Stop going to the usa on holiday. Its not worth it.
She was visiting her father, who lives in the Stand your Ground Deregulated Texas Oblast.
I pay for my parents to visit me instead.
In that case, it was totally worth it.
The exact circumstances of how Ms Harrison was shot have not been publicly revealed. A heavily redacted police report previously said a suspect had been identified by officers, along with five witnesses, at her father’s property.
Has she been murdered by the police?
The only situation I could imagine in which this decision could possibly be justified is if a small child got hold of a gun (because Texas) and shot her in play, and they’re trying not to ruin the kid’s life.
Wealthy or poor kid? If it was a poor kid, they would have arrested the parents.
I’m not saying it was any actual kid, that’s just the only reason I could imagine being possibly justified.
And the kid. And shot the dog. And likely deported the neighbor.
Then they could at least state it was an accident. Instead of:
the evidence didn’t meet the threshold for criminal charges
My thought as well, though this is in texas so why would they be bothering to cover it up? It’s not like they’d be convicted anyways.
Maybe in this case it’s was blatant? Maybe it’s because it’s a pretty blond woman, which traditionally are rallying points for outrage?
why would they be bothering to cover it up?
Possibly due to international implications? Guessing now.
It’s extremely strange that no details have been released in this case. I kinda doubt it’s actual full-bore corruption, that’s still fairly rare here, but man for a case involving a foreign citizen it’s sure suspicious they’re so quiet about it. And even in texas there’s so few situations where a fatal shooting doesn’t merit charges. It seems a little far fetched for her to have, say, been mugging someone who then shot her in self-defense. Was she shot by some kind of trained combat armadillo? A senile centenarian who passed away during the investigation? A very small child? (actually those last two are feasible, though in both cases the owner of the firearm they got ahold of would probably have been charged, though it’s texas so that isn’t 100%). Those are the only sort of examples where this might be justified, but lets be honest it was probably the cops.
Just fucking weird. Her poor family.
Yeah, my first thought was the cops, too. That’s usually when the authorities hush up.
There would be something leaked from the 5 witnesses or someone briefed on the case like the grand jury. It’s something sad like a kid or someone with dementia near death.
Even then it must have been really abnormal, normally they just don’t release the officer’s name and give them a month of paid time off. What the hell…
Could be a former officer.
For the sake of her family’s closure, I hope we find out. I can’t imagine what it’s like to have speculation like this about something so horrible.
And it happened January 10th. It’s been months and there were 5 witnesses who haven’t spoken to reporters. The most likely outcomes are all really sad.
Yeah, all of my real guesses are too bleak for me to want to type them up. This is just awful.
Some combination of negligence and tragic accident.
Why won’t they reveal the details? Who are they protecting, besides the shooter? I’m guessing some rich mofo’s are involved in this.
Shooting forigners is sport in texas
Only the brown ones, if they’re white it’s technically poaching unless they’re in-season.
When is white foreigner season?
When they find meme images of a bald VP on their phone.
My best guess is the shooter is either her father or a kid, you know dad goes native and answers the door with a gun now and whoops finger slipped. Or maybe the toddler next door got a hold of daddies pistol and pointed it at the woman in the neighbors lawn.
It seems like if it were the cops they’d just invoke qualified immunity, put the shooter on paid administrative leave and have the states budget pay off the coming lawsuit.
Did Elon Musk shoot her while on a K binge?
I note there is no information or statement from her father. Which is unusual, because it’s his house where she was shot.
My guess is that someone completely screwed up some kind of gun safety step and the shooting was unintentional. Although that should result in some kind of negligence charges, I can see Texas giving a moron with a gun a free pass as long as ‘they didn’t mean too’ or something other bullshit.
Highly unlikely. Even in bumpus old corners of Texas, the state is absolutely obsessed with doing anything to take away any citizen’s gun rights and will do so by nailing them with some kind of felony, and a negligent discharge scenario that results in somebody getting killed in normal circumstances would definitely qualify.
People in Texas may love their guns, but the cops in Texas are the same as cops everywhere and if they had their way nobody would have the guns except them.
This points to me that someone involved in law enforcement, someone involved with the government, or someone with very high level connections and/or a lot of money was the one responsible for this and that’s why it was swept under the carpet. If it were just a regular Joe there’s no way.
Remember that there are a lot of circumstances that could makenit ‘unavoidable’ or shift part of the blame to the victim. A misfire and ricochet would still be called a shooting. If she was somewhere down range and a bullet missed a backstop to hit her it would still be a shooting. Maybe a child was shooting the gun in either scenario.
There are plenty of situations where a grand jury would see something as an ‘unavoidable accident’ or not want to punish whoever had control of the weapon.
Until we know more, there is always the possibility the grand jury doesn’t want to follow through based on some misguided emotional criteria instead of holding someone accountable for negligence.
That’s remotely possible, and I would be inclined to agree if the circumstances around this weren’t so fishy to begin with.
E.g. why is the police report heavily redacted? Why has the suspect not been named? This is highly unusual, and suggests there’s something more going on. I’d doubt very highly the grand jury were given the full picture.
It’s pretty much a done deal that we’ll never know more. Someone is making an effort to bury this.
