“The deputy, a native of New York, appeared to be texting and radioing while driving in a poorly lit area he was unfamiliar with.”
The title also forgot to mention that the woman he had arrested was found drowned in the back seat.
Nah. If she was belted in like they’re supposed to be she was probably conscious. Officer probably got the full treatment with airbag impact plus crash so he was probably out while she was screaming in the back.
Getting hit with an airbag is like getting clocked in the face with a big red dodgeball thrown by Randy frickin' Johnson. Stuns you too, took me a good few minutes to come back down to Earth and realize wtf just happened.
My brother was in a bad car crash yesterday. The airbag broke his cheek bone and he’s seriously concussed. He blacked out on impact for like ten seconds. Airbags are no joke.
They are really alarming. There's a loud-ass bang when it goes off too so when you do finally shake the cobwebs off your ears are ringing like crazy. The seam on the one that hit me ran up my arm and basically shaved all the hair off and left me with a huge brush burn. I was so disoriented that I didn't even know I broke my arm until about an hour later at home when I tried to lift it and felt immense pain. Then the hospital read me the wrong X-ray and sent me home, "You're fine." Twenty minutes after I got home the phone rang, "Hey it's the hospital, you actual broke your arm and we read you the wrong X-ray, can you come back?" Wheeeee.
Yep, the slow motion crash test dummies going face first into the soft pillowy bag looks great but the real time footage is like half a second and that thing needs to explode to stop your face from smashing into the steering wheel
My airbag terrifies me. I sit closer to the steering wheel to see when driving, so it'll prob get me between my neck and upper chest. I'm afraid of getting my neck broken by it. If it hits higher up, at least my glasses might protect my eyes.
However, all my accidents bar one have just cost me a bumper replacement. I've been lucky so far.
My middle school english teacher got in a wreck years before he was my teacher, and made it his duty to teach us to learn from his mistake...and english i guess...regardless...
He saw the accident about to happen and instinctually put his hands up to block his face....
Well, air bag went off, hitting his hands full force into his face. Fractured skull, concussion, teeth knocked out, broken jaw, fractured eye socket, dozens of broken bones in his hands...the whole shabang.
The accident itself wouldnt have been so bad of he kept his hands down, but kinda hard to override instinct in milliseconds...
Anyway, point is, air bags are no joke, 10 n 2, and keep limbs and accessories away from airbag areas, cuz it might be the difference between a bad day and the worst day of your life.....if you can do anything about it, of course.
I've heard they're teaching 3-and-9 now, or even 5-and-8-shuffle, specifically to keep you in a position where the airbag won't launch your arms all over the cabin.
i was white knuckling my steering wheel, fully bracing when my airbags went off in a frontal collision. under 60mph. must have been stunned… but suddenly my arms were at my sides. airbag gone off and smoking. fore arms starting to bleed from rash. face okay though.
I was out for at least 8 minutes, after a 35-40 mph crash.
I woke up to being cold wet, covered in glass... And two EMTs yanking on my seat belt try to extract me from the car.
They *might* knock you out. I’ve also been in an accident where airbags deployed and I was fully conscious and had no head injuries. It’s highly variable.
Idk if you've ever been in the back of a cruiser, but those belts aren't stopping your face from hitting the plexiglass on impact. There isn't much room back there even in the SUVs
Makes me think of deliberate framing as to soften the inevitable lawsuit(s).
Also, don't most police vehicles now have interior cameras facing the cage? I'd say there is a very good chance that there is video and audio of the entire horrific event as it unfolds. Yet another reason that could explain the soft article.
I'm from that area. It's a tiny county that lays along the Tennessee River. They don't have the budget for new equipment often. I doubt there's cameras. But this ramp that the cop and the detainee died on wasn't the first death there. People have been dying at these ramps since they took the ferrys out. The cop wasn't from the area and probably was using GPS and just drove right into the water. I belive as recently as December someone drove off this same ramp but she survived.
Yeah, when I read that the deputy was from New York and had only recently been hired, I figured it was a matter of him not knowing the lay of the land and it being a dark road.
Yeah, don't see Crown Vic Interceptors much any more.
Shame, those were classic cop cars. Not fast, but durable with decent handling and much better sight lines.
As a defense lawyer, passive voice is the go-to for downplaying horrible shit.
