A ROOKIE NYPD OFFICER DIED IN A HIT AND RUN ACCIDENT, BUT
THE STORY HAS MANY TWISTS.
IT ALL STARTED WHEN A COP, BY THE NAME OF VINCENT
HARRISON, GOT INTO A FENDER BENDER WITH ANOTHER DRIVER.
HE REAR-ENDED A FEMALE DRIVER, WHICH SPONSORED HIM TO EXIT
HIS CAR AND SPEAK WITH HER.
INITIAL REPORTS NOTED THAT HE HAD DRAWN HIS GUN AS HE
APPROACHED THE OTHER DRIVERS CAR, BUT THE NATURE OF THE
CONVERSATION WAS NOT IMMEDIATELY CLEAR.
AT SOME POINT, AS HE STOOD ON OR NEAR THE ROADWAY, A THIRD DRIVER
ALLEGEDLY STRUCK HIM WITH HIS INFINITY AND KEPT DRIVING.
HARRISON DIED ON THE SCENE.
THIS IS WHERE THE STORY GETS CRAZY, BECAUSE YOU ARE
THINKING, OKAY HE REAR-ENDED SOMEBODY, WHY WAS HE TRYING
HIS GUN ON THE WOMAN HE HAD?
KEEP IN MIND THAT THE WOMAN ALSO HAD HER TWO-YEAR-OLD IN THE CAR
WITH HER, AND APPARENTLY HE HAD APPROACHED HER AND SAID
SOMETHING TO THE EFFECT OF, YOU DON'T KNOW WHO I AM, I CAN KILL
YOU RIGHT NOW, NUMEROUS TIMES.
AND ABC AFFILIATE OUT OF NEW YORK REPORTED THIS, AND I'M
GUESSING THEY GOT THE INFORMATION FROM THE POLICE
REPORTS.
BUT AS HE SAID THAT, HE APPARENTLY PULLED OUT HIS
GUN AND STEPPED BACK, AND WHEN HE STEPS BACK THAT WAS WHEN
HE WAS THE VICTIM OF A HIT AND RUN.
THE GUY WHO HIT HIM HAS BEEN ARRESTED, HE'S IN CUSTODY, AND
HIS BAIL HAS BEEN SET AT
$100,000.
THAT IS SURPRISINGLY LOW, CONSIDERING WHAT HE DID.
THE GUY WHO HIT HIM HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE
ORIGINAL APPLICATION.
THE ORIGINAL ALTERCATION WAS BETWEEN HIM AND A FEMALE DRIVER.
HE REAR-ENDED HER, I DON'T KNOW WHY IT ESCALATED TO THE
POINT WHERE HE WAS PULLING A GUN ON HER, BUT AS HE DID THAT
HE WAS HIT BY A THIRD PERSON, AND THAT PERSON DROVE AWAY
AND LATER GOT CAUGHT.
SO THERE IS NO REASON TO BELIEVE THAT HE GOT HIT MALICIOUSLY, BUT
THE GUY DID RUN, AND HE KILLED SOMEONE, AND IT WAS A COP.
WHAT A STRANGE CASE.
YOU HAVE TO FEEL BAD FOR THE GUY, EVEN THOUGH YOU WOULD NOT
HAVE FELT BAD FOR HIM IF HE HAD
NOT DIED.
IF YOU ARE A COP, YOU HAVE AN EXPERT RESPONSIBILITY.
IF YOU REAR-ENDED SOMEONE, DON'T PULL A GUN ON THEM, DON'T
SAY YOU DON'T KNOW WHO I AM, I COULD KILL YOU AT ANY MOMENT.
BUT ALL THAT IS IMMATERIAL NOW, BECAUSE HE DIED.
SO, HE IS A YOUNG GUY, NO MATTER WHAT HE WAS DOING AT THE TIME
THAT WE WOULD HAVE CRITICIZED OTHERWISE, YOU DON'T WANT THIS
TO HAPPEN, SO WHAT A TRAGEDY.
THERE ARE NUMEROUS CASES THAT WE HAVE REPORTED ON WHERE A
COP WAS REPORTED ON DOING THE WRONG THING, THAT DOES NOT
MEAN WE WANT SOMETHING TERRIBLE TO HAPPEN TO THE COPS, AND
IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT WE WOULD CELEBRATE ANYTHING TERRIBLE
OR TRAGIC HAPPENING TO THEM.
IT IS NOT LIKE WE ARE RIGHT WINGERS THAT LIKE TO SELL ARMOR
PIERCING BULLETS, WHICH ARE CALLED COP KILLERS.
YOU ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU CORRECT ANY SYSTEMIC
PROBLEM THAT HAPPENS WITHIN THESE POLICE DEPARTMENT'S.
THE NYPD HAS BEEN IN THE NEWS PRETTY MUCH EVERY WEEK WITH
ONE OF THESE STORIES.
THIS IS A TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD COP, HE WAS A ROOKIE, HE
WAS NEW TO THE FORCE.
THE FACT THAT HE FELT EMBOLDENED ENOUGH TO REAR-ENDED
SOMEONE, AND THEN SET IN HER LIFE WHILE HER TWO-YEAR-OLD
CHILD WAS IN THE CAR IS CRAZY TO ME.
HE SOUNDED A LITTLE OUT OF CONTROL, THAT IS PART OF
THE REASON, YOU IMAGINE BASED ON THE FACT PATTERN, THAT HE
ACCIDENTALLY STEPPED INTO ONCOMING TRAFFIC.
IT IS LIKE THE NFL, NOBODY EVER TALKED ABOUT, COULD COPS BE
ON STUFF FROM TIME TO TIME?
SOMETIMES YOU WILL SEE A RANDOM ARTICLE ABOUT ROID RAGE, BUT WE
ALL PRETEND, NO, THEY ARE NOT ON A POWER TRIP, THEY ARE NOT ON
STEROIDS ñ
IN THIS CASE IS UNFAIR, BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT WAS IN HIS
SYSTEM, I'M SURE THEY WILL NEVER TESTED, BECAUSE HOW HE DIED
LARGELY HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT HE WAS DOING AT THE TIME.
THE ONLY REASON I'M SAYING THIS IS BECAUSE HE SOUNDED SO
OUT OF CONTROL, AND THAT HE STEPS INTO ONCOMING
TRAFFIC, IT SEEMS THAT HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE IS DOING.
AND SO, IT IS UNFORTUNATE IN EVERY WAY IMAGINABLE.