in traffic court, Iâm sure the penalty for âclippingâ someone isnât death. And it still doesnât negate my point that how they are engaging people in stolen cars isnât working, and they need to reassess. The cop didnât appear to be harmed this time, doesnât mean it couldnât be a different outcome in the future. And of course no future for Jessica Hernandez whoâs dead, for stealing a car.
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Are you especially stupid today?
A: How about NOT shooting at a car load of people?
@Diogenesâ67 How to stop a car that accidently hit a cop? A cop was standing next to the car the girls were trying to get away⌠Denver isnt âshoot firstâ Texas. Or is it? They shouldnt have opened fire⌠there were a hundred nonviolent ways to resolve this. Instead they all pulled out their guns and opened fire when⌠if the car was heading straight towards them that would be one thing but I suspect it was heading in the opposite direction.