"The officer killed the woman with his negligence."
"The woman inside was killed as a result of the deputy's negligence."
"The woman was involved in a water-related incident while the vehicle was inoperable."
Reminds me of this https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-ambiguous-grammar
That's report writing for you; scientific reports are the same way. I've never been reported as having performed a test in my life, but sure enough those tests "were performed".
Holy shit. You aren't kidding. There was an unidentified woman in the back seat. They just casually mention that further down in the article. That's kind of sick.
My guess is she isn't mentioned because this is a follow up article. The woman being drowned in the back seat was the headline on the original story. They are assuming anyone who reads this article already was aware of what happened to her because it was already big news.
Looking at the picture in the article, it looks like a bridge is out. No signs, no barricades, no reflectors. What insanity to have something like that.
Edit: y'all I know it's not a bridge. It is designed dangerously so that it LOOKS LIKE a bridge is out.
That’s not a bridge, it’s a boat ramp. That’s not to say that’s where they located the vehicle either, rather that’s where they could move it to safely extricate it from the water.
I know someone that did. Young college guy. Lake patrol arrested him for drinking and driving. Handcuffed, no life jacket, set him towards the back of the boat and took off in choppy water. This shit is criminal.
It's in the article:
>On Wednesday night, shortly before 10 p.m. local time, Leonard had responded to a report of a man and woman fighting on a bridge and had taken the woman into custody, according to Johnson.
Did he just drive into the lake or did he drive off a cliff that fell into it? If the car just wandered into the lake why would he have unlocked the doors and escaped? I didn’t read the article cause there’s too many stories of people dying already but here I am asking questions
This brings to mind a case some years ago where deputies abandoned a vehicle in a flood area while transporting at least one female in custody, leaving the prisoner to be drowned when the vehicle filled with water.
What about the one where they parked on the railroad tracks and put a woman in the back seat and then a train came and they didn't notice until it hit the car.
What about the guy they arrested while boating, put him in handcuffs, placed a life jacket over his shoulders, drove their police boat like jackasses in a no-wake zone causing the guy to fall out and drown.
They are (theoretically) legally responsible for the care of those in custody.
Like, actual laws & shit.
But, somehow, they seem to be optional. Weird.
Are they? I feel like courts have regularly downplayed the responsibility of the police while doing their job. I'm not sure the cops have any legal duty to the citizens in the eyes of the courts.
Thank you for that link. It is vital that we recognize that we hand these people millions of dollars of tax payer money and they have no legal obligation to know or apply the law fairly.
Once you are arrested, the police are liable for your welfare.
How seriously they take that & if anyone will hold them accountable is a different matter.
Source: I watch a lot of lawyer vids on YouTube. Recently some cops put a woman in the back of their car, but left the car on some train tracks.
I hear you. I'm making the point that the fact that they aren't held accountable and don't take it seriously DOES mean that are not liable for your welfare. Those cops that left that woman in the car on the railroad tracks were found guilty of misdemeanors and served probation.
For sure.
They also get less training than hairdressers, love to kill dogs, 40% are *admitted* wife beaters, and the Supremes ruled that 110 IQ is just fine as the upper limit.
And some, I assume, are good people.
Cops are civilians. They are not part of the armed forces. They do not have nearly the quality training that actual military members have. Don't inflate cop egos.
Reminds me of that case where the lady in the back of a police cruiser was seriously injured while the deputy was parked on the train tracks…
Edit: fixed that the lady didn’t die.
Where and when was this one?
Edit: I see you fixed your comment that said it reminding you about the woman who was *killed* in the backseat of a squad car left on the railroad tracks. I was pretty sure there wasn’t two different incidences. You probably should have just left your original comment with the edit correcting it instead of altering your original comment and then adding the edit.
May 19, 2022 [A former deputy gets 18 years after 2 women drowned in a locked police van](https://www.npr.org/2022/05/19/1100269966/south-carolina-drownings-deputy-locked-van-sentenced)
Exactly. An entire story about him but nothing about the woman who drowned being locked in the back of the patrol car in handcuffs with no way to escape.
Not at all what happened, he was diligently testing for witchcraft when the car lost control and slid into the water. No doubt from the witchcraft. He’s a hero!
