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Rebecca Jaramillo stepped out of the Santa Fe jail and into the cold one night in January 2021. After two days in a cell, she was free, but no one was there to pick her up. So, with a snowstorm coming, she began the long walk toward town.

The jail in Santa Fe, surrounded by barbed wire and tumbleweed, sits on a remote stretch of highway far from the city’s bustling plaza and historic churches. It is nearly two miles down the highway to the closest gas station, three miles to where a sidewalk starts and eight miles to the nearest homeless shelter.

Ms. Jaramillo, 33, made it only about a mile from the jail that night before she was hit by a sheriff’s deputy driving a police pickup truck at 57 miles per hour. Her body was thrown more than 100 feet, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.

of course it has to be a cop driving a pickup truck

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 days ago

    anakin-padme-1 We’re going to build institutions for those who transgress our government’s rules.
    anakin-padme-2 To rehabilitate them, right?
    anakin-padme-3
    anakin-padme-4 This is just murder with extra steps again, isn’t it?

    • micnd90 [he/him,any]@hexbear.netOP
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      8 days ago

      Here’s how you can (legally) murder anyone you don’t like in 3 easy steps:

      1. Steal the registration stickers from their license plate
      2. Wait for them to be stopped and taken into county jail, have their car towed
      3. Hope they get run over by other people when they walk out of jail

      If step (3) didn’t work, go back to step (1) and repeat