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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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Free Thought Project
URL Source: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/da ... cops-lied-save-drowning-teens/
Published: Apr 20, 2016
Author: Andrew Emett
Post Date: 2016-04-20 09:40:32 by Deckard
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Views: 15156
Comments: 68
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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#2. To: Deckard (#0)
Stolen car, fleeing the police (placing both civilian lives and the lives of police officers at risk), running a red light at night with no deadlights. OK. Show of hands. Who wants to strip down and jump into a murky pond, at night, and risk drowning to save the scumbags in the car?
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?
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.'
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?
Put aside your intense feelings for a moment, and quote the supposed oath.
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.
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.
#34. To: Roscoe (#31)
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.
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.
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.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest"Several hours later, deputies reported seeing the Honda run a red light without its headlights on during a pursuit."
#3. To: misterwhite (#2)
#7. To: Roscoe (#3)
#9. To: sneakypete (#7)
What does one girls rap sheet have to do with anything?
#12. To: Roscoe (#9)
So emotional.
#13. To: sneakypete (#12)
none of those cops did the DUTY they had SWORN oaths they would perform
#17. To: Roscoe (#13)
Put aside your intense feelings for a moment, and quote the supposed oath.
#31. To: sneakypete (#17)
I'm talking about real cops.
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#38. To: Roscoe, change your rag, copsucker (#31)
roscoe --- Change your rag.
#42. To: Roscoe (#31)
I'm talking about real cops.
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