Bettersten Wade’s search for her adult son ended when she discovered that an officer had run him over — and without telling her, authorities buried him in a pauper’s field.

  • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    How about vehicular homicide? How about falsification of police records? How about impeding the cause of an investigation? I’m not even a lawyer or even passed the bar and those charges immediately come to mind.

    • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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      2 years ago

      Hitting a man crossing a six lane highway in the dark is not automatically vehicular homicide. Sometimes the pedestrian is at fault when a car hits a pedestrian, and this appears to be one of those times. It isn’t literally impossible that the driver was drunk or going twice the speed limit and the cops covered it up, but assuming that something like that happened without any evidence is unreasonable even when the driver was a cop.