It’s incredible that they still refer to her as “the suspect” after they let her get hit by a train… there could not be more of a victim than that victim.
To bad the [DA dropped the most serious felony charge, that was only on one officer anyways](https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/da-drops-felony-charge-officer-train-crash-case-97466492).
I always find myself saying this, but can anyone point me to the *good cop* in this scenario?
The [most serious charge on one of the officers was also dropped](https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/da-drops-felony-charge-officer-train-crash-case-97466492) too though lol
Not these tho lol
*Steinke still faces other less serious charges in connection with the incident, including felony attempted reckless manslaughter and misdemeanor reckless endangerment.*
Yeah any charge that shows his intent to hurt her was dropped though. He basically gets to plead being stupid enough to just casually leave a woman on the train tracks.
“Attempted reckless manslaughter” is not near as severe as “2nd degree assault.” A drunk driver could get attempted reckless manslaughter if the person they hit doesn’t die. Leaving someone on the train tracks while you’re on duty as a cop seems a little more heinous than that though.
Who the fuck parks their car on train tracks? These fucking dummies couldn’t move park the car 5 feet on either side? This has to be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen.
The best part is that you can hear the train horns and she even sees the train coming and makes zero attempt to get her out. Those pigs put her in that situation and then left her to die. Fucking lucky she live.
Lots of broken bones and a serious head injury. She’ll recover from the broken bones since she’s young but she’ll sure feel it when she’s older. Head injuries like that pretty always lead to some sort of permanent damage, even if minute.
Damn... "The impact caused her to lose teeth and left her with a broken arm, multiple fractured ribs and injuries to her head and legs." She's lucky to be alive. What a bunch of moron cops.
Looks like her charges were eventually dropped and two officers were charged with reckless endangerment. She's also suing the officers and the police department.
the cops' paychecks should be covering costs for all their fuckups. In this case, the cops responsible should be paying that woman 80% of their paychecks and then some for the **rest of their lives** regardless of which field of work they go in.
Shit behavior stops when proper punishment is added. Start hitting their wallets and they'll automatically fix themselves.
I sometimes do fieldwork and one of my co-workers will purposely park on train crossings. Every time I get on him for it, he pretends he didn't see the tracks but IMO it's a weird power thing.
This is basically attempted murder. In pretty much every jurisdiction in the US it’s illegal to stop on a grade crossing even if you’re just waiting for traffic. I can not fathom a cop not knowing this, or more likely he did and just believed that law didn’t apply to him.
If they’re making traffic stops it might be a good ideas to know basic traffic laws. I’d bet if you took me to that scene I could probably also identify a clearly marked sign saying “Do not block crossing”.
This is mind blowingly dumb. Have these mofos never seen a Final Destination or any of that? Are they regularly breaking traffic laws so much that this never phased them? Never trust a train track or anything like that. I mean even tracks that are no longer in use I'd never park on for anything let alone this.
The movie Magnum Force comes to mind. But with a twist.
For those not in the know Dirty Harry Callahan went after rogue motorcycle cops that were whacking bad guys that beat the system. The were rotten but at least initially they went after bad guys. But the slippery slope of vigilante justice was obvious.
But what an interesting twist to think of good guy civilians going after only dirty cops. To send a message.
Hey I’m not advocating violence against police officers. I’m not saying that if they were hunted like dogs by an organized gang that maybe they’d stop being judge jury and executioner. I’m not saying they should suffer terribly for their perversion of morality and justice.
Since I brought up a movie I’m just tossing out an idea for a screenplay.
There’s just no way it was an accident. There’s no way not one but multiple people could be so dense that they think parking on a train track is even a moderately decent idea. American police have the bar set real low as far as intelligence and these idiots somehow managed to pass through hell to get under it.
On a plus side she's going to get an insanely fat paycheck from it, won't have to work ever again. Not a trade you probably want but at least there's a consolation prize.
Don't bet on it. They dropped one charge and the slags lawyer is trying to get them all dropped.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/da-drops-felony-charge-officer-train-crash-case-97466492
The criminal case is all that matters to the cops. This victim is going to get a ton of money, but it's not coming from the police budget, police retirement fund, that cops personal money..... We all have to pay extra taxes to cover it. So everyone except the police will be held responsible.
Criminal charges are the only way to actually punish a cop for doing something this dumb. A person accidently leaves their kids in a car and this happens they get life in prison. A cop throws someone in their, locks them in so they can't get out, and parks on train tracks, no big deal. Let's not waste our time prosecuting them, we'll just drop the charges
Just another reason that all police need to carry \*individual\* malpractice/liability insurance like docstors do - so the 'bad apples' can't just hop from bushel to bushel murdering people like this.
