THE KILLING OF MIRIAM CAREY: ANOTHER RACIALLY-PROFILED MURDER BY POLICE; THIS TIME IT OCCURRED IN THE BACKYARD OF THE PRESIDENT AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL; BUT, DON'T EXPECT MUCH FROM THEM, OTHER THAN SPEECHES (IF THAT); IF THIS WAS A STATE CRIME, IT WOULD BE FIRST DEGREE MURDER .

Los Angeles, California



October 15, 2013



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***This blog is submitted as part of the War on Racial Discrimination (WRD) in America, and it is dedicated to Miriam Carey and the Carey family especially, and also to Chris Dorner, Aaron Alexis, Trayvon Martin, and Oscar Grant.



Several days ago Miriam Carey was shot to death by police (or secret service agents--term "police" will apply to all officers, including secret service agents, Capitol police, or D.C. police, or police who took part in the killing or who were in any way associated with the killing on the day of the killing), after leading police on a short police chase in her automobile after having run into a White House barricade. It is unknown why or what caused Ms. Carey to run into the barricade, and now that she's dead, we will never know.

The mass-media have already started with their clean-up efforts: discuss the mental history record of Ms. Carey, including a purported obsession that she had with President Obama. Then, discuss the problems she may have had with past employers or landlords (she apparently has no criminal record, i.e., convictions, so they can't go there), and finally, question why she didn't stop immediately after running into the White House barricade. Further, the government thereafter conducted a thorough search of Ms. Carey's residence to try and recover more evidence; but, nothing they can recover at her residence is going to provide justification for killing her at the scene of the murder. Because even if they find that she was a paid assassinator or killer, with an assortment of weapons, it would not excuse or justify the police handling of the incident in Washington, because the police would not have known those facts at the time that they killed Ms. Carey. Therefore, all of the clean-up efforts are submitted with the intent of steering the public away from the real issue : police misconduct.


But, here's what I know, or believe from the news reports that I am aware of, and why I believe what happen to Ms. Carey was nothing more than another racially-profiled murder of a black citizen:

1. Ms. Carey is a Black American. The mass media, in their news reports, especially the print media, specifically avoided informing the public that Ms. Carey is Black (although some television stations did display a picture of her, whereby you could ascertain that she was black). As if it makes no difference, or as if race in America makes no difference. Race or color in America does make a difference, and it is that difference that caused Ms. Carey to be killed or die.

2. Ms. Carey apparently was not violating any laws prior to the police chase (where she failed to stop and obey police officers). And this includes her running into the police barricade. At most, she would have been civilly liable for any damage to the barricade, but, at this time there is no proof that the barricade was damaged by her collision.

3. There is no evidence that Ms. Carey's collision with the barricade was not an accident. And now that she's dead, we will never know if it was an accident or not. And, because she's dead and cannot tell her side of the story, we (the public) have the right to assume that it was an accident (and there's no proof that it was not).
The public is not required to accept the government's version of the incident that Carey "rammed" the barrier, as opposed to simply running into the barrier.

4. Ms. Carey had her one-year old daughter in the car with her at the time of the collision and the murder. If she had bad intentions, or intentions that she believed might place her life in danger, would she have left her daughter in the car with her? I think not.

5. Ms. Carey only began to run from police when she became frightened from the police drawing weapons on her and her daughter. She likely did not know why the police felt a need to draw weapons because she did not believe she had done anything wrong, or at least anything that would provoke a drawing of weapons. So, when she saw all the police with weapons drawn, she panicked, and fled (likely in an attempt to protect both herself and her daughter).