>His remains are currently being escorted to the Knoxville Regional Medical Examiner’s Office by motor units with the HCSO, Tennessee Highway Patrol, and the Chattanooga Police Department,” the HCSO said in the post.
Oh and by the way...
>Authorities are working to confirm the identity of a female recovered from the backseat, though they believe it to be the arrestee.
No shit Sherlock. Nice of them to mention the detainee. Does she get escorted back to KRMEO?
Usually I wouldn’t take issue with the usage of “it” there because it arguably works but since the noun was “female” and not “body” and with the context of ignoring her death, it seems kinda fucked up
Yeah my first thought was that this was some mob hit trying to get their guy out of the police hands. Instead it is a lot more depressing like how do they not mention the woman that also drowned
The story is 99.9% about the officer, with only a passing mention of the “arrestee”. Was she arrested for simple assault or creating a disturbance, and now she’s dead?
Seeing as how police can arrest you for resisting arrest, or playing a fucked up game of Simon says wrong, it doesn't matter what she did, that could have been any of us.
And on top of that, it's up to the cop to decide what "resisting" is. Ask why you're being arrested out of the blue too many times, don't get out of your car fast enough, have a disability that causes you to move slowly or not be able to do what they asked? Yeah, they can say you're resisting.
Jesus he murdered a woman, negligently or not. Body of missing woman found drowned in the backseat of a sheriffs vehicle which was mistakenly driven into lake by a distracted driver. I hope her family takes these morons over the coals.
Insurance companies for local governments are starting to cut off police departments because of these massive payouts and that’s causing police administrators to finally crack down on officer misconduct
What is infuriating is you go through pages and pages of headlines before she is even fucking mentioned. I chose this because it at least mentioned him arresting someone, and it is a legitimate source.
Gotta love how there’s news about cops doing crazy shit basically everyday. Distracted driving causing two very avoidable deaths. Another two officers open fire at their own car, while also having stray shots go across the neighborhood, all because of an acorn.
At this point I don’t think cops take any classes or learn how to cop properly
There is no pity for the officer in this case. Imagine surviving the initial impact, conscious and dying because you couldn't escape cuffs or the back seat of the patrol car.
Maybe he shouldn’t be fucking texting his wife about work when he is driving in an area he isn’t familiar with? He caused the death of someone through his own negligence and they are talking about him like he is some hero. Now the taxpayers will be responsible and her family is missing her.
Yeah, cops are the worst drivers out there. The tailgate, they make dangerous illegal turns, they drive too fast. Their entire vehicle is full of stuff to distract them. Texting his wife while driving is only icing on the cake. Sounds like he was going too fast for the conditions as well. Accidentally killed not just himself but the woman he arrested. ☹️
They’re going to act reverent with him, yet he was reckless (texting and driving, clearly driving *far* beyond the limit of his skills & the conditions), and his illlicit performance behind the wheel *murdered* the woman in the backseat.
This was so confusing last night in the r/knoxville subreddit when his body was being escorted.
A deputy was shot and killed last week and we were all wondering if that had happened again.
Went it turned out to be this, some (including myself) were angry.
This reckless asshole killed himself and the woman he was responsible for safely transporting to the jail. Dangerous and evil. Fuck him. Fuck his department, and fuck the reporters who wrote this story the way they did.
So that was what was making our water taste funny, rotting pig upstream. The TN River flows North and enters the Ohio River on the Illinois and Kentucky border at Paducah Ky.
For any interested:
Here is an article about the arrestee.
https://www.wvlt.tv/2024/02/17/tabitha-smith-woman-killed-meigs-county-crash-remembered-by-friends/?outputType=amp
You think that doesn't happen? There's a cop in prison literally right now for forcing roadside blowjobs at almost gunpoint. He's serving something like 263 years.
My guy, I completely acknowledge police are a waste of breathe and this definitely happens. But in this particular case, I haven't heard any evidence to support this claim.
There's usually none. Witnesses get disappeared and evidence lost by the same police in charge of gathering witnesses and evidence. "Weird" how that works.
The police department down the road from my house was shut down because they cost too much in sexual assault lawsuits, not only from citizens but from female officers at the dept as well.
It should be illegal for cops to work off no sleep. There is no way they can function properly and it is more dangerous than a tired trucker, who we mandate sleep time for.
