A woman is dead following a âtragic chain of eventsâ that began with a bomb threat against Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene at her Rome home, police said.
You left out the best part:
According to Rome police, the department received an email listing Greeneâs home address and saying a pipe bomb had been placed in her mailbox shortly after 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 6. The email initially went to a junk folder and was not seen until Monday at about 9:30 a.m.
And rather than the journalists saying âthree days oldâ and giving exact dates, itâs just âMondayâ
It was opened at 9:30 on December 9th. It sat in the junk folder all weekend, the police found it, and a police officer driving a personal truck killed someone
Seems like it wouldâve been better to call Marjorie to tell her not to open her mailbox instead of rushing to the house at speed.
They werenât rushing to the house at speed. The accident occurred when an officer was driving his personal vehicle to the department so that he could get ready to respond to the situation.
The lady who died pulled out from a parking lot in front of him, and got t-boned on the driver side.
Well, that seems like a non-department-related accident. My employer isnât responsible if I get in an accident on my way to work, not sure why that would be different here.
Given that itâs MTG, the first thing she would probably do after being told not to open her mailbox would be to open her mailbox. Not that Iâm saying itâs a bad plan.
The article says it was someone rushing to the bomb squad HQ, not to MTGâs house. Also it says they contacted her first and she wasnât home.
On the way to the headquarters in their personal vehicle, a Rome Police sergeant and bomb squad member collided with another vehicle driven by 66-year-old Tammie Pickelsimer.
A Georgia State Patrol spokesperson said the traffic incident is still under investigation, but according to the initial findings, Pickelsimerâs 2002 Mazda Protege pulled out of a Rome parking lot into the path of the officerâs 2015 GMC Sierra truck. The officer applied the brakes but the truck struck the Mazda near the driverâs side front door. Pickelsimer was taken to a hospital where she died from her injuries. The officer suffered minor injuries and has been released from the hospital
- clickbait. The lady was not associated with or even anywhere near the purported bomb.
2)âŚwanna bet the cop was driving at a high rate of speed, in a vehicle without lights and sirens?
Iâd argue it isnt clickbait and is a fairly accurate title. Motorist killed as police respond. The motorist was hit while the police were responding. The title never claimed the motorist had anything to do with the bomb threat, that was the context for the police response. Typically when the headline is refering to someone involved with the crime, they use the term suspect. The fact they used motorist actually gave me a hint it was an unassociated party that was hit.
It including that it was to a bomb threat towards green implies an untrue association.
Was the title technically accurate? Yes. Is it still click bait? Iâd say yes. Cops kill people responding to (and no where near,) calls with a startling regularity.
Some cop got up and yehawwed through traffic without the usual aids to make it safe. It happens. Itâs almost never reported.
A headline trying to get you to read an article!? The scandal of the century.
It doesnât imply that the motorist had any association with the crime. It barely implies that the two events are related and doesnât even suggest that the police were involved in the killing.
Where do you get they were responding? This says they were heading to headquarters in a personal vehicle. Theyâre not rushing to the scene of anything here.
They were called in for a bomb threat (as bombsquads usually are,) but had to report to the station first.
so they were ârespondingâ to the bomb threat, but had to go gear up before actually heading out. So itâs fair to say they were ârespondingâ, particularly since highly specialized cops like bomb techs only catch certain kinds of calls, and other cops stay the hell away from them.
Personal vehicle: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/12/10/marjorie-taylor-greene-bomb-threat-car-crash/76884681007/
Iâm sure itâll come out later that he was speeding.
Sometimes, cops that are frequently on call are allowed to install lights or sirens on personal cars so they can get into their station quickly.
Bombsquad calls are less frequent but generally urgent.
In any case, I would suggest he was driving like he had lights and sirens, despite not having them. Which makes it incredibly unsafe to do, and places blame squarely on the cop. (Though the article made sure to mention she pulled into his way.)
Though the article made sure to mention she pulled into his way
I mean, like it or not, thatâs the way the law reads and is applied. We run into it with motorcycles all the time. Barring extreme cases, the car that pulls in front of the speeding vehicle is âat fault.â
2)âŚwanna bet the cop was driving at a high rate of speed, in a vehicle without lights and sirens?
I wouldnât bet against it but Iâve had the same thing happen. Buddy was driving and it was a bright sunny summer afternoon. We were doing all of 30MPH and an old lady pulled out onto the road maybe 20â in front of us. The Samurai we were in was totaled and so was her Buick. She didnât die but she did spend a couple of days in hospital. I bounced my head off the windshield so hard I was knocked out and I bent the passenger door out a good 4" with my right arm / elbow. My buddy was also knocked out from banging his head off the windshield even with his seatbelt on. That can happen when your vehicle is suddenly gets 18" shorter.
Iâm not defending the cop but sometimes drivers just do dumb shit, especially older ones.
wanna bet the cop was driving at a high rate of speed, in a vehicle without lights and sirens?
Only if youâre giving like +1500, then I might bet like $10
lol, my usual go-to internet wager is pet photos. Doesnât even need to be your pet :)
The officer applied the brakes
Of course they applied their brakes, just like they âfear for their lifeâ or âtold the citizen to complyâ while beating their brains out - they just make up whatever fanciful lies they can to escape the justice they purport to represent.
âThe department holds the individual responsible for sending the threatening email fully accountable for setting this tragic chain of events into motion.
âGuys itâs literally not even the drivers faultâ
When her family sues, the pig is going to make a qualified immunity defense. Itâs fucking disgusting.
I donât think qualified immunity affects civil suits like wrongful death. AFAIK it only covers criminal charges like murder.
Foreign agents getting the police to kill us, one by one.
Of course the police take zero responsibility. Their accounting of the events includes apply the brakes a piece of information that sounds sus.
