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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Kentucky Deputy Won't Be Charged In Shooting Death of 19-Year-Old Trying to Leave a Party

Although the portion of the video of the incident that was publicly released (see this May Hit and Run entry) made his story seem improbable—as it seemed to show him approaching her departing car from the side with her front well past him—a grand jury in Boone County, Kentucky, faced with a prosecutor's death investigation evidence concluded that Samantha Ramsey did indeed represent a threat to the life of Deputy Tyler Brockman such that he was justified in shooting her four times from the hood of her car, into a car with three other passengers.

WCPO

Brockman was breaking up a party from which Ramsey and her friends were trying to leave, and he suspected she might be legally impaired. According to the investigator's report, she was, on both alcohol and marijuana.

The forensic report said tire tracks matching the car are on his foot, and that she indeed made a sharp left turn into him and knocked him to the hood of her car, making the shooting justified.

Accounts of the grand jury decision from Cincinnati's WCPO-TV, Cinncinnati.com, and WKRC Local 12 from Cinncinnatti.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

No mention of the big argument she had been in with a young man just prior to the shooting incident.That added heightened emotion which in turn hastened her exit from the scene.No offense,but highly emotional and intoxicated men or women have no business driving.

Anonymous said...

Now had she been other than white the usual race baiters would have been all over this one!

Anonymous said...

Spot on 11:34 AM. But understand race baiters wouldn't exist if bigotry and irrational fear didn't get black people killed for no good reason. Every person has the potential to do harm and commit a crime...every person not just those with melanin.

Anonymous said...

Of course it was a justified shooting. Is there any other kind when it's a kop doing the killing?