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Title: Sheriff Hailed Cops as Heroes, But Dashcam Shows them Listen to 3 Girls Scream as they Drowned
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Published: Apr 20, 2016
Author: Andrew Emett
Post Date: 2016-04-20 09:40:32 by Deckard
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St. Petersburg, FL – Newly released dash cam footage reveals a Florida sheriff lied last month when he falsely claimed that his deputies took off their gun belts and attempted to save three drowning teenage girls. Instead of attempting to rescue the dying teens, the deputies can be seen on video standing beside the pond while listening to the girls’ final screams. According to Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, a friend asked 35-year-old Damien Marriott to drive the three teenage girls to Child’s Park on Wednesday, March 30. For some reason, Marriott reportedly stopped at a Walmart to buy a TV when he left his keys in the ignition with the engine running along with three girls that he did not know sitting in his 1990 Honda Accord. Although Child’s Park closes at 8 p.m. on Wednesdays, Marriott did not return to his vehicle or report his car stolen until 8:30 p.m. that night. Several hours later, deputies reported seeing the Honda run a red light without its headlights on during a pursuit. Entering the back of a cemetery, the girls accidentally drove the Honda into a pond as deputies exited their vehicles and remained standing on shore. While the Honda submerged into the swamp, a recently released police dash cam video recorded a deputy exclaiming, “I hear them yelling, I think!” As the video moves forward another deputy can be heard saying, “They’re done. They are 6-7, dude.” “They were yelling,” a deputy responds. “I thought I heard yelling.” var qs=[]; for(var key in params) qs.push(key+'='+encodeURIComponent(params[key])); var s = d.createElement('script');s.type='text/javascript';s.async=true; var p = 'https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https' : 'http'; s.src = p + "://api.content.ad/Scripts/widget2.aspx?" + qs.join('&'); d.getElementById("contentad130998").appendChild(s); })(document); “As it was going down,” the other deputy interjects. “But now, they’re done. They’re done.” Although Sheriff Gualtieri announced at a press conference that his deputies flung off their gun belts and dove into the swamp in a failed attempt to save the teenage girls, police dash cam video actually shows the deputies standing near the shore listening to the girls scream to death. Two hours later, a tow truck pulled out a vehicle containing the deceased bodies of 16-year-old Dominique Battle from St. Petersburg High School, 15-year-old Ashaunti Butler from Dixie Hollins High, and 15-year-old Laniya Miller from Gibbs High. “My daughter was not perfect,” Miller’s mother, Natasha Winkler, recently told ABC Action News through tears. “What 15-year-old is?” Despite the fact that the sheriff initially released false information and his deputies likely provided false reports claiming they tore off their gun belts and dove into the murky water to save the dying teen girls, no criminal charges have been filed against any of the deceitful deputies. Caught on police dash cam video, the deputies clearly falsified their reports after standing around while callously listening to the drowning girls die.
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#4. To: sneakypete (#1)
'They've been arrested seven times in the last year on just auto theft charges,' Gualtieri said. 'These are not good kids. These are kids who are heavily engaged in criminal activity. I didn't make it up. I didn't make it up that at 4 o'clock in the morning they were driving a stolen car.'
"My baby ain't perfect." Also, Laniya Miller's mother is Natasha Winkler. Laniya Miller's father is ... long gone. All that aside, the these aspiring (and unarmed) girls were being chased simply because they were black. This must stop.
ANYBODY and EVERYBODY that raises their hand and takes a oath to protect the public,and then takes "the Kings money" to do so. They did not have to save even one of those girls,but they damn sure had obligation to TRY. BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO! ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
What does one girls rap sheet have to do with anything? Does it mean in your diseased cop-lusting mind that she deserved to die and the cops WHO WERE LEGALLY OBLIGATED TO TRY TO SAVE THEM get a pass? BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO! ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
All true,and not a single word of it frees the cops FROM THEIR SWORN OBLIGATION TO SERVE THE PUBLIC AND TRY TO SAVE LIVES. BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO! ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
So emotional. 'They've been arrested seven times in the last year on just auto theft charges,' Gualtieri said. 'These are not good kids. These are kids who are heavily engaged in criminal activity. I didn't make it up. I didn't make it up that at 4 o'clock in the morning they were driving a stolen car.'