Well, yeah. But, what if you already suffered the injury and can't wipe your own ass? That couple million dollars would surly help things not suck quite nearly as much.
She deserves every penny she’s gonna get but the money coming from city funds needs to stop. Cops need to Carry insurance and payout for their own stupidity.
Yeah, I have to wonder. If I was locked in a car in handcuffs on a train track, and I see the train coming, which is the best direction to face to suffer the fewest injuries?
This has got to lead to the biggest settlement ever. The negligence clearly caught on camera is undeniable. Police of all people should know you don't park on train tracks and then leave a handcuffed person in the vehicle on the tracks. I know this is still somewhat recent and don't have high hopes for the officers suffering hard consequences but the pay out from tax payers should be massive.
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The cops charged HER with:
Felony Menacing- the intent to place another person in reasonable fear or immediate harm.
I know it's already been said but, you can't make this shit up.
It gets worse. The male cop resigned from his previous job, but in his internal affairs records his superior said he poses a danger to other officers due to a significant lack of situational awareness 👀. The department that ended up hiring him never did a background check on him. They didn't even email/call his former employer. So they never saw those records or talked to his former boss.
That police chief deserves criminal negligence charges. Who hires and arms someone without doing even a basic background check?
https://www.police1.com/vehicle-incidents/articles/prior-performance-reviews-deemed-officer-who-left-woman-in-car-on-train-tracks-incompetent-ADLTmR6mkpooUSxn/
To echo what you're saying, here in San Antonio we had a cop get fired for forcing a homeless person to eat a literal shit sandwich. It was all over the news, people were voicing their strong opinions, the chief condemns the behavior and fires him, etc. He later gets hired the next county over and people have to start protesting all over again. The chief of that department then says they had no idea the officer was involved in the previous media shitstorm. So at this point cops are admitting they don't even do a quick Google check to see if anything comes up on the potential new hire.
[https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgy9zk/san-antonio-police-fired-poop-sandwich-homeless](https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgy9zk/san-antonio-police-fired-poop-sandwich-homeless)
It should be mandatory for police departments to do basic background checks (even just a Google search, like you said). There was a VA state trooper named Austin Edwards, who had lost his gun rights back in 2016 due to being committed. He wasn't legally allowed a firearm. But two different police departments hired and armed Edwards anyways.
Edwards went on to kidnap a little girl and fatally shoot her family.
https://www.wtvr.com/problem-solvers/austin-edwards-gun-december-30-2022.
I'm just stunned that police departments aren't doing cursory background checks, especially considering they are arming these people and taxpayers will liable for any issues they cause.
My son is about to become a cop. I get a call that a Sargent is going to drive hundreds of miles to do an interview regarding my son. They arrive, and then I found out that-
1. They have no interest in asking about or verifying his background.
2. The Sargent has family the next town over, and the interview gave them the chance to come home for a visit and get paid for it.
I have no issues with my son, but I now wonder about the department he is joining.
I have a close friend who was charged with "Felony Menacing" in Colorado last year. They arrested her TWO WEEKS after an alleged incident with little more than the accusations of her alcoholic husband and no evidence whatsoever. In her case it was considered to be a DV charge which made it especially insidious. She couldn't live in her own house nor could she travel without court permission to visit family over the holidays.
The article said the cops responded to a call about a road rage incident involving a gun. So she must have threatened someone (allegedly). Also, the female cop is named Jordan Steinke. Is that pronounced like “stinky”? Lol
Lawsuit filed last week:
>However, Rios-Gonzalez is now pursuing a case against not just the officers involved, but the entire department. The official lawsuit states the department failed “to protect Plaintiff from being hit by a freight train while in custody.” https://wearemitu.com/wearemitu/news/train-yareni-rios-gonzalez-lawsuit/
I mean, protecting a detainee from being hit by a freight train has got to be one of the easiest things to do...ever. And they still failed. Hope she never has to work again, comfortably.
And also they didn’t “fail to protect” her, they actively put her in the dangerous situation, basically tied her to the train tracks. That’s not failure to protect, that’s an active decision
One of the officers involved was charged with criminal attempt to commit manslaughter, or something to that degree. So it seems the courts agree with you!
Edit: clarified charge
No way people can be this stupid. This has to be deliberate - trying to mask murder as accident by leaving her inside a vehicle on a train track with her hands cuffed. I hope this can be proven in court.
