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.
And rather than the journalists saying “three days old” and giving exact dates, it’s just “Monday”
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
“Look what you made me do!”
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.
Given that it’s MTG, the first thing she would probably do after being told not to open her mailbox would be to open her mailbox. Not that I’m saying it’s a bad plan.
Yeah, just tell her it’s the woke liberals tell her what she can and can’t do.
They weren’t 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 isn’t responsible if I get in an accident on my way to work, not sure why that would be different here.
I’m not so sure. If I’m commuting to work that’s one thing, but if I’m responding to a page from my employer that’s different. This officer, though heading to work, was in the process of responding to the threat. They weren’t just commuting as part of their morning routine.
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you’re not a pig though, no special rules for you
Yeah, the cop was definitely speeding though.
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The article says it was someone rushing to the bomb squad HQ, not to MTG’s house. Also it says they contacted her first and she wasn’t home.
So they were rushing to an empty house to rescue who exactly?
They believed there was a bomb in the mailbox. If she lives in a neighborhood that’s still potentially near other people. My mailbox is on a sidewalk that folks use from time to time.
so the spam filters worked.
I also filter email from Matt Gaetz to Junk.
Why is Matt Gaetz emailing you? Are you a high school girl?
They might be. lemmy.world rules require someone be 18+, though I doubt he’d go after a senior.
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?
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.
A headline trying to get you to read an article!? The scandal of the century.
It doesn’t imply that the motorist had any association with the crime. It barely implies that the two events are related and doesn’t even suggest that the police were involved in the killing.
I wouldn’t concede the technically accurate part myself. That second paragraph really throws that into doubt.
Where do you get they were responding? This says they were heading to headquarters in a personal vehicle. They’re 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 “responding” to the bomb threat, but had to go gear up before actually heading out. So it’s fair to say they were “responding”, particularly since highly specialized cops like bomb techs only catch certain kinds of calls, and other cops stay the hell away from them.
Exactly, so not rushing to the scene of the crime , but going to change clothes. If their expertise was needed immediately they would have headed right to the scene, and if equipment was needed it would have met them there. Of course it’s all moot because if you actually read the article, you’d see that the bomb threat was made on Friday, and this happened on the following Monday. So tell me again what they’re responding to? Tell me again why he had to kill this woman? Did this even have anything to do with the bomb threat or are they just using it as an excuse when they really just killed a woman?
and if equipment was needed it would have met them there.
Ahhh… Okay. But wait, the equipment can’t teleport or drive itself there, right? So maybe this person was doing that, getting the equipment there, so other people could drive straight there?
Tell me again why he had to kill this woman?
They never said that, lol
What do you mean maybe this person was doing that? Where are on Earth you getting that from? They’re absolutely implying the death of this woman was justifiable due to an emergency. An emergency that didn’t exist. Which I note that you didn’t address at all.
Where? They only said it wasn’t click bait and that the accident happened while the officer was responding. “They’re absolutely implying the death of this woman was justifiable due to an emergency.” They never ever say it was justifiable. Show me where.
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.)
Though the article made sure to mention she pulled into his way
I mean, like it or not, that’s 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 ‘at fault.’
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.
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.
wanna bet the cop was driving at a high rate of speed, in a vehicle without lights and sirens?
Only if you’re giving like +1500, then I might bet like $10
lol, my usual go-to internet wager is pet photos. Doesn’t even need to be your pet :)
When cat photos are exchanged we all win.
I don’t have a cat, so take this instead… shamelessly ripped off c/cats (rocket may have been good for a few shared chuckles on my end. Compliments of PugJesus)
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.
When her family sues, the pig is going to make a qualified immunity defense. It’s fucking disgusting.
I don’t think qualified immunity affects civil suits like wrongful death. AFAIK it only covers criminal charges like murder.
Other way around. Qualified immunity prevents cops from being sued. It does not shield them from criminal charges.
(The corrupt prosecutorial and judicial systems do that instead.)
It covers civil liability if you meet the requirements listed in Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800 (1982).
Homer Simpson: “Only covers criminal charges… so far”
“The department holds the individual responsible for sending the threatening email fully accountable for setting this tragic chain of events into motion.
“Guys it’s literally not even the drivers fault”
Man, fuck the police.
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.
Some A-Train shenanigans afoot
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.
Leave the MTG dumbshit alone, the opposition should never harm a complete idiot. The classic example, the Allies never tried to assassinate “The Little Fucking Austrian Corporal,” because they knew who fucking everything up.
