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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Karen Medina <kmedina67@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Peace-discuss List <Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Sat, July 17, 2010 2:43:25 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Peace-discuss] interaction with Champaign police / driver did all the wrong things<BR></FONT><BR>John W., that would be the police's assumption as well.<BR><BR>I am not saying the bad driver was innocent of anything. But I am<BR>saying that acting so suspiciously is a stupid thing to do.<BR><BR>Also, if you are going to drive on a suspended license, then drive<BR>extremely carefully.<BR><BR>-karen medina<BR><BR>On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:22 PM, John W. <<A href="mailto:jbw292002@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:jbw292002@gmail.com">jbw292002@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR>> You don't say it outright here,
Karen, but it's pretty clear to me that the<BR>> occupants of the car had drugs or other contraband in the car which they<BR>> were trying to dispose of. And I imagine that they were arrested primarily<BR>> for possession of said contraband, with the accident and reckless driving<BR>> probably tacked on for good measure. I'm sure they were also going to be<BR>> tested at the police station for drugs and maybe booze, which would make it<BR>> a DWI as well.<BR>><BR>> John<BR>><BR>> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Karen Medina <<A href="mailto:kmedina67@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:kmedina67@gmail.com">kmedina67@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR>><BR>>><BR>>> Peace-discuss,<BR>>><BR>>> I read David Green's experience with the wild car and the police not<BR>>> even feigning interest.<BR>>><BR>>> I had an interesting experience this morning on my way to work the<BR>>>
AWARE table at the Farmer's Market.<BR>>><BR>>> Windsor and S. First St., Champaign (I was going to pick up tee-shirts<BR>>> at Stuart Levy's house).<BR>>><BR>>> The event would have been a great scenario for the movies on what not<BR>>> to do when during a police interaction.<BR>>><BR>>> A car wanting to turn right whizzed by on the right of a line of<BR>>> vehicles stopped at the traffic light. The car used the bicycle lane<BR>>> as if it were a right turn lane (which it is not wide enough to do).<BR>>> The car turned right without stopping. Just as the car made it to the<BR>>> curve, the traffic light turned green and the line began to move. The<BR>>> first vehicle in the line was also turning right, but it was a fire<BR>>> truck tanker and had not seen or heard the car pulling along side it,<BR>>> nor had the fast moving car noticed that the light had changed
and<BR>>> that the fire truck was going to turn right too. The fire truck and<BR>>> the car clipped each other. The car's back bumper fell to the ground.<BR>>> The car did stop briefly.<BR>>><BR>>> That was stupid driving, but the next part was absolutely the wrong<BR>>> thing to do.<BR>>><BR>>> Rather than remain stopped where traffic could still get around it,<BR>>> the car driver drove down the road and turned left into the drive for<BR>>> the apartments. It turned around in the parking lot and stopped by the<BR>>> dumpster. Then the people in the car got out and were walking around<BR>>> rearanging stuff in the car and visiting the dumpster. The police<BR>>> arrived very quickly. There were three Champaign police cars within a<BR>>> quarter mile of that corner, watching traffic. None of them were close<BR>>> enough to see event at the corner, but were close
enough to come<BR>>> almost immediately.<BR>>><BR>>> The police did let the fire truck people that the car driver was<BR>>> driving on a suspended license. This was wrong of them to do.<BR>>><BR>>> There were 4 officers talking to the car driver.<BR>>><BR>>> I watched them handcuff the driver of the car.<BR>>><BR>>> One policeman took my statement, but kept trying to put words in my<BR>>> mouth. I was the car immediately behind the fire truck in the line of<BR>>> the waiting cars. I had the best view of the event, and could see that<BR>>> the fire truck and the car were going to collide before they did.<BR>>> Neither of the drivers involved even saw the other vehicle before they<BR>>> collided.<BR>>><BR>>> It was an interesting experience.<BR>>><BR>>> -karen medina<BR><BR><BR><BR>-- <BR>karen medina<BR><~~~~~~~~~~~~~><BR>"In this
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