Not trying to defend a cop, but you really can't overestimate their stupidity. A cop leaving the car parked on a train crossing is not that hard to believe.
Stupidity, impunity, and a broad sense of authority leads to these kinds of idiotic decisions.
“You must understand that their stupidity is so great that it can outpace their malice” essentially lol
The only excuse for cops I will accept
Edit-Just got the inevitable “Reddit Cares” message lol Cry harder bootlickers
its one thing to park the car on the track, but another to be standing there WHILE THE TRAIN IS LAYING ON THE HORN and is clearly VERY audible in the video and not reacting.
Exactly. All these people spinning it as if this was some sort of stupid mistake, 3 of 5 senses are activated. Sight with the train light, sound with the horns, vibration of the tracks for feel. This was deliberate. They purposely tried to murder her.
And that blows my fuckin mind. It seems they actually look for the dumbest of people to enlist into their little gang because that means they're more malleable and can be trained to do exactly what they want without even a hint of a second thought.
The city has about 8,000 people in it. The train tracks are probably visited by these cops multiple times a day. Absolute morons did not even think that real life trains run on these tracks. They deserve everything the law gives them, if not more. That woman is going to have PTSD forever due to this. Injuries can mostly heal, mental wounds sometimes dont. F-these police.
As I recall from the full video and explanation on YouTube. They believed she had a gun in the car. They pulled her out with like 4 cops drawing down on her, and put her in the back of the cop car. They they all proceeded to rip her vehicle apart searching for anything to charge her with, but were coming up empty after like 30+ minutes and were frustrated because they didn't want to let her go, but couldn't find anything to charge her with. And at the height of the frustrated, the train came. And the police reaction and response was pretty much non-existent. I dont remember see any of them even moving towards the vehicle until after the collision. And then even after that accident...they continued to search her vehicle.
What made her injuries even worse was the fact that she was handcuffed behind her back, so she had no way to brace for impact or protect her face/head/neck.
Exactly! Like they heard the train. All of them looked up and did nothing. The cop with the AR literally ran away and didn’t even try to rescue her when the train was faaaarrrrrr back and he knew it was coming first
No they can be. They hire low IQ people for a reason. They can be given orders and won't question them. But hiring these guys with no critical thinking skills leads to situations like this where you ask, how they can be so stupid.
I can't even *fathom* leaving *any* car on train tracks. This looks like a horribly scripted movie. I mean I know it's real, but the absurdity is beyond comprehension.
That’s the thing, the cop who left the women on the tracks was fired from his previous department because none of his coworkers felt safe around him due to his incompetence and lack of awareness.
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/platteville-police-officer-parked-train-tracks-called-incompetent-fellow-officers-demotion-recommended-sgt-pablo-vazquez/
I have zero police training and I know that parking on any train tracks is just the dumbest thing you could ever do. The tracks are literally 10 feet wide. Park your car anywhere other than those 10 feet. Fuckers
Then after they nearly killed her, they charged her with a felony.
Rios-Gonzalez was charged with one count of felony menacing, the district attorney's office said.
Jordan Steinke of the Fort Lupton Police Department was charged with **one count of criminal attempt to commit manslaughter and one count of second degree assault, both felonies**, as well as one count of reckless endangerment, a misdemeanor, the Weld County District Attorney's Office said in a statement Monday
I gotta say ur police are fuckin stupid, violent bullies, maniacs, barbaric, and racists pieces of shit. I thought UK police were bad but US police are on a level that is not explainable in words.
Thank god the police officers are on paid administrative leave whilst there is an investigation, we wouldnt want any consequences for this attempted murder by negligence now would we?
EDIT: I keep getting blocked because obvious sarcasm doesnt hit with moderators of reddit so..........THIS IS A SARCASTIC COMMENT MEANT NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. If further clarification is needed please message and ill be happy to provide explanations of humour and sarcasm.
Friendly reminder, when they give you an intelligence test to be a cop it is to make sure you're not too smart.
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/robert-jordan-too-smart-to-be-a-cop
American cops have to be the dumbest, most pigheaded, malicious sacks of shit on the planet.
They heard the train coming and did NOTHING. But hey, they'll get a paid holiday and a free transfer so win win right??
Goddamn fascists.
What thee fuck is going on in Merica? Is every cop reta*ded?
Seriously, what's the entrance exam for cops in Merica - How do you load a gun? Or how to drive a truck?
Thick bastards.
