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Originally Posted by Elspode
C'mon, glatt...
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I think cops and DAs look to find any evidence they can to nail someone once that person has appeared on their radar as a "bad guy." The press tells us about the police report, and we get one side of the story. Since the criminal system is adversarial, it is by definition a biased point of view.
I think they are reaching with their charges here.
We know:
1. She was in a jealous irrational state. (She was nuts)
2. She went to great lengths to confront this woman
3. She had a non-lethal BB gun with her. Maybe it looked like a real gun.
4. She knocked on the car window.
5. She tried to open the car door.
6. She put pepper spray in the car when the window was rolled down.
7. Her own car had a bunch of random dual use materials in it that could, under the right circumstances with a cooperative victim, be used to commit a murder.
In all those facts I see a mentally unstable woman who may need to be committed.
I also see an assault.
If there's a law about stalking or threatening a person, it has also been violated.
I don't see an attempted carjacking. She didn't want a car.
I don't know the legal definition of "kidnap" but she had no intention of kidnapping this woman in the traditional sense of the word. I don't see attempted kidnapping here.
It's possible she planned to murder the woman, but she had no deadly force with her when she confronted the woman. The closest thing she had was a BB gun that might be confused for a real gun. She did not brandish the BB gun, but she did throw it away before confronted by the police.
We don't know what was going on in this woman's head. I speculate that she was nuts, and went to confront her "rival," with the intent of saying something along the lines of "stay away from my man or I'll fucking kill you, bitch." Maybe she planned to wave the BB gun around to make her point. Clearly, I don't approve of her behavior, but calling it a murder attempt is a stretch.
Sure it's possible. I just don't think it's likely.
The Boston DA is prosecuting the lite brite dudes in Boston as terrorists. It doesn't mean they are terrorists.