Buzzy said:

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I'm trying to understand your viewpoint here.

You're saying "you have no idea what the officer told her" as if she may have told West something different than "turn off on Shady Trail". What do you think she told her if it wasn't to turn off the road?

Your assumption is there is a 'massive failure to communicate', some others see someone given simple instructions and the failure to follow them as a sign of intoxication, which is what led to this whole situation.

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That's just the way I saw it. I said the day the video was released I didn't think she was drunk and put the failure to get a breath test on the officer.

I said before, I put responsibility for communication and understanding on the person in charge of the situation.

Bocephus said:

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VegasAg86 said:

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Yep, this is me ignoring that claim:

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So when the officer gets out of the car and tells her to go turn into the next intersection and she proceeds to park in the right lane of a highway, you are not going to assume there is something wrong with this woman? Parking in the lane of a freeway at night seems reasonable to you?

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Again, I have no idea what the officer told her. Again, there is a massive failure to communicate between these two. Again, I'm not making any judgment on the second one without a bodycam with audio as to what was said.

Despite all of the bad information you got about the events of that night, you still view your beliefs as fact.

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So you think she got out of the car when Angela West was parked in the center lane, walked up to the car and instructed her to go park in the right lane?

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Once again, it is in my post that I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE OFFICER TOLD HER, but the totality of the circumstances tells me there's a reasonable chance the instructions weren't clear to West. I know the officer lied about smelling alcohol. I'm not taking her word as to what was said. I want to hear it myself to determine whether it was clear.

We have a woman with a BAC of 0.00, who spent a night in jail for a felony DWI, perhaps you should try to figure out why the officer got it wrong, rather than trying to justify what she did. Her conclusion was absolutely, 100% wrong.

Bocephus said:

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richardag said:

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pacecar02 said:

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Bocephus said:

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stopping on a highway

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I mean, why stop lying now......

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Loup 12/Northwest Highway is not a highway? Guess they need to change the name.

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Not sure exactly where this incident occurred, but yes there are definitely sections of loop 12/northwest highway that have numerous traffic lights.

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This is ridiculous. Does it stop being a highway bc there are traffic lights? Would you feel safe stopping you car in the right lane of Northwest Highway before shady trail at night?

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Someone posted that she should have just pulled off to the right of the tractor trailer which from the photo was obviously not possible because there was a van on the right side of the tractor trailer stopped at a traffic light.

The question about a highway seemed to infer there would be no traffic lights which obviously there were, explaining why there was a van stopped to the right of the tractor trailer. The implication was since this was a highway it was a limited access highway which obviously it was not.

And yes it is common for people to stop in the right lane on roads with traffic lights (regardless if they are called highways). I see it all the time, either due to breakdowns and traffic stops by police officers.

I was recently told that the bar for passing the physical fitness test for a DPD officer is a six inch vertical jump and a total of four pushups.

It appears there is no IQ test however. Sad.