Officer Frank White's trial to resume Monday
If this is not an indication of the ofte-times upside down world we're living in today, then I don't know what would be. Here we have an off-duty police officer's story against a deranged, drunk, drugged, raging woman's.
How in the world could this poor man be on trial? How? He's being harrassed on the road by this woman. She follows him into a parking lot. By all accounts, she was the aggressor. He was attempting to evade confrontation. His wife was in the car.
Fearing for his life as the mad woman charged at them with her vehicle, officer Frank White felt compelled to defend himself, as any other human with reasonable survival instincts would.
An attorney's job, everyone knows, is to convince a jury in order to win the case. There is no reason why a despicable human being like Rachel Silva - driving under the condition that she was in, with her own child in the car - should be facing a maximum of 4 years, while the officer faces 9.
This is injustice on a shameful scale. Anybody insinuating that the officer knew the child was in the car and that he decided to point his gun at the child must be living in a sick and twisted realm where injustice is rewarded and nobility punished; a world in which good is bad and bad is good.
Recently, the boy testified in court. Seriously, how much credence does such a testimony have? With a mother like his, psychological/emotional manipulation/programming has to be obvious. Why hasn't this woman apologized for the entire ordeal? Now that she's sober and has had the opportunity to reflect on what she has brought upon herself, her son, and the officer, why can't she just come out and say, "I must apologize for my careless, irresponsible, selfish behavior. My actions directly led to our sustained injuries. Officer Frank White did his best under the circumstances. I must pay the price for what I have done."
The answer is quite simple. She's a selfish, irresponsible human being. That's why. What makes this even more sickening is that she probably feels (though I don't know that for a fact) she has a chance to get away with this. She's been empowered to ruin somebody else's life. What justice?