"Howard County Police Chief William McMahon says they are disappointed by the decision. In a news conference Thursday afternoon he told reporters, “We are confident she was going 71 miles per hour in a 55 mile per hour zone. As she approached Scott she did see him and move and took some evasive action perhaps to not strike him. But I will tell you this, other drivers who were on the roadway that day, including those that were behind her, saw the officer and was able to react."
http://wjz.com/local/scott.wheeler.p...ectflash=false
http://www.co.ho.md.us/Police/pd_wheeler.htm

Oh, weird - the Police Chief disagrees? Fancy that. Seriously? That's the best we can do? "Other people didn't kill the guy, so she must have been out of control!" Come on - that's absolute nonsense, and just a severe mangling of any sort of logical thinking.

Speeding is an easy way to generate a civil case based on negligence, so it's likely she'll wind up in a court with a lower burden - so never fear. Still, this is absolutely, 100% NOT a civil rights issue like the comparisons you're making.

I never made, in this thread, any comparisons.
I did mention track records/histories.

20 miles per hour over limit.....

"Mentioning track records" is analogous to "comparing" because you're saying "in the past, this has happened" then openly wondering why it isn't happening now. That's, literally, a "comparison" - I'm just saying.

I don't get why you're running from that issue - just make the point and the thread will actually have some legs, don't you think?

Sixteen. And a grand jury that chose not to indict, despite knowing this fact.

I agree with this, and I wish we thought of it more.

I understand why family and friends sometimes want to blame people, but it's probably important to remember for criminal stuff especially. (I'd even want people to remember it for civil cases, but that's probably so counter to our culture these days that it would never happen. I understand that liability is going to be different though.)

I'm sort of surprised that going 16 over doesn't seem negligent, but maybe there's a precedent or guideline of some kind or maybe there was testimony about how given the limited amount of time she had to react that her speed wasn't much of as issue in his death. This is probably sick the way I'm expressing it and I apologize, but even at 55, depending on when he walked out, he'd have been just as dead.