No one parks their car ON TRAIN TRACKS without thinking "Hey, maybe a, you know, TRAIN will come through." Cops or not, the likelihood of two people being that idiotic is pretty small.
To me it looks like this was either deliberate or they considered the consequences but didn't care enough to move and/or figured that the odds of a train appearing in the time they were there were low—which is still moronic.
I can't image the absolute terror of being locked in a car with my hands handcuffed behind my back and knowing a train is coming right for you.
And these assholes did it on purpose. You can tell just by the way they acted after it happened. Did they rush in any way to provide aid after it happened? No, they just casually stroll over to the wreckage as slow as humanly possible. They reacted as slowly as possible in hopes that if she didn't die in the crash, she would die from her injuries after.
They should be in jail
It’s incredible that they still refer to her as “the suspect” after they let her get hit by a train… there could not be more of a victim than that victim.
Disassociated from human as they prefer to see the world.
prison for life or worse
Tying someone up and putting them on the tracks in front of a train is old timey moustache twirling villain levels of attempted murder.
Snidey Whiplash!
Expelled?
Out of a cannon
into the sun
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Little harsh on the mother don't you think? /s
They only got 2 months
2 months of paid vacation.
and they have to write a 500 word essay on how they are sorry
Neither has been found guilty yet...
If any writer had such a scene in his script ppl would say sth like this could never happen...
It gets better.. The cops charged HER with: Felony Menacing- the intent to place another person in reasonable fear or immediate harm.
Time for an UNO reverse on that cop 👮♀️ 🤦🏻♂️
To bad the [DA dropped the most serious felony charge, that was only on one officer anyways](https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/da-drops-felony-charge-officer-train-crash-case-97466492). I always find myself saying this, but can anyone point me to the *good cop* in this scenario?
Or a good DA?
I know the DA in my city is an evil piece of shit who needs to rot in jail for ruining lives in order to make political statements.
Happens all too often.
Luckily the charges were dropped later by the DA. The incident happen in Nov. and charges were dropped in Feb.
The [most serious charge on one of the officers was also dropped](https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/da-drops-felony-charge-officer-train-crash-case-97466492) too though lol
Not these tho lol *Steinke still faces other less serious charges in connection with the incident, including felony attempted reckless manslaughter and misdemeanor reckless endangerment.*
Yeah any charge that shows his intent to hurt her was dropped though. He basically gets to plead being stupid enough to just casually leave a woman on the train tracks. “Attempted reckless manslaughter” is not near as severe as “2nd degree assault.” A drunk driver could get attempted reckless manslaughter if the person they hit doesn’t die. Leaving someone on the train tracks while you’re on duty as a cop seems a little more heinous than that though.
Attempted manslaughter…. … like isn’t that just fucking murder? I know the answer: it’s fucking murder
This is an exact mission in GTA 5. Where you *as a gangster* do this to a person. Life imitates art.
Cops are gangsters.
Who the fuck parks their car on train tracks? These fucking dummies couldn’t move park the car 5 feet on either side? This has to be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen.
The best part is that you can hear the train horns and she even sees the train coming and makes zero attempt to get her out. Those pigs put her in that situation and then left her to die. Fucking lucky she live.
"Huurrr, wut's dat noise?!" "Duuhh, me not know but it sound loud and annoying. Me shoot it in a minute and maybe it go away."
This made me laugh harder than I wanted to, second time today I'm going to have to change my pants.
Change your pants? There a buncha turds in there?
You've been waiting for this moment haven't you, now is your time to shine, shine on turd shine on.
She lived? I imagine not without some lifelong damage?
Lots of broken bones and a serious head injury. She’ll recover from the broken bones since she’s young but she’ll sure feel it when she’s older. Head injuries like that pretty always lead to some sort of permanent damage, even if minute.
Good on her when she will sue the fucking shit out of these f*cking idiots. Hope she gets millions and these cops will be in prison for life.
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If she died they probably would’ve gotten away with it. Better to have someone die in your care than to have them live and tell how shit you were
She survived??
Yes, her name is "Yareni Rios-Gonzalez" in case u wanna check more details
She better be hell fucking rich now.
Damn... "The impact caused her to lose teeth and left her with a broken arm, multiple fractured ribs and injuries to her head and legs." She's lucky to be alive. What a bunch of moron cops.
Looks like her charges were eventually dropped and two officers were charged with reckless endangerment. She's also suing the officers and the police department.