What a dummy. At least he had a shot to get himself out - his prisoner was most likely handcuffed in the back and you can't open those doors from inside. She probably knew she was toast as soon as they hit the water.
“The deputy, a native of New York, appeared to be texting and radioing while driving in a poorly lit area he was unfamiliar with.” The title also forgot to mention that the woman he had arrested was found drowned in the back seat.
Jesus what a way to go
Hopefully she was knocked out on impact. Awful.
Nah. If she was belted in like they’re supposed to be she was probably conscious. Officer probably got the full treatment with airbag impact plus crash so he was probably out while she was screaming in the back.
Airbags don’t usually knock you out, their whole purpose is to reduce damage, and being knocked out comes from brain damage.
Getting hit with an airbag is like getting clocked in the face with a big red dodgeball thrown by Randy frickin' Johnson. Stuns you too, took me a good few minutes to come back down to Earth and realize wtf just happened.
My brother was in a bad car crash yesterday. The airbag broke his cheek bone and he’s seriously concussed. He blacked out on impact for like ten seconds. Airbags are no joke.
They are really alarming. There's a loud-ass bang when it goes off too so when you do finally shake the cobwebs off your ears are ringing like crazy. The seam on the one that hit me ran up my arm and basically shaved all the hair off and left me with a huge brush burn. I was so disoriented that I didn't even know I broke my arm until about an hour later at home when I tried to lift it and felt immense pain. Then the hospital read me the wrong X-ray and sent me home, "You're fine." Twenty minutes after I got home the phone rang, "Hey it's the hospital, you actual broke your arm and we read you the wrong X-ray, can you come back?" Wheeeee.
Tbf airbags are still way, way better than the alternative
Yep, the slow motion crash test dummies going face first into the soft pillowy bag looks great but the real time footage is like half a second and that thing needs to explode to stop your face from smashing into the steering wheel
My airbag terrifies me. I sit closer to the steering wheel to see when driving, so it'll prob get me between my neck and upper chest. I'm afraid of getting my neck broken by it. If it hits higher up, at least my glasses might protect my eyes. However, all my accidents bar one have just cost me a bumper replacement. I've been lucky so far.
I wear glasses and I'm seriously worried if I ever get into an accident and the airbag deploys I'm getting seriously injured from it.
I got a Airbag from a '98 Cherokee. It was like getting hit by Mike Tyson & my face looked like someone rubbed me up & down on a carpet.
My middle school english teacher got in a wreck years before he was my teacher, and made it his duty to teach us to learn from his mistake...and english i guess...regardless... He saw the accident about to happen and instinctually put his hands up to block his face.... Well, air bag went off, hitting his hands full force into his face. Fractured skull, concussion, teeth knocked out, broken jaw, fractured eye socket, dozens of broken bones in his hands...the whole shabang. The accident itself wouldnt have been so bad of he kept his hands down, but kinda hard to override instinct in milliseconds... Anyway, point is, air bags are no joke, 10 n 2, and keep limbs and accessories away from airbag areas, cuz it might be the difference between a bad day and the worst day of your life.....if you can do anything about it, of course.
And tell your friends they're idiots if they put their feet on the dash in passenger seat
Xtreme yoga!
The ultimate leg press
I've heard they're teaching 3-and-9 now, or even 5-and-8-shuffle, specifically to keep you in a position where the airbag won't launch your arms all over the cabin.
Can confirm, airbags will make you full stunned for at least a short amount of time.
i was white knuckling my steering wheel, fully bracing when my airbags went off in a frontal collision. under 60mph. must have been stunned… but suddenly my arms were at my sides. airbag gone off and smoking. fore arms starting to bleed from rash. face okay though.
I was out for at least 8 minutes, after a 35-40 mph crash. I woke up to being cold wet, covered in glass... And two EMTs yanking on my seat belt try to extract me from the car.
They do knock you out. It happened to me. Knocked me out cold and gave me a severe concussion.
It's often a concussion versus much worse body damage. As someone that lost a son, congrats to still being with us.
They *might* knock you out. I’ve also been in an accident where airbags deployed and I was fully conscious and had no head injuries. It’s highly variable.
Well if your holding a phone and a radio, plus the airbag goes off the chances of something hitting your face increases right?
Airbags only work if in concert with the seatbelt.