Where did you read that? I didn't see it anywhere,and have been conditioned to expect it and look for it. BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO! ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
Watch out. You should know by now that sarcasm triggers the special snowflakes that post here.
Yes,you are. In fact,so emotional you are completely ignoring the FACTS that none of those cops did the DUTY they had SWORN oaths they would perform,and try to justify it by posting the arrest records of one of the girls. There really is no limit to the depth you are willing to plunge to in order to protect your man crushes,is there? BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO! ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
Put aside your intense feelings for a moment, and quote the supposed oath.
That's what cops are paid to do. Despite the fact that the sheriff initially released false information and his deputies likely provided false reports claiming they tore off their gun belts and dove into the murky water to save the dying teen girls, no criminal charges have been filed against any of the deceitful deputies. Caught on police dash cam video, the deputies clearly falsified their reports after standing around while callously listening to the drowning girls die. Guess you don't have a problem with the cops lying and attempting to portray themselves as "heroes". Figures. Just like the majority of cops, these scumbags showed themselves to be cowards. In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much Next he'll be telling us that during a shootout some cops should help the criminals defend themselves. "They took an oath!"
"They took an oath!" Strawman. Typical. In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much I'm not the cop groupie here,you are. Are you now going to try to claim cops don't take oaths to protect and serve the public? I know you,in your role of Wal-Mart parking lot cop never took such an oath,but I'm talking about real cops. BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO! ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
Ok,Princess,blow away the vapors for a few minutes and tell us where it was reported these girls were shooting at them as the car was sinking. You need to reign in your inner Drama Queen. BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO! ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
Were the victims black or white? Their names sound black.
That's a flat-out lie. At the press conference, "Gualtieri said the doors were closed and the windows were up, so there was no way out. Deputies who had been following shed their gun belts and other equipment and attempted to reach the occupants of the vehicle to try to rescue them. They were unable to reach the car, due to the thick muddy water and the grass growing on the surface of the pond." “Deputies wading out into the water were just sinking (into the muck) and couldn’t get to the car,” the sheriff said."
The carjackers were black. Teens arrest records Dominique M. Battle, 16, had an active warrant for violation of probation – burglary at the time of her death. Other arrests include: • Oct. 30, 2014, burglary to a dwelling Ashaunti N. Butler, 15, also had an active warrant for failure to appear, resisting officer without violence and two counts of petit theft, plus an active pickup order – runaway. Other arrests include: • May 5, 2015, resist officer without violence, retail theft Laniya D. Miller, 15, had only one arrest on her record at the time of her death, a vehicle theft charge on March 16, 2015. trespassing trespassing Laniya D. Miller, 15, had only one arrest on her record at the time of her death, a vehicle theft charge on March 16, 2015.
Black lives matter! I bet they wuz gud grlz, wuz gonna bez doktors, thei luvd jeesus n shit Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. There are no Carthaginian terrorists. President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood "I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
100% agreement here. I'd try my best to save a cat or dog in the water. These young girls... It's criminal.
First off,they were only victims of their own stupidity. If they hadn't stolen a car and tried to outrun the police in a freaking Honda,they wouldn't have gone into the water. Secondly,they were black,which makes no difference at all other than for the deafening silence from the professional black victims profession. I have no doubt some of them will show up soon,though. I guess the elections are keeping them busy visiting graveyards so then can register new voters. BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO! ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
Oh - the dash cam video lied? "... police dash cam video actually shows the deputies standing near the shore listening to the girls scream to death." In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much I watched the video and couldn't see one way or the other. But if they were indeed standing near (not on) the shore, then that confirms their story -- -- "Deputies wading out into the water were just sinking (into the muck) and couldn’t get to the car”
They stood around and did nothing. I watched the video too.
And lied about it on their reports. In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much “Deputies wading out into the water were just sinking (into the muck) and couldn’t get to the car,” the sheriff said." quick gone love If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
But she's too deep into her ongoing estrogen storm to quote it.
Pinellas County oath of office for sheriffs and other county personnel: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support, protect and defend the Constitution and Government of the United States and of the state of Florida; that I am duly qualified to hold office under the Constitution of the State, and that I will well and faithfully perform the duties of [the position] on which I am now about to enter, so help me God." Change your rag.
