The officer was previously disciplined 4 times for other driving offenses, but killing someone - well - $35.50 oughta cover it.
If you want to get away with murder in the USA, use a car to kill your victim.
Bonus: make sure they’re on a bicycle.
$35.50. Just remember this amount. This is the amount a human life is worth in this fucked up country of ours.
After the crash, Hartup issued a statement saying that as he was completing a turn at an intersection, “I struck a pedestrian. I immediately stopped my vehicle, grabbed my radio, and started aid to the pedestrian, and called dispatch to send medics.”
It gets a little harder to hate the driver when you find out that they did everything after the crash right. Guy still deserves jail time for fucking up driving again so badly that he ended someone’s life about it, but I’m not about to call for violence against him. Stopping and calling for help immediately is exactly what you should do if you hit a person.
$35.50 is an absolute insult to the victim, though. I hope it’s hard to cope with taking a life knowing that you’ve only paid the equivalent of a tank of gas for it.
I assume he is lying unless there is video evidence that he did any of those things immediately.
