2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWTF!!! Was this incident an Assassination attempt
On the President.Or some kind of warning
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)To the hospital and now needs Obama care if she's uninsured.She sounds like an Obama hater
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I don't know what she sounds like.
It's possible for people's brains to go "snap" into some form of seizure and do all kinds of stuff. It happens.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,976 posts)Let's wait for more information before assuming anything about this person.
Mass
(27,315 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)and delusional. you have zero compassion.
dkf
(37,305 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,976 posts)there's no indication she was armed; capitol police shot her because she was driving erratically, ran stop lights and wouldn't stop when being chased by cops.
Seems more probable this was a person with psychological problems. We shall see.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)incident, maybe a desperate person affected by the assaults on government social safety net programs starting with the sequester and the last straw being the shutdown yesterday.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,976 posts)(looked like an Infiniti). That doesn't necessarily mean she wasn't having financial problems, but at this point there's no use in speculating about motives.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)And it's looking like someone was having a bad hair day.
dgibby
(9,474 posts)Much more info needed. The driver apparently tried to ram the WH gate with her car (baby on board). Was it intentional? Was she suffering some type of medical or metal problem? Hard to tell at this point. MSNBC shows high speed car chase, so I suspect she was trying to flee, but I have no idea why. Guilt, paranoia, fear?
A friend of mine (in her 80's) died in an auto accident last week; however, eye witnesses said her head was slumped forward before she was hit. Also, there was very little blood at the scene, although she had injuries. Those 2 things would lead me to believe she may have been dead before she was hit (her car was across both lanes of traffic), but it would be hard to tell without autopsy reports.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)The chase began when the woman driving a black sedan got involved in some kind of verbal altercation with officers at a security checkpoint a block from the White House, the intelligence source said.
As police cars arrived at the scene, the vehicle sped away and led police on a wild chase that included running red lights, according to the source.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)mgcgulfcoast
(1,127 posts)i cant see how killing her was justified.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)mgcgulfcoast
(1,127 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)They shot-up and blew up a cabin. And the man hiding in the boat, they went nuts with helicoptors & flash bangs. All they needed was a ok tracking dog to follow the 100 yeard blood trail.
. To many wanting to shoot and use their shiny new toys from billions in free drug seizure cash they get to keep.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)she hit one secret service person over after trying to breach White House security.
They had to assume she was trying an assassination.
Ranchemp.
(1,991 posts)For following procedure? How were they to know that she wasn't intent on mass carnage? How were they supposed to know that she didn't have a bomb in the car?
She was in possession of a 2000+ weapon and had already shown craven disregard for human life when she hit the Secret Service agent.
It's easy to second guess the police when you're not actually there at the moment of the crises.
mgcgulfcoast
(1,127 posts)i dont like shoot first and ask questions later.
Ranchemp.
(1,991 posts)You think they had her whole history in front of them during the incident?
They didn't even know her name and she was posing a grave threat to police, tourists and citizens alike.
The police should be arrested? For what?
LiberalArkie
(15,735 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)onenote
(42,829 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)I would expect to get shot. End of story.
Agree. If I were to run any barricade in DC - the White House, the Capitol, the Supreme Court I'd expect repercussions . But with the WH - certainly to be shot.