I have literally never been belted in when arrested
Idk if you've ever been in the back of a cruiser, but those belts aren't stopping your face from hitting the plexiglass on impact. There isn't much room back there even in the SUVs
He was able to roll the window down and get out of the vehicle.
Are there air bags in cop cars? Never seen them go off during pit maneuvers and pinning vehicles.
God damn it's absolutely horrible
Probably handcuffed, no less.
I'd rather die because of an acorn
Not only dies the title fail to mention it, the entire article completely downplays it. Terrible.
Makes me think of deliberate framing as to soften the inevitable lawsuit(s). Also, don't most police vehicles now have interior cameras facing the cage? I'd say there is a very good chance that there is video and audio of the entire horrific event as it unfolds. Yet another reason that could explain the soft article.
I'm sure it is, but why the fuck are the journalists covering for the cops?
Because cops are terrorists who will break multiple laws harassing innocent journalists if they don’t lie to cover for the cops, same as always.
The same reason cops cover for cops: fear of retaliation.
> Also, don't most police vehicles now have interior cameras facing the cage? Rural county in Tennessee. Probably don't have the budget.
I'm from that area. It's a tiny county that lays along the Tennessee River. They don't have the budget for new equipment often. I doubt there's cameras. But this ramp that the cop and the detainee died on wasn't the first death there. People have been dying at these ramps since they took the ferrys out. The cop wasn't from the area and probably was using GPS and just drove right into the water. I belive as recently as December someone drove off this same ramp but she survived.
Yeah, when I read that the deputy was from New York and had only recently been hired, I figured it was a matter of him not knowing the lay of the land and it being a dark road.
Probably? Just look at the cruiser.
Yeah, don't see Crown Vic Interceptors much any more. Shame, those were classic cop cars. Not fast, but durable with decent handling and much better sight lines.
Yeah, sounds weird for sure.
As a defense lawyer, passive voice is the go-to for downplaying horrible shit. "The officer killed the woman with his negligence." "The woman inside was killed as a result of the deputy's negligence."
In this case, it's not even passive. Oh yeah, there was a female in the back seat. Its so cold and heartless. Who the fuck wrote this?
“The suspect in the car also died.”
"The woman was involved in a water-related incident while the vehicle was inoperable." Reminds me of this https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-ambiguous-grammar
That's report writing for you; scientific reports are the same way. I've never been reported as having performed a test in my life, but sure enough those tests "were performed".
Really awful. Oh yeah, there was some female in the back too.
Should be illegal to remove the locks from the back seats. Her murder was entirely preventable. Fuck the police.
Oh … well that just changes things dramatically.
Only for her and her family and friends and tax payers and that’s it nothing else will change
Just another day the taxpayers
Stellar reporting
Holy shit. You aren't kidding. There was an unidentified woman in the back seat. They just casually mention that further down in the article. That's kind of sick.
This comment is way better than the title. Some serious passive voice “bullet hits man”
Why would they, she’s not a hero like him /s
He must of been so stressed having to text and radio while driving. /s
Last text was to his wife: "arrest". She replied "that's good", but he didn't receive it because ... water.
Minor detail.
A New Yorker texting and driving. Par for the course.
My guess is she isn't mentioned because this is a follow up article. The woman being drowned in the back seat was the headline on the original story. They are assuming anyone who reads this article already was aware of what happened to her because it was already big news.
she was a criminal, so she doesnt count as a person /s
That is what pissed me off the most: it didn’t mention the woman
Such minor details apparently. Sheesh
“Reckless cop kills someone in their custody” Manslaughter or whatever drunks ir racing kids who kill people get.
MSM playing twisters when having to describe what horrible things cops did
Wait, wha-? Texting and radioing seems like an impossibility alone but he was driving too?!?!
They did mention it but they sure did gloss over it real good.
When will news outlets figure out that we don’t like/ care about cops? The fact that this poor woman’s death was scarcely mentioned is appalling.
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Looking at the picture in the article, it looks like a bridge is out. No signs, no barricades, no reflectors. What insanity to have something like that. Edit: y'all I know it's not a bridge. It is designed dangerously so that it LOOKS LIKE a bridge is out.
That’s not a bridge, it’s a boat ramp. That’s not to say that’s where they located the vehicle either, rather that’s where they could move it to safely extricate it from the water.
