Title: Sheriff Hailed Cops as Heroes, But Dashcam Shows them Listen to 3 Girls Scream as they Drowned Source:
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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.”
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“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.
Were the victims black or white? Their names sound black.
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.
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.
I can't imagine they were too stupid to figure out how to open a window or door.
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.
