Seattle’s Interim Police Chief responding after a young woman accuses officers of abandoning her after she was caught in the crossfire of a drive-by shooting. Now the chief is releasing body cam video that seems to show just that.
This all went down exactly a week ago in Columbia City when a 17-year-old boy was shot in the leg.
But a Seattle woman and her Uber driver were caught in the crossfire, and they felt left to fend for themselves.
Chief Rahr thinks the shock of the incident may have led to a misunderstanding between responding police and the woman.
The police chief is not saying the woman made the story up. Absolutely not. Interim Chief Rahr went to great pains to say she is not blaming her. But she says the trauma of what happened at this intersection last Tuesday can take time to catch up with a person.
Now for the first time we have the body cam video.
This is how the officer approached the 24-year-old woman last Tuesday. She was sitting in an Uber — riddled with bullets — after she and the driver were caught in the crossfire of a drive by shooting. A 17-year-old male they do not know, appeared to be the target. But this body cam video shows she was calm — and displayed little emotion.