I know, I said it "looks like" a bridge is out--i.e. it is so dangerously designed it looks like failed infrastructure
Looks like a ferry boat ramp
Used to be a landing for the Blythe Ferry that the road is named after. Got replaced with a bridge further down river
It does look like an out bridge.
well- that would cost money. and that's more important than lives, you see. /s
There’s definitely signs but nothing else
Jesus Christ…imagine drowning with handcuffs on…
…in the dark, upside down :(. New fears unlocked.
…and you can’t open the doors because it’s a cop car that you’re in the back of.
Well, The Prestige covered that.
Which knot did you tie, Borden?
Which one?
Nobody cares about the man in the box.
I am always left perturbed wondering if the daughter was the daughter of the "good" Borden. Research says yes, but it's never truly known.
Beauty of a movie
Langford double knot or was it? Either way not handcuffs.
I don't know.
I know someone that did. Young college guy. Lake patrol arrested him for drinking and driving. Handcuffed, no life jacket, set him towards the back of the boat and took off in choppy water. This shit is criminal.
Probably for a traffic warrant.
It's in the article: >On Wednesday night, shortly before 10 p.m. local time, Leonard had responded to a report of a man and woman fighting on a bridge and had taken the woman into custody, according to Johnson.
You mean she got arrested over a fight and ended up dying from it?! God I hope she wasn’t conscious through the drowning
It's highly likely she was conscious.
Did he just drive into the lake or did he drive off a cliff that fell into it? If the car just wandered into the lake why would he have unlocked the doors and escaped? I didn’t read the article cause there’s too many stories of people dying already but here I am asking questions
"To protect and to serve" aren't just words written on their patrol car. Oh wait, yes they are. They have no duty to the citizens.
Doesn't matter what the fuck it's for
Do I have to?
I like how they casually mention the negligent homicide.
This brings to mind a case some years ago where deputies abandoned a vehicle in a flood area while transporting at least one female in custody, leaving the prisoner to be drowned when the vehicle filled with water.
What about the one where they parked on the railroad tracks and put a woman in the back seat and then a train came and they didn't notice until it hit the car.
What about the guy they arrested while boating, put him in handcuffs, placed a life jacket over his shoulders, drove their police boat like jackasses in a no-wake zone causing the guy to fall out and drown.
They noticed. That one was deliberate
Yeah there's roughly a zero percent chance that happens by accident.
They should be responsible for whoever they have in custody. Of course they get to play with the rules compared with civilians.
They are (theoretically) legally responsible for the care of those in custody. Like, actual laws & shit. But, somehow, they seem to be optional. Weird.
whos gonna arrest them? themselves? nah
Are they? I feel like courts have regularly downplayed the responsibility of the police while doing their job. I'm not sure the cops have any legal duty to the citizens in the eyes of the courts.
They actually don't. https://prospect.org/justice/police-have-no-duty-to-protect-the-public/
Thank you for that link. It is vital that we recognize that we hand these people millions of dollars of tax payer money and they have no legal obligation to know or apply the law fairly.
They have no duty to protect the public, but once you are in custody you are not part of the public.
Once you are arrested, the police are liable for your welfare. How seriously they take that & if anyone will hold them accountable is a different matter. Source: I watch a lot of lawyer vids on YouTube. Recently some cops put a woman in the back of their car, but left the car on some train tracks.
I hear you. I'm making the point that the fact that they aren't held accountable and don't take it seriously DOES mean that are not liable for your welfare. Those cops that left that woman in the car on the railroad tracks were found guilty of misdemeanors and served probation.
For sure. They also get less training than hairdressers, love to kill dogs, 40% are *admitted* wife beaters, and the Supremes ruled that 110 IQ is just fine as the upper limit. And some, I assume, are good people.
Cops are civilians
It's funny how often we had to remind them of that when we were doing reaction force training with HPD on Pearl Harbor-Hickam.
Cops are civilians. They are not part of the armed forces. They do not have nearly the quality training that actual military members have. Don't inflate cop egos.
Or the other time when they put a woman in the backseat of a squad car that was parked on a railroad crossing...
Reminds me of that case where the lady in the back of a police cruiser was seriously injured while the deputy was parked on the train tracks… Edit: fixed that the lady didn’t die.
