Motorist killed as police respond to bomb threat targeting Marjorie Taylor Greene
Motorist killed as police respond to bomb threat targeting Marjorie Taylor Greene
A woman is dead following a “tragic chain of events” 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 Greene’s 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.
Seems like it would've been better to call Marjorie to tell her not to open her mailbox instead of rushing to the house at speed.
so the spam filters worked.
Obviously the bomb was waiting for read receipt before arming, duh.
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, Pickelsimer’s 2002 Mazda Protege pulled out of a Rome parking lot into the path of the officer’s 2015 GMC Sierra truck. The officer applied the brakes but the truck struck the Mazda near the driver’s 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)…wanna bet the cop was driving at a high rate of speed, in a vehicle without lights and sirens?
Also a good reason why driving a giant vehicle like a GMC Sierra that smashes anything it touches shouldn't be free. A higher vehicle tax on something like that would be appropriate, instead they get higher tax write-offs and lower emissions and safety standards.
Personal vehicle: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/12/10/marjorie-taylor-greene-bomb-threat-car-crash/76884681007/
I'm sure it'll 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.)
I'd 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.
The only way it's misleading is in the usual refusal to acknowledge that the police killed this innocent person. It's always the same passive voice, as if people keep magically dropping dead when the police happen to be around.
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? I’d 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. It’s almost never reported.
2)…wanna bet the cop was driving at a high rate of speed, in a vehicle without lights and sirens?
I wouldn't bet against it but I've 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 20' in front of us. The Samurai we were in was totaled and so was her Buick. She didn't 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.
I'm not defending the cop but sometimes drivers just do dumb shit, especially older ones.
Sure. Stuff happens.
But given the urgency in the cop… I have to assume he was rather more than somewhat at fault.
And probably distracted using his laptop.
The officer applied the brakes
Of course they applied their brakes, just like they "fear for their life" or "told the citizen to comply" while beating their brains out - they just make up whatever fanciful lies they can to escape the justice they purport to represent.
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.
Yea of a car pulls out in front of a citizen that might have been going 1mph over the limit and slams on the breaks but the person who pulled out dies the driver that was "speeding" 100% will be charged.
What kind of dillweed makes a bomb threat with no demands attached? That's some real amateur hour stupidity, right there, unless there was a demand and it just wasn't disclosed. 'Cause otherwise, there's no point.
Law enforcement is going to get the target the hell out of the area and then find the bomb you just told them about, or not if there was in fact no bomb (which seems to be the case here), so either way your presumptive target is not going to get got no matter how you slice it.
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
I’d watch MTG burn.