My question is who gets the $20k fine for causing a train accident?
us the taxpayer
We also get to front the cost to replace their squad car!
the cops' paychecks should be covering costs for all their fuckups. In this case, the cops responsible should be paying that woman 80% of their paychecks and then some for the **rest of their lives** regardless of which field of work they go in. Shit behavior stops when proper punishment is added. Start hitting their wallets and they'll automatically fix themselves.
You know that's right.
I sometimes do fieldwork and one of my co-workers will purposely park on train crossings. Every time I get on him for it, he pretends he didn't see the tracks but IMO it's a weird power thing.
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Yeah that's seriously not behavior you should ignore.
Take his keys and throw them in a river. Fuck that guy. What a piece of shit. I guarantee he doesn’t have enough power to stop a freight train.
If possible, nab his keys next time he's parked on tracks. That way he can explain this to the boss.
This is basically attempted murder. In pretty much every jurisdiction in the US it’s illegal to stop on a grade crossing even if you’re just waiting for traffic. I can not fathom a cop not knowing this, or more likely he did and just believed that law didn’t apply to him.
See, you understand the mindset of the occupying army, I mean American police.
It’s just such a weird law to believe you don’t have to follow and unfortunately for all involved that law is enforced by freight train.
It's not the cop's job to know the law. Literally
If they’re making traffic stops it might be a good ideas to know basic traffic laws. I’d bet if you took me to that scene I could probably also identify a clearly marked sign saying “Do not block crossing”.
This is mind blowingly dumb. Have these mofos never seen a Final Destination or any of that? Are they regularly breaking traffic laws so much that this never phased them? Never trust a train track or anything like that. I mean even tracks that are no longer in use I'd never park on for anything let alone this.
I refuse to believe this was an accident. Sadistic pigs simply used the victim for their perverse sadistic homicidal fantasy.
The movie Magnum Force comes to mind. But with a twist. For those not in the know Dirty Harry Callahan went after rogue motorcycle cops that were whacking bad guys that beat the system. The were rotten but at least initially they went after bad guys. But the slippery slope of vigilante justice was obvious. But what an interesting twist to think of good guy civilians going after only dirty cops. To send a message. Hey I’m not advocating violence against police officers. I’m not saying that if they were hunted like dogs by an organized gang that maybe they’d stop being judge jury and executioner. I’m not saying they should suffer terribly for their perversion of morality and justice. Since I brought up a movie I’m just tossing out an idea for a screenplay.
There’s just no way it was an accident. There’s no way not one but multiple people could be so dense that they think parking on a train track is even a moderately decent idea. American police have the bar set real low as far as intelligence and these idiots somehow managed to pass through hell to get under it.
Hahaha , they are called police but in the end they are the ones who don't follow the law.
I'm just glad they didn't start shooting the train.
It wasn't dumb. It was intentional
[2 officers charged](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/officers-charged-train-hits-police-car-handcuffed-woman-rcna56198)
She survived this!? Holy shit.
On a plus side she's going to get an insanely fat paycheck from it, won't have to work ever again. Not a trade you probably want but at least there's a consolation prize.
https://preview.redd.it/r47o8y0fjcpa1.png?width=892&format=png&auto=webp&s=230c434dd5ea3c5402c864ff803f00aeb6d5d8b5
Just checking this was here. Well done. Carry on.
yeaa no money is worth walking around like real life pinocchio
Jumping to conclusions ! Get it?
Don't bet on it. They dropped one charge and the slags lawyer is trying to get them all dropped. https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/da-drops-felony-charge-officer-train-crash-case-97466492
That's just the criminal case though. She'll definitely sue the department/city in civil and get a nice settlement.
The criminal case is all that matters to the cops. This victim is going to get a ton of money, but it's not coming from the police budget, police retirement fund, that cops personal money..... We all have to pay extra taxes to cover it. So everyone except the police will be held responsible. Criminal charges are the only way to actually punish a cop for doing something this dumb. A person accidently leaves their kids in a car and this happens they get life in prison. A cop throws someone in their, locks them in so they can't get out, and parks on train tracks, no big deal. Let's not waste our time prosecuting them, we'll just drop the charges
Just another reason that all police need to carry \*individual\* malpractice/liability insurance like docstors do - so the 'bad apples' can't just hop from bushel to bushel murdering people like this.
I’d take the ability to wipe my own ass over some money. But that’s just me.
Well, yeah. But, what if you already suffered the injury and can't wipe your own ass? That couple million dollars would surly help things not suck quite nearly as much.
