Mark’s Soap Box

Seems the PD is not the only one who is tight lipped about this. The woman who was shot by an off duty SDPD officer is refusing to speak with Oceanside Detectives. Hmmm, that doesn’t look so good for her.

Very little information is coming out, and many are not happy about it.

Three days after the incident, investigators have yet to release key details about how the traffic dispute escalated into gunfire.

“They (investigators) don’t want to try this in the court of public opinion,” Poorman said. “You don’t want to taint too much of the public because some of these people may end up on a jury.”

Gee if only we could believe that.

The incident began when the driver of one car cut off the driver of the other car, Poorman said. One driver followed the other to the Lowe’s Home Improvement store parking lot on Old Grove Road, where the shooting took place, authorities have said.

Investigators have so far refused to comment on the roles each driver played in the episode.

Well then let’s speculate. Either the cop was ticked off at her and went ape-sh*t, or she followed him and he was ‘concerned for his safety’. Neither one of those is good for the cop. San Diego PD has a reputation of being trigger-happy and a bit indiscriminate in it’s use of force. This won’t help that.

It has been revealed that the officer’s wife was traveling with him at the time of the incident. She is a dispatcher with Carlsbad PD — Carlsbad and Oceanside share a boundry — and they live in Oceanside.

Two years ago, in a case that made national news, an off-duty Coronado police officer shot former Chargers linebacker Steve Foley during a confrontation in Poway.

In that incident, the Coronado officer said he started following the football player’s car because he suspected drunken driving, police said. The car eventually stopped on a dark road outside Foley’s home.

Foley got out of the car and confronted the officer, who ultimately shot Foley three times, authorities said at the time. The officer was not injured.

This is why unmarked cars should not be making stops. Do you people not have a phone that can dial 911 and ask for assistance? Seems not.

In that case, the Sheriff’s Department provided a detailed account of alleged events within 24 hours of the shooting.

Sheriff’s Lt. Mike McClain said many factors can affect how soon information about an incident is made available to the public, including investigators’ own access to evidence and witnesses in the case.

“When it involves officers, I think everyone wants to be very careful that what they say happened is what really happened,” McClain said.

When it involves the public, who the hell cares?

Even the LA Times has picked up the story; great. San Diego Officer on leave in off-duty shooting of woman and 8-year-old son

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