A woman is dead following a “tragic chain of events” that began with a bomb threat against Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene at her Rome home, police said.
On the way to the headquarters in their personal vehicle, a Rome Police sergeant and bomb squad member collided with another vehicle driven by 66-year-old Tammie Pickelsimer.
A Georgia State Patrol spokesperson said the traffic incident is still under investigation, but according to the initial findings, Pickelsimer’s 2002 Mazda Protege pulled out of a Rome parking lot into the path of the officer’s 2015 GMC Sierra truck. The officer applied the brakes but the truck struck the Mazda near the driver’s side front door. Pickelsimer was taken to a hospital where she died from her injuries. The officer suffered minor injuries and has been released from the hospital
- clickbait. The lady was not associated with or even anywhere near the purported bomb.
2)…wanna bet the cop was driving at a high rate of speed, in a vehicle without lights and sirens?
2)…wanna bet the cop was driving at a high rate of speed, in a vehicle without lights and sirens?
I wouldn’t bet against it but I’ve had the same thing happen. Buddy was driving and it was a bright sunny summer afternoon. We were doing all of 30MPH and an old lady pulled out onto the road maybe 20’ in front of us. The Samurai we were in was totaled and so was her Buick. She didn’t die but she did spend a couple of days in hospital. I bounced my head off the windshield so hard I was knocked out and I bent the passenger door out a good 4" with my right arm / elbow. My buddy was also knocked out from banging his head off the windshield even with his seatbelt on. That can happen when your vehicle is suddenly gets 18" shorter.
I’m not defending the cop but sometimes drivers just do dumb shit, especially older ones.
Sure. Stuff happens.
But given the urgency in the cop… I have to assume he was rather more than somewhat at fault.
Also a good reason why driving a giant vehicle like a GMC Sierra that smashes anything it touches shouldn’t be free. A higher vehicle tax on something like that would be appropriate, instead they get higher tax write-offs and lower emissions and safety standards.
And probably distracted using his laptop.
The officer applied the brakes
Of course they applied their brakes, just like they “fear for their life” or “told the citizen to comply” while beating their brains out - they just make up whatever fanciful lies they can to escape the justice they purport to represent.
Personal vehicle: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/12/10/marjorie-taylor-greene-bomb-threat-car-crash/76884681007/
I’m sure it’ll come out later that he was speeding.
Sometimes, cops that are frequently on call are allowed to install lights or sirens on personal cars so they can get into their station quickly.
Bombsquad calls are less frequent but generally urgent.
In any case, I would suggest he was driving like he had lights and sirens, despite not having them. Which makes it incredibly unsafe to do, and places blame squarely on the cop. (Though the article made sure to mention she pulled into his way.)
wanna bet the cop was driving at a high rate of speed, in a vehicle without lights and sirens?
Only if you’re giving like +1500, then I might bet like $10
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When cat photos are exchanged we all win.
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I’d argue it isnt clickbait and is a fairly accurate title. Motorist killed as police respond. The motorist was hit while the police were responding. The title never claimed the motorist had anything to do with the bomb threat, that was the context for the police response. Typically when the headline is refering to someone involved with the crime, they use the term suspect. The fact they used motorist actually gave me a hint it was an unassociated party that was hit.
Where do you get they were responding? This says they were heading to headquarters in a personal vehicle. They’re not rushing to the scene of anything here.
They were called in for a bomb threat (as bombsquads usually are,) but had to report to the station first.
so they were “responding” to the bomb threat, but had to go gear up before actually heading out. So it’s fair to say they were “responding”, particularly since highly specialized cops like bomb techs only catch certain kinds of calls, and other cops stay the hell away from them.
Exactly, so not rushing to the scene of the crime , but going to change clothes. If their expertise was needed immediately they would have headed right to the scene, and if equipment was needed it would have met them there. Of course it’s all moot because if you actually read the article, you’d see that the bomb threat was made on Friday, and this happened on the following Monday. So tell me again what they’re responding to? Tell me again why he had to kill this woman? Did this even have anything to do with the bomb threat or are they just using it as an excuse when they really just killed a woman?
It including that it was to a bomb threat towards green implies an untrue association.
Was the title technically accurate? Yes. Is it still click bait? I’d say yes. Cops kill people responding to (and no where near,) calls with a startling regularity.
Some cop got up and yehawwed through traffic without the usual aids to make it safe. It happens. It’s almost never reported.
I wouldn’t concede the technically accurate part myself. That second paragraph really throws that into doubt.
The only way it’s misleading is in the usual refusal to acknowledge that the police killed this innocent person. It’s always the same passive voice, as if people keep magically dropping dead when the police happen to be around.
What kind of dillweed makes a bomb threat with no demands attached? That’s some real amateur hour stupidity, right there, unless there was a demand and it just wasn’t disclosed. 'Cause otherwise, there’s no point.
Law enforcement is going to get the target the hell out of the area and then find the bomb you just told them about, or not if there was in fact no bomb (which seems to be the case here), so either way your presumptive target is not going to get got no matter how you slice it.
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
I’d watch MTG burn.
You left out the best part:
According to Rome police, the department received an email listing Greene’s home address and saying a pipe bomb had been placed in her mailbox shortly after 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 6. The email initially went to a junk folder and was not seen until Monday at about 9:30 a.m.
I also filter email from Matt Gaetz to Junk.
Why is Matt Gaetz emailing you? Are you a high school girl?
They might be. lemmy.world rules require someone be 18+, though I doubt he’d go after a senior.
And rather than the journalists saying “three days old” and giving exact dates, it’s just “Monday”
It was opened at 9:30 on December 9th. It sat in the junk folder all weekend, the police found it, and a police officer driving a personal truck killed someone
“Look what you made me do!”
Seems like it would’ve been better to call Marjorie to tell her not to open her mailbox instead of rushing to the house at speed.
They weren’t rushing to the house at speed. The accident occurred when an officer was driving his personal vehicle to the department so that he could get ready to respond to the situation.
The lady who died pulled out from a parking lot in front of him, and got t-boned on the driver side.
Well, that seems like a non-department-related accident. My employer isn’t responsible if I get in an accident on my way to work, not sure why that would be different here.
you’re not a pig though, no special rules for you
He will get disability paid for by taxes, for the ptsd from killing someone in a attempt to get some sweet fundme dark money by saving their princess of horseshit
Operation save the mutant. Smh
Yeah, the cop was definitely speeding though.
Obviously the bomb was waiting for read receipt before arming, duh.
so the spam filters worked.
Foreign agents getting the police to kill us, one by one.
Of course the police take zero responsibility. Their accounting of the events includes apply the brakes a piece of information that sounds sus.
Yea of a car pulls out in front of a citizen that might have been going 1mph over the limit and slams on the breaks but the person who pulled out dies the driver that was “speeding” 100% will be charged.