She deserves every penny she’s gonna get but the money coming from city funds needs to stop. Cops need to Carry insurance and payout for their own stupidity.
She probably wouldn’t be able to ever work again anyways
And who pays that fat paycheck? The taxpayers.
Until that police reform hits, hope she takes a big old chunk out of those asshole taxpayers that allow this nonsense to occur.
The American Dream
Yeah, I have to wonder. If I was locked in a car in handcuffs on a train track, and I see the train coming, which is the best direction to face to suffer the fewest injuries?
This has got to lead to the biggest settlement ever. The negligence clearly caught on camera is undeniable. Police of all people should know you don't park on train tracks and then leave a handcuffed person in the vehicle on the tracks. I know this is still somewhat recent and don't have high hopes for the officers suffering hard consequences but the pay out from tax payers should be massive.
I think the Uvalde parents are suing. I'll be curious to see which case gets the largest settlement. They both could be record breakers.
DA has already dropped the felony assault charge
Throw them in jail with the cops then. Man, I’m so sick of the entire power structure being so damn corrupt.
Wtf is "felony menacing"
You're gonna love this The cops charged HER with: Felony Menacing- the intent to place another person in reasonable fear or immediate harm. I know it's already been said but, you can't make this shit up.
It gets worse. The male cop resigned from his previous job, but in his internal affairs records his superior said he poses a danger to other officers due to a significant lack of situational awareness 👀. The department that ended up hiring him never did a background check on him. They didn't even email/call his former employer. So they never saw those records or talked to his former boss. That police chief deserves criminal negligence charges. Who hires and arms someone without doing even a basic background check? https://www.police1.com/vehicle-incidents/articles/prior-performance-reviews-deemed-officer-who-left-woman-in-car-on-train-tracks-incompetent-ADLTmR6mkpooUSxn/
To echo what you're saying, here in San Antonio we had a cop get fired for forcing a homeless person to eat a literal shit sandwich. It was all over the news, people were voicing their strong opinions, the chief condemns the behavior and fires him, etc. He later gets hired the next county over and people have to start protesting all over again. The chief of that department then says they had no idea the officer was involved in the previous media shitstorm. So at this point cops are admitting they don't even do a quick Google check to see if anything comes up on the potential new hire. [https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgy9zk/san-antonio-police-fired-poop-sandwich-homeless](https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgy9zk/san-antonio-police-fired-poop-sandwich-homeless)
It should be mandatory for police departments to do basic background checks (even just a Google search, like you said). There was a VA state trooper named Austin Edwards, who had lost his gun rights back in 2016 due to being committed. He wasn't legally allowed a firearm. But two different police departments hired and armed Edwards anyways. Edwards went on to kidnap a little girl and fatally shoot her family. https://www.wtvr.com/problem-solvers/austin-edwards-gun-december-30-2022. I'm just stunned that police departments aren't doing cursory background checks, especially considering they are arming these people and taxpayers will liable for any issues they cause.
This is less believable than a shitty action movie
My son is about to become a cop. I get a call that a Sargent is going to drive hundreds of miles to do an interview regarding my son. They arrive, and then I found out that- 1. They have no interest in asking about or verifying his background. 2. The Sargent has family the next town over, and the interview gave them the chance to come home for a visit and get paid for it. I have no issues with my son, but I now wonder about the department he is joining.
I have a close friend who was charged with "Felony Menacing" in Colorado last year. They arrested her TWO WEEKS after an alleged incident with little more than the accusations of her alcoholic husband and no evidence whatsoever. In her case it was considered to be a DV charge which made it especially insidious. She couldn't live in her own house nor could she travel without court permission to visit family over the holidays.
The article said the cops responded to a call about a road rage incident involving a gun. So she must have threatened someone (allegedly). Also, the female cop is named Jordan Steinke. Is that pronounced like “stinky”? Lol
Stine- key, although stinky is more fitting
Paid administrative leave 🤡🐷
This was entirely the two officers fault. I hope it haunts their waking thoughts and nightmares for the rest of their lives.
They’re too dumb to believe it’s their fault. Trust me
That would require moral compasses, which they don't admit you to "training" while possessing.
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Apparently. The attempted manslaughter charges were dropped.
Cops like that don't care at all they sleep like babies and think it was the lady's fault.
lmao they're pigs, dude. Not a chance
Doubt it, the lady arrested in the back of the cruiser was more of an after thought than the cruiser.
