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If you don't want to get run over by angry citizens, don't commit crimes against citizens. Too many have gone soft in the head towards criminals.
Exactly! The criminal scum-bags are taking over this country, and in many cases you can't do anything to protect your person - or risk getting in trouble yourself. It's a sad state of affairs, and it makes me sick.
I wonder if she just went fully in to fight or flight. I was going through a difficult time and was alone in a city far from home with my toddler daughter. A guy tried to pick pocket me. I was able to thwart it, but I went off at him when I thought he got my wallet. I am not sure I wouldn't have tried to run him over. It was all I had...it was pure survival. Looking back, I was foolish to confront him...a criminal in an empty street with a baby on my hip. But I was just...working on instinct.
If that is her case...I think it should be factored in. Her purse might have had all the money she has for the month and she just went into survival mode.
If she was calculating and wanted to "get justice" I think she needs to be fully prosecuted.
Calculating? She didn't go home and think about it.... she was in the moment. This whole event took moments. And she said herself, she wasn't trying to hurt him, she was trying to stop him, so he didn't get away with it. Fair enough!
She's one of those people who aren't too fearful or lazy to act to defend what's right and battle what's wrong. She's the kind of citizen we need more of.
Not guilty.
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Anyone who acts to stop the commission of a crime and apprehend a criminal should be immune from prosecution and liability.
In pursuit of a felon. She should get a reward. What is wrong with people, this scum is a chronic criminal.
If he gets jail time instead of winning a lawsuit and having a bunch of "do-gooders" boo hoo all over him, he will probably think twice about his felonious lifestyle.
She can use the "baby defense." I was protecting my child! Even if the kid is charged, his record will be sealed or expunged by the time he's 18.
I agree she overreacted. However, I don't think she should be charged with anything more serious than the would-be thief. I hope this doesn't open the door for the real criminal in the scenario to turn himself into the victim and file a lawsuit.
My hope is that she either makes a deal and pleads guilty to a misdemeanor with a small fine, or is found not guilty by a jury of her peers. I'm not in favor of a vigilante society, but I get tired of the notion that innocent citizens are supposed to do absolutely nothing but call the police and hope they show up while a crime is committed against them.
Felon WILL file a lawsuit. Some slimebag ambulance-chasing lawyer has already visited this poor victim in the hospital/jail.
Our society has bent over backwards for criminals. He was fleeing, she was attempting to stop a fleeing felon. Where is her $1000 reward?
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In pursuit of a felon. She should get a reward. What is wrong with people, this scum is a chronic criminal.
If he gets jail time instead of winning a lawsuit and having a bunch of "do-gooders" boo hoo all over him, he will probably think twice about his felonious lifestyle.
She can use the "baby defense." I was protecting my child! Even if the kid is charged, his record will be sealed or expunged by the time he's 18.
It's all good.
She pursued this man on foot, who had dropped her purse by her car and run, and then she gave up running him down on foot and then chased him with her car so she could run over him and thus immobilize him. She was in fact placing her unborn child in harm's way during this time in my opinion. She could easily have been in another wreck or driven over an innocent pedestrian in her reckless desire to run over this man who had rifled through her purse.
What would have happened had she caught up to him on foot, as she intended to do initially? Gads.
There was not a thought in her head, IMHO, to protect her baby. She was all about rage and not one thought about the baby she is carrying.
I'm not as concerned about his purse snatcher as I am about her unborn baby - her response was, in my opinion, dangerous and even bizarre.
The thief dropped, I repeat, DROPPED the woman's personal belongings (sorry for those arguing about identity theft and all, absolutely irrelevant here), yet she chose to continue to engage in some dirty harry fantasy tactics, didn't give up the foot chase but gets in vehicle and tries to mow the person down. Not only endangering herself and her baby, but others around her.
She pursued this man on foot, who had dropped her purse by her car and run, and then she gave up running him down on foot and then chased him with her car so she could run over him and thus immobilize him. She was in fact placing her unborn child in harm's way during this time in my opinion. She could easily have been in another wreck or driven over an innocent pedestrian in her reckless desire to run over this man who had rifled through her purse.
What would have happened had she caught up to him on foot, as she intended to do initially? Gads.
There was not a thought in her head, IMHO, to protect her baby. She was all about rage and not one thought about the baby she is carrying.
I'm not as concerned about his purse snatcher as I am about her unborn baby - her response was, in my opinion, dangerous and even bizarre.
Not only her unborn baby but any pedestrians who may have been passing by when she ran over the curb. A car is not a weapon and should not be used as such.
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She should get a reward. What is wrong with people, this scum is a chronic criminal. 
boo hoo all over him, he will probably think twice about his felonious lifestyle.
