Poll of the Day > California Cops MISTAKENLY Kill a 24 y/o Girl but said it was JUSTIFIED!!!

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California Police shot and killed 24 y/o Jennifer Vasquez on early christmas day after they got a report of a woman driving a suspected stolen car that was involved in a shooting..but it was reported that she was NOT the one involved NOR was the car she was driving!!

Jennifer was killed and her 28 y/o passenger, Linda Carmona Bruno was injured in the shooting in San Jose as Sgt. Enrique Garcia said officers responded to reports of shots fired from a white car.

They tried to stop the car but the driver took off leading to a chase down the city streets and onto the freeway

A witness flagged down police and directed them to her and said "that way, they shot"

The driver rammed into a police car before they opened fire into the vehicle.

Vasquez died on scene and the female passenger was treated for wound and booked into jail for outstanding misdemeanor warrant which is likely why they fled

Police released a statement that said "Officers must respond and react only with the information they have at the time. The fleeing stolen vehicle did appear at the time to be the suspects in a triple shooting in multiple areas of the city. Demonstrating a complete disregard for life and using the car to plow into an officer's vehicle while officers were standing in te immediate area from what they believed were armed attempted homicide suspects was the reason they fired. After further investigation, we do not believe it was the same vehicle involved in the shooting and no weapon was located. However, knowing that it matched the description at the approximate time of the shooting, was a stolen vehicle and the individual was so desperate to get away, all further led the officers to believe it had been involved in the shooting"

Loved ones state the shooting as "unjustified murder" as the victim's aunt, Virginia said "We feel everything is unfair. It was a different car and different person. We want this to go farther, more investigation."

Her cousin, Consuela said "She was scared. She was scared for sure. You know, when things happen, you don't think".

Do you think this was "justified"?

Jennifer - Deceased

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/12/28/04/7888120-6534593-image-a-35_1545971652338.jpg

Linda - Injured

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/12/28/04/7888110-6534593-image-a-36_1545971665955.jpg

Scene -

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/12/28/04/7888118-6534593-image-a-37_1545971677789.jpg
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mrduckbear posted...

The driver rammed into a police car before they opened fire into the vehicle.

Fair, next.

If she obided by the law she wouldve walked away without a scratch
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So, she ran from the cops to start with, then she RAMMED their car? Yeah, man,...she's totally innocent.
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reason posted...

So, she ran from the cops to start with, then she RAMMED their car? Yeah, man,...she's totally innocent.

Well, she was, by the police's own admission...
mrduckbear posted...

After further investigation, we do not believe it was the same vehicle involved in the shooting and no weapon was located.

But don't let the facts get in the way of your self-constructed narrative.

Sgt. Enrique Garcia said officers responded to reports of shots fired from a white car.

Dispatch: "Suspect is driving a white car"

American cops: "Better open fire on every white car I see, then"

lol American cops just love to gun people down
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I usually don't side with the cops and I don't like them playing judge jury and executioner, but she started a chase and rammed their car. The initial call of a shooting being accurate I can't say I blame the cops in this case.
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ArvTheGreat posted...

If she obided by the law she wouldve walked away without a scratch

Well she likely would've gotten a small beating and get left at the curb, but it's better than death.

Rooster_Sucker posted...

Dispatch: "Suspect is driving a white car"

American cops: "Better open fire on every white car I see, then"

lol American cops just love to gun people down

They opened fire on a car that was acting in a way expected of a murderer.
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ArvTheGreat posted...

If she obided by the law she wouldve walked away without a scratch

Intentionally hitting someone with a car is assault with a deadly weapon and can be attempted murder in most states. It will always justify deadly force.

Yeah, I'm gonna call fair here.
Maybe she didn't know about the shootings, and maybe had she known she probably wouldn't have started the chase and subsequent ramming of the police vehicle. And maybe she would have walked away with her life.

I know if I'm hunting for a white car suspected of triple murder/homicide, and a white car rams into my cruiser, I'm not going to take any chances. If they WERE in fact the shooters, it would have only taken them a second to pull a gun and open fire on the officers.

I don't know about you folks here who are defending these women, but you must not value your own lives very much. Just put yourself in their situation and ask yourself if it would have played out much differently.
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Cops weren't white

Fair, next

All joking aside, don't run from the cops.
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ASlaveObeys posted...

Intentionally hitting someone with a car is assault with a deadly weapon and can be attempted murder in most states. It will always justify deadly force.

Pretty much. This wasn't simply a matter of the cops chasing down a white car and shooting the driver, this was a case of opening fire on somebody who very plainly seemed to be trying to kill the officers. That's pretty fair.

streamofthesky posted...

reason posted...

So, she ran from the cops to start with, then she RAMMED their car? Yeah, man,...she's totally innocent.

Well, she was, by the police's own admission...
mrduckbear posted...

After further investigation, we do not believe it was the same vehicle involved in the shooting and no weapon was located.

But don't let the facts get in the way of your self-constructed narrative.

She was innocent of the crimes they were trying to solve, but fleeing like that definitely suggests some other form of guilt. Regardless of prior crimes, though, had she survived this encounter, she would have been charged and convicted of attempted murder/assault with a deadly weapon, assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, and possible dangerous driving if they felt like rubbing it in. In that moment, she had not yet been proven to be guilty in a legal sense, but in a practical sense she was very much not innocent.

ArvTheGreat posted...

If she obided by the law she wouldve walked away without a scratch

You don't know that. There is a reason people are scared of the cops. Even when you obey they still kill you sometimes

Doesnt sound very mistakenly, rather it sounds like they intentionally fired at a murder suspect as she attempted to run them over with her car...
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DrCidd posted...

I don't know about you folks here who are defending these women, but you must not value your own lives very much.

I personally wouldnt go that far...
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streamofthesky posted...

reason posted...

So, she ran from the cops to start with, then she RAMMED their car? Yeah, man,...she's totally innocent.

Well, she was, by the police's own admission...

Of this crime, perhaps but those are not the actions of an innocent person
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Syntheticon posted...

streamofthesky posted...

reason posted...

So, she ran from the cops to start with, then she RAMMED their car? Yeah, man,...she's totally innocent.

Well, she was, by the police's own admission...

Of this crime, perhaps but those are not the actions of an innocent person

Well, they said something like the passenger had warrants or something. And they said they believe thats why she fled. It was in the OP...
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Red_Frog posted...

mrduckbear posted...

The driver rammed into a police car before they opened fire into the vehicle.

Fair, next.

Yeah I don't know if half the people voting are even reading what happened

streamofthesky posted...

But don't let the facts get in the way of your self-constructed narrative

But... that's kind of what you did since you ignored the whole part about running from the cops and slamming into one

OhhhJa posted...

streamofthesky posted...

But don't let the facts get in the way of your self-constructed narrative

But... that's kind of what you did since you ignored the whole part about running from the cops and slamming into one

Yeah, easy to confuse that behavior as that of someone who's just shot and potentially killed multiple people.
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