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In reply to the discussion: Kentucky field party shooting: Teen Samantha Ramsey shot dead trying to avoid sobriety test [View all]TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)Obviously all that took place off camera.
As for the passengers, I can see why they wouldn't have seen her hit him since that took place outside the car where they had no vantage point and they were also drunk. They wouldn't have been able to tell if he fell onto the hood or leapt onto it, and as I said, either is justifiable. Being that they were her friends I can also see why they would have motive to not be so forthcoming. One thing I'd like to know from them is if they tried to get her to stop when she decided to flee the police or did they also want her to flee from them? Or did she even try to flee because they encouraged her to? They already obviously didn't care that she was driving drunk and so much so they put their own lives as risk be getting in the car with her at the wheel as well as drinking under age themselves and lying to their parents about what they were doing that night. Pardon me for not being so trustful about selfish kids that break the law and don't care about who might be in their drunken path and not even for their own selves by getting into a car with someone that was driving drunk and had been caught for it before.
The officer had leg injuries which he was hospitalized for. That should tell anyone that he was indeed struck by the car. I've noticed how judiciously people here have been ignoring his injuries.
I'll trust the official police story FAR more than anyone on DU that has an unreasonable hatred of all cops and falls all over themselves at every opportunity to try to make any story appear as entirely the fault of the officer regardless of the facts.
Unlike the biased cop hating brigade here I take every case on its merits. You might have noticed that I'm pissed off at that cop that abused his police dog on camera, but not so stupid to believe that just because he did that every other K9 officer must be doing the same. I don't have any ridiculous bias about cops or people with guns or whatever and take every case on its merits yet that just pisses off biased people no end so much so that they even try to argue with their bias as you're doing here because any common sense in the way of their bias is just intolerable.
I have zero sympathy for anyone that uses their car as a weapon with no regard for anyone in their way when they're so selfishly trying to run from the police because they were drinking under age and driving especially when they'd already had their license suspended before for drunk driving.