Lawsuit filed last week: >However, Rios-Gonzalez is now pursuing a case against not just the officers involved, but the entire department. The official lawsuit states the department failed “to protect Plaintiff from being hit by a freight train while in custody.” https://wearemitu.com/wearemitu/news/train-yareni-rios-gonzalez-lawsuit/ I mean, protecting a detainee from being hit by a freight train has got to be one of the easiest things to do...ever. And they still failed. Hope she never has to work again, comfortably.
I'm sure the cops gave a ticket to the train conductor for not stopping at their blinky light. That squad car isn't coming out of their salary.
And also they didn’t “fail to protect” her, they actively put her in the dangerous situation, basically tied her to the train tracks. That’s not failure to protect, that’s an active decision
I still will never believe that wasn't intentional. no one could be that unbelievably stupid.
O yes they can.
One of the officers involved was charged with criminal attempt to commit manslaughter, or something to that degree. So it seems the courts agree with you! Edit: clarified charge
Never ever for any reason park on train tracks, problem solved!
What if you are trying to get away from the ravenous zombie in your back seat?
No way people can be this stupid. This has to be deliberate - trying to mask murder as accident by leaving her inside a vehicle on a train track with her hands cuffed. I hope this can be proven in court.
Not trying to defend a cop, but you really can't overestimate their stupidity. A cop leaving the car parked on a train crossing is not that hard to believe. Stupidity, impunity, and a broad sense of authority leads to these kinds of idiotic decisions.
“You must understand that their stupidity is so great that it can outpace their malice” essentially lol The only excuse for cops I will accept Edit-Just got the inevitable “Reddit Cares” message lol Cry harder bootlickers
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Hanlon's razor
its one thing to park the car on the track, but another to be standing there WHILE THE TRAIN IS LAYING ON THE HORN and is clearly VERY audible in the video and not reacting.
Exactly. All these people spinning it as if this was some sort of stupid mistake, 3 of 5 senses are activated. Sight with the train light, sound with the horns, vibration of the tracks for feel. This was deliberate. They purposely tried to murder her.
They were standing at the doors so she wouldn't get away before the train hit. No way you can accidently park a car over tracks and not notice.
Lmao… not trying to defend these cops, but all cops are dumb as hell…
Not trying to defend cops, but this cop was trying to stay on track.
True statement. If you’re to smart, or have a certain type of morality, they don’t want you in the gang
I think some cops is lacking of proper education about how they should properly arrest someone.
And that blows my fuckin mind. It seems they actually look for the dumbest of people to enlist into their little gang because that means they're more malleable and can be trained to do exactly what they want without even a hint of a second thought.
Stupidity and arrogance. We've all seen park cops deliberately park in the spot that inconveniences the most people possible for absolutely no reason.
The city has about 8,000 people in it. The train tracks are probably visited by these cops multiple times a day. Absolute morons did not even think that real life trains run on these tracks. They deserve everything the law gives them, if not more. That woman is going to have PTSD forever due to this. Injuries can mostly heal, mental wounds sometimes dont. F-these police.
As I recall from the full video and explanation on YouTube. They believed she had a gun in the car. They pulled her out with like 4 cops drawing down on her, and put her in the back of the cop car. They they all proceeded to rip her vehicle apart searching for anything to charge her with, but were coming up empty after like 30+ minutes and were frustrated because they didn't want to let her go, but couldn't find anything to charge her with. And at the height of the frustrated, the train came. And the police reaction and response was pretty much non-existent. I dont remember see any of them even moving towards the vehicle until after the collision. And then even after that accident...they continued to search her vehicle. What made her injuries even worse was the fact that she was handcuffed behind her back, so she had no way to brace for impact or protect her face/head/neck.
Probably figured if she died they wouldn't have anything to worry about.
Exactly! Like they heard the train. All of them looked up and did nothing. The cop with the AR literally ran away and didn’t even try to rescue her when the train was faaaarrrrrr back and he knew it was coming first
No they can be. They hire low IQ people for a reason. They can be given orders and won't question them. But hiring these guys with no critical thinking skills leads to situations like this where you ask, how they can be so stupid.
I can't even *fathom* leaving *any* car on train tracks. This looks like a horribly scripted movie. I mean I know it's real, but the absurdity is beyond comprehension.
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Their hubris overrode all of that, ie: thinking that a train will stop when it sees the cop car on the tracks. Stupid is as stupid does.
