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driver shoots cyclist in the head for having a kid with him

what i learned from Miss March and this story - firemen are crazy. :D

just kidding! if there are any fire fighters here thank you for keeping us safe, just dont shoot cyclists and their children. :)
 
raggedjimmi said:
Why was the driver carrying a gun with him?
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Because this was in North Carolina.


I simply cannot wrap my mind around this story. How on earth does one get from "you're not protecting your child and I'm going to tell you how I feel about it" to "I'm going to kill you in front of your child because you're not protecting your child?"

I hope he rots.
 
That must be the most feasible way to convince the kid to wear a helmet. Am i right?
If that happened to me as a kid, i definitely would have worn it a lot more often.
 
On Monday, they confirmed he has been placed on paid investigative leave pending the outcome of this investigation.

Shouldn't he, ya know, be arrested for attempted murder?
 
nick9191 said:
Shouldn't he, ya know, be arrested for attempted murder?
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Police arrested Diez and charged him with attempted first degree murder.

His bond was set at $500,000.
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It appears he then posted reduced bond of $200,000 (link), and then a grand jury failed to indict him for the murder charge, and instead opted to indict him for "assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill."

Police filed the attempted murder charge against the 17-year Asheville Fire Department veteran July 26 after he allegedly fired a handgun at a bicyclist on Tunnel Road, barely missing his head.

District Attorney Ron Moore said he submitted both the attempted murder and felony assault charges to the grand jury for consideration. He said he doesn’t know why the grand jury rejected the attempted murder charge.

Grand jury proceedings are secret. At least 12 of the panel’s 18 members must agree on an indictment. First-degree attempted murder requires a trial jury to find the elements of premeditation and deliberation to be present to convict a defendant on the charge.

First-degree attempted murder carries a presumptive sentence of 125-198 months in prison for a defendant with no criminal record. The presumptive sentence for assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill is 20-39 months.

Moore said he could resubmit the attempted murder charge to the grand jury if he finds there is additional evidence the panel didn’t hear. If not, the charge will be dropped, he said.

“I’ll ask the police if there is additional evidence,” he said. “If they say no, that’s it.”
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What a complete lunatic. I was out with the gf a little under an hour ago and we were half way across the road when a young fella, maybe 20 or 21 with a couple of his buddies decided to speed around a corner and try and run us over.

Wow was I livid, I was dreaming about finding him and tearing off his lower jaw. Strange how vicious a race we can be.. even the most sensible of us.
 
So because it was a random homicide act, and not one of planning it's reduced to an assault charge?

Maybe Signall-11 was right about the Fire Department being corrupt.:eek:
 
killerrobot said:
So because it was a random homicide act, and not one of planning it's reduced to an assault charge?

Maybe Signall-11 was right about the Fire Department being corrupt.:eek:
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Dude, I spent some time in the rural and small town American south when I worked for the Red Cross doing disaster management. It really opened my eyes to how totally screwed up things are.

During Hurricane Katrina and following two hurricans, in Alabama, I saw small town sheriffs address black middle aged men as "boys." Men he didn't know and didn't look like thugs. I saw a lot more of it later.

In Louisiana and along the border strip of Texas, I saw full on Klan towns. There was one place where I sent a truck with supplies, mostly water. It got chased out of town because the driver was black. I wouldn't have believed it unless I spoke directly with the driver and his partner. This was a town that had no running water and electricity. From then on, we sent all relief shipments with law enforcement escorts, mostly feds and out of state LE.

There was one particular area that was SO corrupt, literally tons of food supplies dropped at the area Fire Departments were disappearing every few days while the people were complaining that they were getting nothing while some people got everything. Eventually, things got so bad, we had to ask for help. I ended up working with a lot of Austin and Pittsburgh PD because they were the departments assigned to work my areas. I also ended up seeing a lot of Federal agents, mostly DEA for some reason. I couldn't quite figure out why all these DOJ agents were running around everywhere. Then I found out from talking to them that they were really there to keep an eye on local law enforcement because the local cops were just as, if not more, corrupt than the fire departments I was forced to work with.

How screwed up is that? We were sending food, water and non-food items like diapers to small towns with US Marshals as escorts because the police and fire departments would steal everything. In America. In 21st century.

I got kicked over to Florida after a while because of another incoming hurricane and I couldn't have been happier to leave.

So yeah, I have no faith whatsoever in small town police and fire departments in the Deep South.
 
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