------------------------ Fort Lupton, Colorado — Newly released video shows the moment a freight train struck a police patrol vehicle with a 20-year-old woman handcuffed in the back seat. According to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, a Platteville police officer pulled over Maria Rios-Gonzalez in Weld County, near Highway 85 and County Road 38, after an alleged road rage incident involving a gun. Two Fort Lupton police officers later arrived at the scene and placed the Rios-Gonzalez in the back of the Platteville officer’s car, which was illegally parked on railroad tracks.
While the three officers were searching Rios-Gonzalez’s pickup truck, a train horn can be heard blaring. As it gets closer one of the officers realizes the car is on the tracks and begins yelling. CBI said Rios-Gonzalez suffered “serious bodily injuries,” including multiple broken ribs and a fractured sternum. The released video also shows officers searching her vehicle. At one point it's noted that a "round" is found near the driver's side door and a gun holster was found in the vehicle. Just before the video provided to 9NEWS ends, an officer searching the vehicle is heard saying, "there's your gun." The Platteville police officer involved is on administrative leave while an investigation is underway.
If the stupid fuggs had put as much effort into taking care of the woman as they did trying to find a pistol to fit the holster, this could have been avoided.
A lot of people will associate this tragedy with the officer being female.
They may be correct.
Well, there were also plenty of "bubbas" standing around that seemed oblivious to the car being on the tracks until it was too late.
You're right, it was their fault she straddled the RR tracks with a suspect inside.
...any bets as to who'll win the lawsuit ?.
Not their fault that she stopped the car on the tracks but they could have told her to move her car off the tracks. But that doesn't fit your narrative, does it?
Wow! They acted like there was more bad guys in the car. It wasn’t like the gun was gonna run off and hide in the ditch. If the gal was guilty or not of something has nothing to do with stupid. Edk
A lot of people will associate this tragedy with the officer being female.
They may be correct.
Well, there were also plenty of "bubbas" standing around that seemed oblivious to the car being on the tracks until it was too late.
You're right, it was their fault she straddled the RR tracks with a suspect inside.
...any bets as to who'll win the lawsuit ?.
Not their fault that she stopped the car on the tracks but they could have told her to move her car off the tracks. But that doesn't fit your narrative, does it?
SHE stopped the other side of the Crossing Sign, COP stopped on the tracks.................
"...A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box..." Frederick Douglass, 1867
How the hell have they made it this far in life with such a lack of situational awareness? All they gave a [bleep] about was finding a reason to take that person's freedom and liberty.
Not their fault that she stopped the car on the tracks but they could have told her to move her car off the tracks. But that doesn't fit your narrative, does it?
I could be mistaken but seems to me it would be pretty difficult to NOT realize you had parked on the railroad track.. Also seems to me when you see a railroad track it is safe to assume a train might use that track. It was placed there for a reason and railroad tracks are expensive to build so they use them over and over.
