<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">What side of your mouth should we listen to? How can someone be "perfectly appropriate and reasonable" and in the next sentence you say "I'm not saying the family is right..."Originally posted by G L:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by craig.:
Your original post implied the family blamed the police for the death of their daughter. This did not happen.
Their anger is perfectly appropriate and reasonable. I'm not saying the family is right, but I do understand why they feel the way they do.
Apparently you missed this section of the original news story Jumper posted:
"At a candlelight vigil Monday outside City Hall, about 75 people celebrated Mechley's life. Some carried signs critical of the police, including: "Next Time Look Twice, She Deserved Better and We've Got Questions. Got Answers?"
If that isn't laying blame, what is?[/QB]</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I do believe this will be the third time I've made the point that the family places blame on the police for not looking around. This is not a point of argument. I did, however, refute jumpers assertion that the family blamed the police for the death of the woman.
I kindly ask that you not twist my words into something they are not.
I can understand the family's extreme grief over the horrendous nature of the loss of their loved one. It's particularly heinous that they must see their loved one highlighted on police video over and over and over again on local media. How horrible it must be for them to experience this, knowing that someone they loved laid on the side of major highway for 9 hours.
I can understand the anger. Whether they are correct or not about police actions, I can understand the anger in their time of grief. It is perfectly reasonable and appropriate.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Not in traffic accidents they aren't.Originally posted by Jumper69:
Aren't family members ALWAYS the first suspects?
Like I said I understand that their upset. I just believe they're upset at the wrong people.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The tone of your quote below suggests otherwise.Like I said I understand that their upset.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well, like I said, I'm sorry for their loss but FUCK THEM AND THE TRIPLE WHOPPER WITH CHEESE THEY EAT THREE TIMES A DAY!
<font color="#FFFFAA" size="1">[ March 29, 2005 11:16 AM: Message edited by: craig. ]</font>
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">From the police video, it appears the police car pulled over shortly after passing the body. I do not know the distance, but it appears the police car was parked somewhere between the sight of the accident and the deceased woman.Jump, she wasn't 40 feet away. She was 1/10 of a mile away from the car.
I do think it behooves the police department to examine who was where and when, and give a public, professional explanation why it was so easy to miss the dead woman.
From a public relations standpoint, it is important to explain how someone can lie unnoticed by the side of a major interstate for nine hours.
<font color="#FFFFAA" size="1">[ March 29, 2005 11:24 AM: Message edited by: craig. ]</font>
I do understand that they're upset. I also stand by what I said that you quoted.
There is no fault to be assigned to the police in this case. No fault for not finding her. No fault for the accident.
To get on TV and publicly question the police and whether they were negligent (not quoted but implied) is still wrong. To hold signs up that demand answers....answers to what? This woman is dead and that's a tradgedy. Bury her, mourn her. But shut the F up about how the police are somehow a fault for not finding an already dead body. She didn't suffer those 9 hours.
Unless it was a hit/skip, the fault lies with the deceased. Nobody else.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Let's hope she didn't, and it's fair to say she's "lucky" she didn't. And let's hope something like this doesn't happen in the future.She didn't suffer those 9 hours.
<font color="#FFFFAA" size="1">[ March 29, 2005 01:04 PM: Message edited by: craig. ]</font>
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">To what specifically are you referring?I also stand by what I said that you quoted.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That may be, but I find your lack of empathy toward their situation to be most cold and rather disturbing.I do understand that they're upset.
<font color="#FFFFAA" size="1">[ March 29, 2005 01:07 PM: Message edited by: craig. ]</font>
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Why do you keep making this a point? The family never blamed the police for the accident.No fault for the accident.
Only you have said the family blamed the police for the accident. Repeatedly. And that's not true.
<font color="#FFFFAA" size="1">[ March 29, 2005 01:11 PM: Message edited by: craig. ]</font>
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I concur that this is most damning evidence in favor of the police. I find it difficult to believe that for nine hours not a single motorist saw a dead woman and didn't care to call the police.If, like you state reason, that for 9 hours nobody ELSE saw the body either tells me it wasn't readily observable.
I've not heard any evidence to suggest police were not notified until 7am the next morning.
<font color="#FFFFAA" size="1">[ March 29, 2005 05:37 PM: Message edited by: craig. ]</font>
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