Kentucky field party shooting: Teen Samantha Ramsey shot dead trying to avoid sobriety test

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53. Yes it explains that she was running because she knew her license was suspended

and if she was stopped she was going to jail. Again, doesn't prove she was drunk. There is a thing called procedure, and going off what a person did in the past, is the very reason why officers are cautioned against doing so. You cannot just assume that because a person was drunk three months ago or six months ago or whatever, is also drunk on this night. The law doesn't work that way. And even if the officer believed she was drunk, why the hell would you chase after a vehicle on foot and get so close to the vehicle that you put yourself in danger of being run over. The officer is lucky he wasn't killed. Still doesn't excuse the fact he got in front of the car, or at the very least so close to the car that he had no other choice but to jump on the hood, or go onto the hood as a result of the car now coming toward you. What about the danger to the other people in that car, does their safety matter.

BTW, i did a little follow on this case, and found out that the car was traveling so slow, that after the cop opened fire, the other two men in the vehicle had enough time to get out of the car and the cop had enough time to get off the hood, all of this before the car rolled down a hill and into a ditch. I guess we will never know what really happened, but I did find those little details very interesting.