WNDWASHINGTON – An attorney for the family of Miriam Carey, 34, the Connecticut woman shot and killed by Secret Service and Capitol Police after she apparently made a wrong turn into a White House checkpoint and then tried to flee, says the idea that the officers will not face criminal charges is not surprising.
Nor does it change the family’s legal position in their wrongful death claim, Eric Sanders, who is based in New York, told WND on Thursday.
He has a telephone conference call scheduled later Thursday with authorities to discuss the next step in the investigation into Carey’s death.
The 34-year-old mother from Stamford, Connecticut, was shot five times, once in the head, three times in the back and once in the arm, in the confrontation with authorities in Washington. The bullets all missed her 14-month-old child, who was in the back seat of her vehicle as officers repeatedly fired at it.
The National Journal reported, quoting unnamed sources, that the Justice Department will decline to press criminal charges against the Secret Service and Capitol Police officers who shot and killed Carey on Oct. 3, 2013.
The federal review has been under way since the shooting by two uniformed Secret Service officers, who remained on duty, and the two Capitol Police officers, who have been on administrative leave.
The Journal reported Justice Department officials want to discuss their decision with the Carey family before making their announcement.
Sanders told WND, “I’m sure the family is going to be upset. It’s criminal conduct.”
He added that it’s “very rare” for a law enforcement officer to be charged criminally, but none of those decisions changes the family’s position in the case.
“It doesn’t change our legal position,” he said.
Also expected, along with the decision about the charges, is a report on the federal investigators’ perspective on the shooting of Carey.
Sanders already has filed a preliminary wrongful-death claim against the federal government and the two law enforcement agencies that were involved, explaining that arguments the officers made instant decisions about firing their guns at the woman don’t really apply since evidence that the officers were defending themselves is absent.
According to the Journal, Sanders contends the officers just “panicked,” broke their own operating rules and standards, and fired on a moving vehicle.
It happened when Carey apparently made a wrong turn, but refused to stop, instead trying to flee.
Reports say police have claimed in federal court that police started chasing her near the White House after Carey drove over a bicycle rack that Secret Service officers placed in front of her car. She reportedly knocked an officer to the ground, then sped toward Capitol Hill.
Police apparently fired several times on the moving vehicle carrying Carey and her daughter.
WND reported earlier on the $75 million dollar lawsuit the family is bringing against the U.S. government, blaming the uniformed division of the U.S. Secret Service and the U.S. Capitol Police for “numerous intentional, grossly negligent and reckless actions of police officers, supervisors, managers and other related employees.”
Authorities first called Carey a terrorist threat, and when she turned out to be an unarmed suburban mother, they said she was on drugs. Then no drugs were found in her system.
It was a report from Dr. Nikki Mourtzinos of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for the District of Columbia that revealed Carey was shot repeatedly in the back.
The video below shows officers fired at least seven shots at Carey in a crowded public space after they inexplicably failed to block her car at the traffic circle.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/07/report-no-charges-for-cops-who-killed-miriam-carey/#KlepjuZKL4VmProS.99
Should we be surprised in the District of Criminals?
maybe some one in her family had a 100 heads life and casualty insurance policy ..time will tell
It was an Execution…. And of course … They can do as they wish… And Never suffer any repercussions at all !!