6. After Ms. Carey finally stopped, after apparently colliding with an object on the sidewalk, she did not exit the car with a weapon (and she had not displayed a weapon before or during the chase). So, why did the police (or secret service officers--one report says that it was secret service officers in pursuit, but, the same thing would apply if it was them) have to shoot her? Why couldn't they just apprehend her or at least give her a chance to surrender? ANS: Because she was Black (and because of the assumptions and conclusions drawn about black people--race or skin color--in this country ). If Ms. Carey would have been white, does anyone truly believe she would have been slaughtered the way she was (thusfar, I am not aware of how many bullets were used to kill her, but because it has not been revealed, you can bet there were several bullets used to kill her)? With a white child in the car? Please! Does anyone with an ounce of common sense and reality in America believe that a white woman with a white child in the car would have been murdered by white (or black) police officers simply because she ran into a White House barrier and refused to stop in a short car chase?

7. The police had no justification for drawing their weapons in the first place, even after Ms. Carey's collision with the barricade. Since there were several police officers (as opposed to only one--but one should not have acted that way either without more evidence of a threat to safety), so they could have simply surrounded the car and ordered Ms. Carey out of the car, without guns drawn. And, without guns drawn, she likely would have obeyed them, especially with her daughter in the car.

8. Ms. Carey was apparently shot after she exited the car (and this I perceived from a picture of the car after it had careened off the road, with the driver's side door opened--there was no signs of bullet holes on the car or windows shattered by bullets)(also there were no signs of damage to the front of the car--that may have come from a major collision with the barrier. Ms. Carey didn't have a chance. It was the same as hunting an animal, and killing it at the first opportunity to do so. The only positive thing about the scenario was that the the baby was protected. They allowed Ms. Carey to get further enough away from the car so that the baby was not harmed. The mass media broadcast that "they were taking the baby to safety" (after "they" had killed her mother). Safety from "who"? The Police?


9. The fact that the incident took place around or near the White House made no difference as to the approach of the police because they know that American citizens are the predominant group utilizing the facilities around the White House, therefore, they are required to respect the rights of U.S. citizens (unless there is some real and observable threat) before adopting some notion of a foreign threat, if such a notion arose, and reducing the constitutional rights of citizens and taking a person's life. Even with heightened scrutiny around the White House, it does not excuse racial profiling.


These are just some of the facts, notions, or inferences (and some of the information I saw firsthand from the video that was shown of parts of the incident) that I believe leads to the conclusion that the Capitol Police, or whatever police (e.g., secret service officers) did the shooting, conducted a racially-profiled murder of Ms. Carey. From the time the police first recognized that Ms. Carey was black, they operated differently towards her than they would have if she was white. They assumed that her collision with the barricade was in bad faith (or up to no good), i.e., "ramming", rather than an accident. They had no right to assume that she was a criminal, rather than a clumpsy person (even with a so-called "heightened scrutiny", based on the location and protection of the President). And their further pursuance of her proceeded on the same basis, i.e., their assumption that she was proceeding in bad faith. Ms. Carey was killed because she was black and racially-profiled.


This murder took place in Washington, D.C., near the White House, and not far from the Capitol. So it happened in the backyard of the President and the U.S. Attorney General (whose office is not that far from the scene of the killing).

But, don't expect the President and the Attorney General to pursue any justice for Ms. Carey, other than give speeches, if they do that (and thusfar, they haven't even done that). We are still waiting on a decision for the murders of Oscar Grant and Trayvon Martin, so why is Ms. Carey's case going to be any different, notwithstanding the fact that the police has now taken the baby's mother from her? Carey's child will now have to grow up without a mother. And, if the father or other family members don't step up to the plate, the little girl may end up in a foster home. For what? Because Carey ran into a barrier and lead the police on a chase?


IF THIS WAS A STATE CRIME, IT WOULD BE FIRST DEGREE MURDER--THERE WAS PREMEDITATION, DELIBERATION, AND MALICE AFORETHOUGHT.

Although this is a federal crime, which must be prosecuted under federal law, if it was a state crime, it would be first degree murder. The cops (or secret service agents) that first confronted Ms. Carey at the White House after she ran into the barrier decided at that point that it presented a circumstance that might allow them to use their weapons (which is why the weapons were drawn)(some of them may not have ever used their weapons in the line of duty before). When Carey did not get out of the car (after weapons were drawn), the cops then decided that at the first opportunity, they would use their weapons, using the failure to stop and the automobile as their excuse. This was the premeditation.

