When her family sues, the pig is going to make a qualified immunity defense. It's fucking disgusting.
I don't think qualified immunity affects civil suits like wrongful death. AFAIK it only covers criminal charges like murder.
Other way around. Qualified immunity prevents cops from being sued. It does not shield them from criminal charges.
(The corrupt prosecutorial and judicial systems do that instead.)
It covers civil liability if you meet the requirements listed in Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800 (1982).
Homer Simpson: "Only covers criminal charges... so far"
“The department holds the individual responsible for sending the threatening email fully accountable for setting this tragic chain of events into motion.
"Guys it's literally not even the drivers fault"
Man, fuck the police.
Some A-Train shenanigans afoot
Leave the MTG dumbshit alone, the opposition should never harm a complete idiot. The classic example, the Allies never tried to assassinate "The Little Fucking Austrian Corporal," because they knew who fucking everything up.
You left out the best part:
According to Rome police, the department received an email listing Greene’s home address and saying a pipe bomb had been placed in her mailbox shortly after 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 6. The email initially went to a junk folder and was not seen until Monday at about 9:30 a.m.
And rather than the journalists saying “three days old” and giving exact dates, it’s just “Monday”
It was opened at 9:30 on December 9th. It sat in the junk folder all weekend, the police found it, and a police officer driving a personal truck killed someone
“Look what you made me do!”
Seems like it would've been better to call Marjorie to tell her not to open her mailbox instead of rushing to the house at speed.
Given that it's MTG, the first thing she would probably do after being told not to open her mailbox would be to open her mailbox. Not that I'm saying it's a bad plan.
Yeah, just tell her it's the woke liberals tell her what she can and can't do.
The article says it was someone rushing to the bomb squad HQ, not to MTG's house. Also it says they contacted her first and she wasn't home.
So they were rushing to an empty house to rescue who exactly?
They believed there was a bomb in the mailbox. If she lives in a neighborhood that's still potentially near other people. My mailbox is on a sidewalk that folks use from time to time.
They weren't rushing to the house at speed. The accident occurred when an officer was driving his personal vehicle to the department so that he could get ready to respond to the situation.
The lady who died pulled out from a parking lot in front of him, and got t-boned on the driver side.
Well, that seems like a non-department-related accident. My employer isn't responsible if I get in an accident on my way to work, not sure why that would be different here.
I'm not so sure. If I'm commuting to work that's one thing, but if I'm responding to a page from my employer that's different. This officer, though heading to work, was in the process of responding to the threat. They weren't just commuting as part of their morning routine.
you're not a pig though, no special rules for you
Yeah, the cop was definitely speeding though.
so the spam filters worked.
On the way to the headquarters in their personal vehicle, a Rome Police sergeant and bomb squad member collided with another vehicle driven by 66-year-old Tammie Pickelsimer.
A Georgia State Patrol spokesperson said the traffic incident is still under investigation, but according to the initial findings, Pickelsimer’s 2002 Mazda Protege pulled out of a Rome parking lot into the path of the officer’s 2015 GMC Sierra truck. The officer applied the brakes but the truck struck the Mazda near the driver’s side front door. Pickelsimer was taken to a hospital where she died from her injuries. The officer suffered minor injuries and has been released from the hospital
2)…wanna bet the cop was driving at a high rate of speed, in a vehicle without lights and sirens?
Also a good reason why driving a giant vehicle like a GMC Sierra that smashes anything it touches shouldn't be free. A higher vehicle tax on something like that would be appropriate, instead they get higher tax write-offs and lower emissions and safety standards.
I'd argue it isnt clickbait and is a fairly accurate title. Motorist killed as police respond. The motorist was hit while the police were responding. The title never claimed the motorist had anything to do with the bomb threat, that was the context for the police response. Typically when the headline is refering to someone involved with the crime, they use the term suspect. The fact they used motorist actually gave me a hint it was an unassociated party that was hit.
The only way it's misleading is in the usual refusal to acknowledge that the police killed this innocent person. It's always the same passive voice, as if people keep magically dropping dead when the police happen to be around.
Personal vehicle: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/12/10/marjorie-taylor-greene-bomb-threat-car-crash/76884681007/
I'm sure it'll come out later that he was speeding.
Sometimes, cops that are frequently on call are allowed to install lights or sirens on personal cars so they can get into their station quickly.
Bombsquad calls are less frequent but generally urgent.
In any case, I would suggest he was driving like he had lights and sirens, despite not having them. Which makes it incredibly unsafe to do, and places blame squarely on the cop. (Though the article made sure to mention she pulled into his way.)
Though the article made sure to mention she pulled into his way
I mean, like it or not, that's the way the law reads and is applied. We run into it with motorcycles all the time. Barring extreme cases, the car that pulls in front of the speeding vehicle is 'at fault.'
2)…wanna bet the cop was driving at a high rate of speed, in a vehicle without lights and sirens?
I wouldn't bet against it but I've had the same thing happen. Buddy was driving and it was a bright sunny summer afternoon. We were doing all of 30MPH and an old lady pulled out onto the road maybe 20' in front of us. The Samurai we were in was totaled and so was her Buick. She didn't die but she did spend a couple of days in hospital. I bounced my head off the windshield so hard I was knocked out and I bent the passenger door out a good 4" with my right arm / elbow. My buddy was also knocked out from banging his head off the windshield even with his seatbelt on. That can happen when your vehicle is suddenly gets 18" shorter.
I'm not defending the cop but sometimes drivers just do dumb shit, especially older ones.
wanna bet the cop was driving at a high rate of speed, in a vehicle without lights and sirens?
Only if you're giving like +1500, then I might bet like $10
Foreign agents getting the police to kill us, one by one.
Of course the police take zero responsibility. Their accounting of the events includes apply the brakes a piece of information that sounds sus.
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