[Peace-discuss] interaction with Champaign police / driver didall the wrong things

[E.Wayne Johnson]

Seems to me that Champaign is a dangerous place.

Can't imagine why people want to live there.  Perhaps they dont but can't 
get out?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karen Medina" <kmedina67 at gmail.com>
To: "Peace-discuss List" <Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 3:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] interaction with Champaign police / driver 
didall the wrong things


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