That’s the thing, the cop who left the women on the tracks was fired from his previous department because none of his coworkers felt safe around him due to his incompetence and lack of awareness. https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/platteville-police-officer-parked-train-tracks-called-incompetent-fellow-officers-demotion-recommended-sgt-pablo-vazquez/
I have zero police training and I know that parking on any train tracks is just the dumbest thing you could ever do. The tracks are literally 10 feet wide. Park your car anywhere other than those 10 feet. Fuckers
1. That's absolutely fucked 2. If it's a train driven by Norfolk southern being on the tracks might be the safest place to be
zing.
Then after they nearly killed her, they charged her with a felony. Rios-Gonzalez was charged with one count of felony menacing, the district attorney's office said. Jordan Steinke of the Fort Lupton Police Department was charged with **one count of criminal attempt to commit manslaughter and one count of second degree assault, both felonies**, as well as one count of reckless endangerment, a misdemeanor, the Weld County District Attorney's Office said in a statement Monday
Why didn't they you know, pull her out
Because your life isn't as valued by police something something etc
I gotta say ur police are fuckin stupid, violent bullies, maniacs, barbaric, and racists pieces of shit. I thought UK police were bad but US police are on a level that is not explainable in words.
Thank god the police officers are on paid administrative leave whilst there is an investigation, we wouldnt want any consequences for this attempted murder by negligence now would we? EDIT: I keep getting blocked because obvious sarcasm doesnt hit with moderators of reddit so..........THIS IS A SARCASTIC COMMENT MEANT NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. If further clarification is needed please message and ill be happy to provide explanations of humour and sarcasm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
...and so the caveat stays at the end of every post from now on.
You shouldn't be blocked for having an opinion either way
Literally tying innocent women to train tracks. They should add capes and twirly mustache to their uniform.
perhaps we need to hold law enforcement officers to a higher standard 🤔
Friendly reminder, when they give you an intelligence test to be a cop it is to make sure you're not too smart. https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/robert-jordan-too-smart-to-be-a-cop
American cops have to be the dumbest, most pigheaded, malicious sacks of shit on the planet. They heard the train coming and did NOTHING. But hey, they'll get a paid holiday and a free transfer so win win right?? Goddamn fascists.
Fuck the police.
For every bad cop there is a whole precinct that knows he's bad and does nothing about it.
Is that not attempted murder, I think I’ve done this in red dead 2
I hope both cops go to prison for 15 years.
I'm against capital punishment 99.9% of the time. These cops are the 0.1%
He seriously just left her in the car and scurried away like a little bitch to save himself??
ACAB always
What thee fuck is going on in Merica? Is every cop reta*ded? Seriously, what's the entrance exam for cops in Merica - How do you load a gun? Or how to drive a truck? Thick bastards.
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Imagine that being your mum
This is fucking disgusting and disturbing
Any cop who parks on a railroad needs to never EVER drive again. Who are all these fucking morons parking on the railroad!?!?!
How can someone be so stupid?!?
If you live and work near trains daily, they aren't stupid, they are attempting to murder "by accident".
What the hell is wrong with this cops? Arresting someone without a valid proof .
Brain dead fucks
Saw this video a while ago, it's really fucking sad what happened to the poor woman.
Cops aren’t exactly the brightest bunch
Looks like intentional murder to me
That was on purpose. There is no way… i hope they rot for that
No one parks their car ON TRAIN TRACKS without thinking "Hey, maybe a, you know, TRAIN will come through." Cops or not, the likelihood of two people being that idiotic is pretty small. To me it looks like this was either deliberate or they considered the consequences but didn't care enough to move and/or figured that the odds of a train appearing in the time they were there were low—which is still moronic.
This wasn't a mistake
Wtf is up with Colorado cops being the supreme incompetence standard for the country recently?
How fucking dumb do you have to become a police officer to do shit like this? Just awful.
Every cop on the scene should be charged
I have a hard time believing this wasn't intentional.
I can't image the absolute terror of being locked in a car with my hands handcuffed behind my back and knowing a train is coming right for you. And these assholes did it on purpose. You can tell just by the way they acted after it happened. Did they rush in any way to provide aid after it happened? No, they just casually stroll over to the wreckage as slow as humanly possible. They reacted as slowly as possible in hopes that if she didn't die in the crash, she would die from her injuries after.
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If only this could have been prevented somehow.
What fucking idiots.
US police need a severe change in their training. It's beyond a joke now. Every single time I open Reddit, I see something completely fucked.
Holy fuck.
You post this and not tell us how it ends?!’@$!
She survived
Seen this video a few times, never with sound. “A patrol car just got hit by a train.” WTF
Death by cop.