Storm the Castle girls?

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by smokeonthewater

the next question..... if they hadn't shot her and she had escaped long enough to crash into a schoolyard of kids killing several including her own baby would the officers then be criticized for not killing her when they had the chance?

Come on Smoke.. that's a fantasy hypothetical scenario with zero basis in factuality. You could just as easily say if she had escaped to Cape Canaveral and stolen a rocket to the moon would the police have been justified in using a missile to shoot her down. We have no evidence that she was planning to do anything like what you suggest. But..... if in fact, the police shot her to prevent her from doing what you suggest, then what's to prevent them from killing any one of us using the same rational?

The police are not allowed to theorize on what might happen in the future, only on what has happened already. She might just as easily have driven home, parked her car in her driveway, taken her meds, gone to bed and not remembered a thing about the entire incident the next day. Who's to say differently?

[smokeonthewater]

of course it's a hypothetical question.... I don't think I presented it any other way???

I really don't know what happened but as best as I can understand it she was trying to forcibly escape by ramming her car through police officers.... IF THAT IS THE CASE then deadly force is authorized by our current laws and they would have killed me or you or anyone else..... an automobile IS a deadly weapon.

male or female makes no difference here.... none at all.

the fact that she has mental problems doesn't give her a pass but does make it a tragic event that SHOULD have been avoidable.... One COULD argue that anyone who entered into a battle with the police had mental problems.


Who knows, maybe the first secret service man could have stopped the situation by telling her he would take her to the president and removing her from the car and detaining her right there and then.

[smokeonthewater]

Let me add that IF she was disarmed by the car being disabled then I fully agree that she should have been arrested but my understanding is that she was still moving the vehicle when shot