{"id":26110,"date":"2014-06-02T09:53:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T14:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26110"},"modified":"2014-07-13T10:31:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T15:31:59","slug":"still-no-answers-in-the-miriam-carey-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/06\/02\/still-no-answers-in-the-miriam-carey-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Still no answers in the Miriam Carey case"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott Greenfield<\/a> at the Simple Justice<\/em> blog wonders why there are still no answers to the questions about what happened at the south gate to the White House that day in 2013. The lawyer for Miriam Carey’s family is exasperated with the delay:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just bizarre. What\u2019s so complex about this incident? It\u2019s a police shooting. You know who the parties are. You know who discharged their weapons. I mean, c\u2019mon, it\u2019s not complex. We should have known within in a week or two. I don\u2019t understand what\u2019s taking so long,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

DC Metro police say the incident is still under investigation, and won’t answer any questions about it. Why is the story being withheld from the public?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s an excellent question, as the answer appears to be that Carey, with her daughter in the back seat, made a wrong turn into the south gate of the White House, panicked, u-turned and drove away. And so the police started firing.<\/p>\n

When Mike Paar sent me a link to this story, it was because this otherwise \u201cinsignificant\u201d story was curious, as it was now eight months old and there were no answers. But for the World Net Daily<\/em><\/a> article, which billed the killing as \u201cfascinating,\u201d it would have easily fallen into obscurity, a one-day wonder story.<\/p>\n

When it was included in a post here, it didn\u2019t warrant any particular scrutiny. The ramming of a barricade was still the explanation du jour<\/em>, and its interest was found in the need to shoot the fleeing car. Because they need to shoot at fleeing cars, which the Supreme Court says is fine.<\/p>\n

Once the story is stripped of its ramming the barricade myth, however, there is no justification under Tennessee v. Garner<\/em> as there was no fleeing felon. There was only an embarrassed dental hygienist. With her one-year-old in the back seat.<\/p>\n

Now knowing that there was no barricade ramming, no drugs, no mental illness, the story of Miriam Carey\u2019s death becomes even less interesting, and yet more a story of importance. If, as believed, this was an overreaction by police to a woman who made a wrong turn, who then shot her to death and is now burying their mistake by invoking excuse number 4, and no one cares, we\u2019ve got another problem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scott Greenfield at the Simple Justice blog wonders why there are still no answers to the questions about what happened at the south gate to the White House that day in 2013. The lawyer for Miriam Carey’s family is exasperated with the delay: \u201cIt\u2019s just bizarre. What\u2019s so complex about this incident? It\u2019s a police […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[84,9],"tags":[343,98,985],"class_list":["post-26110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-law","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-police","tag-washingtondc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6N8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26797,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26110\/revisions\/26797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}