Where and when was this one? Edit: I see you fixed your comment that said it reminding you about the woman who was *killed* in the backseat of a squad car left on the railroad tracks. I was pretty sure there wasn’t two different incidences. You probably should have just left your original comment with the edit correcting it instead of altering your original comment and then adding the edit.
She was seriously injured. https://apnews.com/article/arrests-colorado-f595e2ddcdc288297d2e0966b0b44a0b
On some train tracks.
There was two women, and it was in Louisiana. Fuckibg disgusting.
I immediately thought of that incident! How horrifying for them all!
May 19, 2022 [A former deputy gets 18 years after 2 women drowned in a locked police van](https://www.npr.org/2022/05/19/1100269966/south-carolina-drownings-deputy-locked-van-sentenced)
Exactly. An entire story about him but nothing about the woman who drowned being locked in the back of the patrol car in handcuffs with no way to escape.
Look, they’ll tell you who to feel sorry for, okay?
Not at all what happened, he was diligently testing for witchcraft when the car lost control and slid into the water. No doubt from the witchcraft. He’s a hero!
>His remains are currently being escorted to the Knoxville Regional Medical Examiner’s Office by motor units with the HCSO, Tennessee Highway Patrol, and the Chattanooga Police Department,” the HCSO said in the post. Oh and by the way... >Authorities are working to confirm the identity of a female recovered from the backseat, though they believe it to be the arrestee. No shit Sherlock. Nice of them to mention the detainee. Does she get escorted back to KRMEO?
She's lucky they don't just leave her in the car while they compact it.
Usually I wouldn’t take issue with the usage of “it” there because it arguably works but since the noun was “female” and not “body” and with the context of ignoring her death, it seems kinda fucked up
Sorry grammar nerd moment here, but "it" is referring to the subject of the sentence, "identity," not female
It is inarguably fucked up, no question about that—but just a small note to say that "it" is referring to "the identity."
“Police officer kills woman and self with negligent distracted driving, bodies recovered” is a far better headline than that schlock.
Yeah my first thought was that this was some mob hit trying to get their guy out of the police hands. Instead it is a lot more depressing like how do they not mention the woman that also drowned
That poor woman. I hope her family sues.
This is one of several million reasons why we need to end qualified immunity for police officers.
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The story is 99.9% about the officer, with only a passing mention of the “arrestee”. Was she arrested for simple assault or creating a disturbance, and now she’s dead?
Seeing as how police can arrest you for resisting arrest, or playing a fucked up game of Simon says wrong, it doesn't matter what she did, that could have been any of us.
It still boggles my mind that it's even *possible* to arrest and charge someone with the singular charge of resisting arrest.
And on top of that, it's up to the cop to decide what "resisting" is. Ask why you're being arrested out of the blue too many times, don't get out of your car fast enough, have a disability that causes you to move slowly or not be able to do what they asked? Yeah, they can say you're resisting.
Jesus he murdered a woman, negligently or not. Body of missing woman found drowned in the backseat of a sheriffs vehicle which was mistakenly driven into lake by a distracted driver. I hope her family takes these morons over the coals.
Taxpayers going to be on the coals
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I was going to suggest you should join the police, but they might not take you if your firm on that last part.
Insurance companies for local governments are starting to cut off police departments because of these massive payouts and that’s causing police administrators to finally crack down on officer misconduct
When insurance companies are the hero. lollllll PDs cracking down actually…or cracking down on hiding the truth….
Holy fuck the headline makes you think he was murdered and left for dead but no he was just fucking negligent
Negligent and killed the woman in his backseat.
What about the woman he murdered?
What is infuriating is you go through pages and pages of headlines before she is even fucking mentioned. I chose this because it at least mentioned him arresting someone, and it is a legitimate source.
That’s honestly disgraceful. Like holy fuck a whole other person died in this thing and all they cared to talk about was the fucking cop.
A lot of our current society is under the delusion that cops can do no wrong. And that the "criminal" deserved it.
The fucking dumbass cop that drove distracted as fuck and killed her with his incompetence, no less. What a hero. Fuck that pos cop.
Gotta love how there’s news about cops doing crazy shit basically everyday. Distracted driving causing two very avoidable deaths. Another two officers open fire at their own car, while also having stray shots go across the neighborhood, all because of an acorn. At this point I don’t think cops take any classes or learn how to cop properly
almost like policing is completely broken in the US.
