Brickbat: Slow Down

In Texas, former Missouri City police officer Blademir Viveros has been charged with two counts of manslaughter and one count of aggravated assault. Prosecutors said Viveros was responding to a robbery call but did not have his emergency lights on when he T-boned a vehicle driven by Angela Stewart. Stewart and her teenage son, who was a passenger in her vehicle, died at the scene.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Shocking. He was actually bothering with a robbery call?

[Medulla Oblongata]

Might have been excited by the prospect of shooting someone's dog.

[Don't look at me!]

Maybe someone was robbing the Dunkin’ Donuts shop.

[mad.casual]

Well, that's what the prosecutors who charged him with one count of manslaughter and one count of aggravated assault for causing the accident that killed two people said.

[Chumby]

In Missouri, a Texas City cop might be going through the same.

[Vesicant]

Vibrant diversity in action.

[LIBtranslator]

Whut's a former (i.e. convicted) cop from a different state doing in a cop car with lights on it--other than stealing it? Hunting pregnant women for bounty?

[Davy C]

He wasn't a former cop at the time (they fired him for this) and Missouri City is in Texas, not Missouri. Does that answer your questions?

[KiwiDude]

Is he able to point to all the other cops who have done the same thing and gotten off scott free and say “How was I supposed to know that was wrong?”

[diver64]

This story makes no sense. A former MO cop was responding to a robbery as a civilian in Texas? What the hell was he doing that for?