Multiple sources are reporting that police in Menifee responded to a report of a burglary in progress on the 27000 block of Hemingway Court around 4:54 pm Monday.
A car driven by a woman believed to be involved in the burglary was seen leaving the area, and fled when the cops attempted to pull her over.
The driver was headed west on Holland Road at a high rate of speed when she ran the red light at Holland and Evans Road, striking the boy, who was riding north on Evans Road.
The victim, identified as 13-year-old Menifee resident Cody Villatoro, died at the scene, despite the efforts of police and paramedics.
The driver continued to flee until her car became disabled, at which point police arrested the woman, 21-year old Temecula resident Melody Valdez, on suspicion of evading police and homicide, among other charges.
So let’s repeat. Villatoro was riding with the green light, and apparently did nothing wrong other than share the planet with a driver wanted by police for a nonviolent property crime. But now he’s dead, because of a driver’s bad decision to flee and the cops’ choice to continue the chase.
I don’t get it, USA has flock, helicopter and probably drones to chase a car from a safe distance and arrest them when it’s safe yet they chose to do these reckless chases?
It’s fun for them.
They’re excellent for tv ratings!
Also justifies all that homeland security money they love.
Is this an argument supporting flock cameras and police drones?
You could employ it as such, but it wasn’t presented as such.
Can’t wait for all the media reports on how dangerous e-bikes are and calls from our leaders to ban them.
Collisions during car chases is the #1 way that law enforcement officers die in the line of duty.
Turns out it’s not bank robbers with Tommy guns.
We can’t let criminals get away. /s
Fuck her
And the cops. There was no need to engage in a high speed chase here.
There’s almost never cause for a high-speed chase.
Fuck the police. They know or should know this could happen.
Lmfao the cops didn’t hit the kid, it was the stupid theiving bitch. Hope she lives a fucking life of misery. Being she’s in LA she’ll end up on the street. THAT’S WHY WE THROW SHIT AT THESE DISGUSTING HOMELESS WASTE. THEY ARE EVIL
The police created the situation by chasing her. Yeah she has the direct responsibility but our institutions should be held to a higher standard than random individuals. A lot of PDs are now creating policies to not do high speed chases for this exact reason. But I guess either LAPD doesn’t have such a policy or they didn’t follow it.
So I say fuck 'em both.
Also dehumanizing the homeless is evil. This person wasn’t even homeless so I have no idea why you even brought that up. I guess some prejudice is too strong to confine just to relevant circumstances.
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Americans need to be resocialized and pulled back from the medieval times
Edit: why do these people delete their comments? Why not stay behind this large opinion?
Yep. They’re mechanized horse riding barbarians.
Its kinda ironic how they became the real savages in North America
I am sure they sided with the cops or the lady right?
They called out for the lady to be executed by the state.
Why is that a bad thing? She viciously killed a child and kept driving. Oh that’s right, you protect predators. Keep living on your high horse. 😂😂
See you don’t know anything about the woman, its not like she murdered the kid. It was an accident induced by the police chase even though they have high tech bullshit to follow up on her.
Its not up to the judge to just fucking kill a person, most of the time there are some underlying psychological or in this case maybe systemic issues that can be solved. Resocialising the people and turning them into active tax payers makes more sense in the long run.
The accident was induced by the police? NO THE ACCIDENT WAS INDUCED BY HER FLEEING AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED WITH TOTAL DISREGARD FOR SAFETY. AFTER SHE HIT THE KID SHE DRAGGED HIS BODY AND KEPT ON GOING LIKE A FUCKING DEMON!
SO YEA I’LL POST A FUCKING COMMENT THAT SHE SHOULD BE KILLED. FUCKING EVIL PEOPLE
If she would not have been chased through the street with a car but instead tracked otherwise, she would have probably not flewn through the streets herself.
In the end there was no psychological evaluation either. What happens when an american hero, a fucking war vet gets a trauma induced psychosis, cops want to take him in, he chases off, the same thing happens. Are you saying they should put him to death instead of treating him?
