Miriam Carey ID'd As Woman Shot By Police Near Capitol
Miriam Carey Identified As Woman Shot By Police Near Capitol
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/1...n_4040115.html
From article:
Law enforcement officers have confirmed the identity of the woman shot by police outside the Capitol building on Thursday.
The woman who attempted to drive through White House barriers and set off a Capitol Hill police chase was identified as 34-year-old Miriam Carey of Stamford, Conn.
According to ABC News, Carey had a history of mental health issues and suffered from post-partum depression.
The suspect's sister, Amy Carey, was in disbelief when she told The Washington Post, “That’s impossible. She works, she holds a job."
Miriam Carey has been identified by authorities as a dental hygienist in Connecticut.
Former boss Dr. Barry J. Weiss told The New York Times that he and his partner fired Miriam Carey from their periodontics practice last year and cited her "temper" but would not go into detail.
The Times describes the final moments before Carey was killed:Ms. Carey managed to get out of the car, and was shot by several officers. According to a law enforcement official, she was not armed, and it was not known whether she presented an immediate danger.
More from the Associated Press:
WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON [[AP) — A woman with a year-old child led Secret Service and police on a harrowing car chase from the White House past the Capitol Thursday, attempting to penetrate the security barriers at both national landmarks before she was shot to death, police said. The child survived.
Astonishing Silence Greets Shooting Death of Miriam Carey at Capitol
Astonishing Silence Greets Shooting Death of Miriam Carey by Police at Capitol
By R. EMMETT TYRRELL, Jr., Special to the Sun | October 9, 2013
From article:
I am just wondering if Miriam Carey, the mentally ill mother who drove her black Infiniti down Pennsylvania Avenue after she rammed a White House barricade, was read her Miranda rights before she was shot dead in a fusillade of gunfire by a gang of well-armed police who surrounded her car at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. The information has not been released, though as I write almost a week has passed since the lethal event.
Why could not those crack shots have aimed at her car’s tires. Then they could have waited for her next move. It looks to me like they were shooting at the side of the car about half way up the door. They apparently wanted to take no chances.
I guess they worried that she had some powerful explosives in the car. Yet what could Miss Carey have had that was so dangerous to them? She was still a couple of blocks from the Capitol. Did they fear dynamite? Could she have had a nuclear devise? Neither was very likely. We now know that she had only her year-old child. The child was not hurt.
Thus far there has been an astonishing silence surrounding the death Miss Carey. None of the usual complainants against police violence have been heard from—not the Rev. Jesse Jackson nor the Rev. Al Sharpton. Not even the NAACP or the ACLU. Nor for that matter have the hordes of defenders of Trayvon Martin been heard from.
The only voices of protest have come from the Washington Times editorial board and from two writers at the American Spectator—now there are three. This strikes me as exceedingly strange. Are we going to forego a scrupulous investigation? How long will the conspiracy of silence last? Is the entire country going to participate in it?
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