Drowning victims are just that, regardless of the circumstances leading up to their deaths. Unless they had a Thelma and Louise pact. Then, all bets are off. I can't imagine they were too stupid to figure out how to open a window or door.
Hell, yes. No question. "These young girls..." Yeah. I hear ya. A real toughie.
Nothing in there about sacrificing your life to save some carjacking career criminals following a 4:00 am, no headlights, red-light-running high-speed chase. Good riddance to bad garbage. Thank God they won't be back on the road to kill someone next time.
Whatever duty you assume to exist, there is no legal duty to rescue. http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2094&context=californialawreview Lisa McCabe, Police Officers' Duty to Rescue or Aid: Are They Only Good Samaritans, 72 Cal. L. Rev. 661 (1984). Available at: Conclusion of Law Review paper arguing their should be a duty to rescue.
Emanations from a penumbra, perhaps.
Granted, I was a tad specific.
sneakypete --- I'm talking about real cops. (That are sworn to protect and defend) -- Pinellas County oath of office for sheriffs and other county personnel: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support, protect and defend the Constitution and Government of the United States and of the state of Florida; that I am duly qualified to hold office under the Constitution of the State, and that I will well and faithfully perform the duties of [the position] on which I am now about to enter, so help me God." Faithfully performing duties includes saving lives, -- even the lives of teenie bopper car thieves, you arse hole.
Studies show that car thieves that die stealing a car never steal again. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
As roscoe put it, change your rag, pussieboy.
I ain't the one who's weak pathetic heart bleeds for piece of shit criminal. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
Pinellas County oath of office for sheriffs and other county personnel: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support, protect and defend the Constitution and Government of the United States and of the state of Florida; that I am duly qualified to hold office under the Constitution of the State, and that I will well and faithfully perform the duties of [the position] on which I am now about to enter, so help me God." Change your rag. If that is their oath in full,every one of those porkers should either be fired or forced to take a new oath that requires them to do their damn jobs. If "Officer Safety" is their number 1 concern,they need to stay home like the cowardly punks they are. BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO! ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
People panic,and panicked people will sit right there and keep screaming right up to the point where their lungs fill with water. One of the first car accidents I ever saw happened on Christmas morning when a car with 2 adults and 5 children ran off a bridge in about 20 feet of water,and every damn one of them drowned. My father's car was one of the first ones on the scene and we watched the wrecker winch the car back up out of the water,and there was a dead little girl laying in the parcel shelf by the back window. I can close my eyes and still see her in her white Christmas dress,all dressed up to go to grannie's. I have since fished that area as a commercial fisherman,and there isn't even any mud at the bottom. Just hard packed sand. They should have been able to get out of the car after it flooded,but I guess with 7 people screaming and panicking,they probably got in each other's way trying to get a door open. The car was a brand new 58 Buick,and had electric windows that wouldn't go down after it hit the water. That car sat in a local junkyard for decades,and I would remember that little girl every time I went there to buy parts. BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO! ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
There there is no legal obligation to pay them. BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO! ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latestthere are damn few 15 year old girls that steal cars,go on joy rides,and then try to outrun the cops.
#5. To: Roscoe (#3)
#6. To: misterwhite (#2)
Who wants to strip down and jump into a murky pond, at night, and risk drowning to save the scumbags in the car?
#7. To: Roscoe (#3)
#8. To: Roscoe (#4)
(Edited)
'They've been arrested seven times in the last year on just auto theft charges,' Gualtieri said. 'These are not good kids. These are kids who are heavily engaged in criminal activity. I didn't make it up. I didn't make it up that at 4 o'clock in the morning they were driving a stolen car.'
#9. To: sneakypete (#7)
What does one girls rap sheet have to do with anything?
#10. To: misterwhite (#5)
All that aside, the these aspiring (and unarmed) girls were being chased simply because they were black. This must stop.
#11. To: misterwhite (#5)
All that aside, the these aspiring (and unarmed) girls were being chased simply because they were black. This must stop.
#12. To: Roscoe (#9)
So emotional.
