“If she were never shot and died” meant that the cops never fired on her and indicated a modicum of restraint on the part of the APD Narcotics Unit.
Now if you meant, “If she were shot but survived” that’s a slightly different answer. I’m pretty sure any plans to charge ger wouldn’t have gone far. Don’t forget: this woman was well known in the community as a long-time resident and churchgoer: she had the support of her neighbors and family. Despite what was said in the early part of the thread when I wrote this last year, to logical-thinking people the idea of a 92-year old woman trafficking in kilos of cocaine is pretty damned far-fetched. Any plans to charge this woman would have been derailed by these same community supporters. In fact, if she were still alive, she’d probably be an even more powerful symbol of poor victims of police brutality and overzealous cops.
Actually, Cartooniverse asked the question that prompted both our responses.
And what you’ve described in your last post is pretty much exactly what happened, and probably would have happened whether she survived or not. The plans to charge her (ok, well, drape the blame over her corpse) didn’t go far for the very reasons you say. She was known and respected in the community, and the cop’s story was too far-feched given who she was and the easily disproved justification for the no-knock warrant.
Actually, I feel kind of bad that she DIDN’T shoot the bastards – they certainly deserved it. And it would have been somehow more satisfying to learn than the truth – that the cops scattered so much lead around that they shot each other up.
Our two responses to the question demonstrate why I like hanging out here. The question was open to more than one interpretation, and we interpreted it differently and gave reasonable scenarios for each. And I think we were both correct, if you can use that term for speculation. Had she been shot and survived, the cops would have tried to hang all kinds of stuff on her, though I believe that their story would have eventually fallen apart. Had the police found a way to peacefully enter and search, they would have found nothing, and there never would have been any charges,
What doesn’t make sense to me is what the cops thought they were accomplishing. I understand Rambo style raids on suspected drug dealers, I understand coming up with bogus warrants. But…what exactly did these murderous cops think they were doing? They cooked up this bogus warrant…why?