Next, from the site of the collision with the barrier until Carey's second collision onto the sidewalk, the cops decided that whenever the automobile finally stopped that they would fire into the vehicle. But, because they saw the baby in the vehicle, they were hesitant. However, Carey didn't allow them to act beyond the hesitation, because she bolted from the car when the car came to a halt. This was the deliberation period. They (the cops that started at the White House barrier only) thought about what they would do from the White House to the point of the killing.

Finally, the malice aforethought. Once the cops saw that Carey was black, and it didn't matter that she was a woman and a mother, they decided that they would utilize the opportunity brought about by the circumstances of the encounter to use deadly force to kill a criminal, who happened to be black (whose life, to the police, had less value than a white person, and therefore, they could act more recklessly). And, the devaluation of the black life, together with the decision to use deadly force was the malice aforethought.

So, if the killing of Ms. Carey was a state crime, the police officers actually doing the shooting and killing should be charged with first degree murder and a hate crime.

But, because the crime is a federal crime, it will have to be prosecuted pursuant to federal criminal-civil rights law, which also includes hate crime law. But, I won't go into the particulars of the appropriate federal civil rights statutes, because its clear that they were violated. There was a violent and unjustifiable death, based on race, and under color of law.


MS. CAREY'S MOTHERLY INSTINCT AND LOVE SAVED HER DAUGHTER'S LIFE; SHE GAVE HER LIFE TO SAVE HER DAUGHTER

When Ms. Carey (who had an A.A. degree in dental hygiene and a B.S. degree in health and nutrition science, and who was a working mother) first ran into the barricade at the White House and was suddenly surrounded by government officers with drawn weapons, she panicked. Her human and personal intuition and gut reaction suggested to her that the best way to avoid her and her daughter being shot at or killed at the time was to flee in the car. At least in that way they had the protection of the car, including the windows, and maybe by the time they stopped, somehow and someway, they would have greater protection (because perhaps it would become more public and draw more people and the police would not shoot them at that time).

However, because of her erratic driving, she eventually careened off the road to a sidewalk. This is where her motherly instinct and love for her daughter kicked in (and only a good mother would think this way--a poor mother would only think of herself). She instinctively, and automatically (within seconds) thought to herself, "I can stay in the car with my daughter , with the windows rolled up, and just wait and do nothing (which would endanger both our lives if the officers decide to shoot into the car) or, I can bolt from the car and leave my daughter behind and hopefully, the officers with the guns will pursue me and not my daughter, so that she will be saved". Ms. Carey bolted, and she paid the ultimate price, her life. But, she saved her daughter's life. She was her daughter's "hero".

I believe that had Ms. Carey stayed in the car, the officers would have shot into the car, even with the baby in the car. I believe that when the car first careened into the sidewalk, because of the baby, the officers had a "moment of hesitation" (and Ms. Carey used this moment of hesitation to bolt from the car). But, if Ms. Carey had not bolted immediately (during this moment of hesitation), and had remained in the car, and especially if she would have made any "movement" in the car with her hands(even to place them on the steering wheel, one at-a-time), the police officers would have opened fire into the car, notwithstanding the baby's presence. And don't say "that would never happen". It happened here in Los Angeles to a Hispanic man and his baby girl, while he was holding the baby in his arms. Purportedly, the man had a gun, but, nevertheless, the LAPD did not let the fact that the man was holding the baby in his arms stop them from firing and killing both the baby and the man. The LAPD and SWAT didn't wait until a time that they could possibly disarm the man by shooting him in the legs or waiting the man out, so that he could be talked into releasing the baby. The LAPD fired on the baby and the man, killing them both. And I believe the same thing would have happened here with Ms. Carey had she not bolted away from her daughter.

So, the Carey family should tell Carey's daughter when she is old enough to understand that her mother loved her, so much so that she gave her life so that "you" could live. There is no greater love.


**UPDATE--October 15, 2013

It's now up to the Carey family to pressure the government into seeking justice for Miriam.