#13. To: sneakypete (#12)
none of those cops did the DUTY they had SWORN oaths they would perform
#14. To: misterwhite (#2)
Who wants to strip down and jump into a murky pond, at night, and risk drowning to save the scumbags in the car?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#15. To: Roscoe (#13)
"Put aside your intense feelings for a moment, and quote the supposed oath."
#16. To: misterwhite (#15)
Next he'll be telling us that during a shootout some cops should help the criminals defend themselves.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#17. To: Roscoe (#13)
Put aside your intense feelings for a moment, and quote the supposed oath.
#18. To: misterwhite (#15)
Next he'll be telling us that during a shootout some cops should help the criminals defend themselves.
#19. To: Deckard (#0)
#20. To: Deckard (#0)
"Although Sheriff Gualtieri announced at a press conference that his deputies flung off their gun belts and dove into the swamp in a failed attempt to save the teenage girls, police dash cam video actually shows the deputies standing near the shore listening to the girls scream to death."
#21. To: Logsplitter, roscoe (#19)
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"Were the victims black or white? Their names sound black."
• Nov. 10, 2014, burglary to a dwelling, resist officer without violence, tsrespassing
• Jan. 16, 2015, vehicle theft, resist officer without violence
• March 16, 2015, vehicle theft
• July 7, 2015, burglary to a dwelling, provide false name to law enforcement< enforcement
• July 25, 2015, violation of probation
• Nov. 22, 2015, vehicle theft, resist officer without violence
• Dec. 15, 2015, possession of marijuana, burglary to a dwelling
• Jan. 8, 2016, vehicle theft
• Nov. 21, 2015, vehicle theft
• Dec. 9, 2015, burglary to a dwelling, burglary to a conveyance
• Jan. 18, 2016, vehicle theft, possession of marijuana, burglary, petit theft theft
• March 29, 2016, violation of probation- trespassing trespassing
#22. To: misterwhite (#5)
#23. To: Deckard (#14)
Just like the majority of cops, these scumbags showed themselves to be cowards.
#24. To: Logsplitter (#19)
Were the victims black or white? Their names sound black.
#25. To: misterwhite (#20)
That's a flat-out lie.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#26. To: Deckard (#25)
"... police dash cam video actually shows the deputies standing near the shore listening to the girls scream to death."
#27. To: misterwhite (#26)
I watched the video and couldn't see one way or the other.
#28. To: Fred Mertz (#27)
They stood around and did nothing.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#29. To: misterwhite (#20)
sand
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liberalism
boris
#30. To: misterwhite, sneakypete (#15)
"They took an oath!"
#31. To: sneakypete (#17)
I'm talking about real cops.
#32. To: sneakypete (#24)
#33. To: Fred Mertz (#23)
"I'd try my best to save a cat or dog in the water."
#34. To: Roscoe (#31)
#35. To: sneakypete, misterwhite (#6)
ANYBODY and EVERYBODY that raises their hand and takes a oath to protect the public,and then takes "the Kings money" to do so. They did not have to save even one of those girls,but they damn sure had obligation to TRY.
http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/californialawreview/vol72/iss4/10 Police officers hold a unique position in society: they are protectors of public safety and at the same time they are governmental employees. This unique role should be acknowledged through a police duty to rescue. Such a duty comports with public expectations of police responsibilities, exposes the police to no undue risk, and requires reasonable affirmative efforts to rescue those in immediate physical danger. The recognition of this professional duty and standard of care is both justified and overdue.
#36. To: misterwhite (#34)
Nothing in there about sacrificing your life to save some carjacking career criminals following a 4:00 am, no headlights, red-light-running high-speed chase
#37. To: Roscoe (#36)
"Emanations from a penumbra, perhaps."
#38. To: Roscoe, change your rag, copsucker (#31)
roscoe --- Change your rag.
#39. To: Deckard (#14)
That's what cops are paid to do.
#40. To: GrandIsland, Y'ALL (#39)
Studies show that car thieves that die stealing a car never steal again.
#41. To: tpaine (#40)
Pussieboy?
#42. To: Roscoe (#31)
I'm talking about real cops.
#43. To: Logsplitter (#32)
I can't imagine they were too stupid to figure out how to open a window or door.
#44. To: nolu chan (#35)
Whatever duty you assume to exist, there is no legal duty to rescue.
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