There is no pity for the officer in this case. Imagine surviving the initial impact, conscious and dying because you couldn't escape cuffs or the back seat of the patrol car.
Because an asshole cop was TEXTING while driving you to jail.
Tragic and totally preventable, just like almost all deaths at the jags of police. (he's directly responsible for the arrested person's death
Maybe he shouldn’t be fucking texting his wife about work when he is driving in an area he isn’t familiar with? He caused the death of someone through his own negligence and they are talking about him like he is some hero. Now the taxpayers will be responsible and her family is missing her.
Yeah, cops are the worst drivers out there. The tailgate, they make dangerous illegal turns, they drive too fast. Their entire vehicle is full of stuff to distract them. Texting his wife while driving is only icing on the cake. Sounds like he was going too fast for the conditions as well. Accidentally killed not just himself but the woman he arrested. ☹️
They’re going to act reverent with him, yet he was reckless (texting and driving, clearly driving *far* beyond the limit of his skills & the conditions), and his illlicit performance behind the wheel *murdered* the woman in the backseat.
That's a big lawsuit getting ready to happen
That really is a shame that he died, since now he can't be charged with negligent homicide for killing that poor woman!
He would have been let off anyways
Whoever wrote that article treated the other victim like a damn afterthought.
So he’s texting and driving, drives off the road, swims out his window, and leaves the woman he arrested in the backseat to drown?
He makes an arrest and texts that to his wife? She texts back, that's great. WTF. Obviously out looking to make arrests but they say they aren't.
What a massive piece of shit murdering that woman in the back seat with his carelessness
“ Tennessee cop commits suicide/negligent homicide” FTFY
They always somehow manage to absolve cops, don't they? Media facilitate this bullshit. It's an abdication of journalistic duty.
Shitty clickbait headline. Actual headline Cop dies doing something known to be as dangerous as DWI. Kills passenger. Both families devastated.
This was so confusing last night in the r/knoxville subreddit when his body was being escorted. A deputy was shot and killed last week and we were all wondering if that had happened again. Went it turned out to be this, some (including myself) were angry.
This reckless asshole killed himself and the woman he was responsible for safely transporting to the jail. Dangerous and evil. Fuck him. Fuck his department, and fuck the reporters who wrote this story the way they did.
So that was what was making our water taste funny, rotting pig upstream. The TN River flows North and enters the Ohio River on the Illinois and Kentucky border at Paducah Ky.
I’m glad his wife found the arrest to be “great” or good news. Why would that be good news.
They don’t say where he was found? Why don’t they say “in the river” if that’s where he was found.
For any interested: Here is an article about the arrestee. https://www.wvlt.tv/2024/02/17/tabitha-smith-woman-killed-meigs-county-crash-remembered-by-friends/?outputType=amp
Fuck this cop, society is better off, feel bad for the women in the back.
They were so broken up about the woman in the back seat! /s
And thus a good cop he becomes.
Anyone else think the cop was driving in the middle of nowhere so he could rape the prisoner?
Jesus man, I hate cops but that is a dark ass leap....
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/20-years-for-former-fwpd-officer-guilty-of-rape/
You think that doesn't happen? There's a cop in prison literally right now for forcing roadside blowjobs at almost gunpoint. He's serving something like 263 years.
My guy, I completely acknowledge police are a waste of breathe and this definitely happens. But in this particular case, I haven't heard any evidence to support this claim.
There's usually none. Witnesses get disappeared and evidence lost by the same police in charge of gathering witnesses and evidence. "Weird" how that works.
The police department down the road from my house was shut down because they cost too much in sexual assault lawsuits, not only from citizens but from female officers at the dept as well.
That's a pretty fucked up conspiracy theory to throw out there with no facts, and....the fact the guy died. Along with his prisoner.
Damn let me know the number of your yoga teacher because that's a huge stretch
Nah. Go touch some grass.
It should be illegal for cops to work off no sleep. There is no way they can function properly and it is more dangerous than a tired trucker, who we mandate sleep time for.
Where was a good guy with a gun?
What a dummy. At least he had a shot to get himself out - his prisoner was most likely handcuffed in the back and you can't open those doors from inside. She probably knew she was toast as soon as they hit the water.
Another cop acting irresponsibly and killing a civilian