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
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
unambiguous premeditated murder but lets guess if it was investigated as such
Being thrown over 100 feet?? Either that sheriff was driving a trillion miles an hour more than 57, or was very intentionally accelerating as they hit them.
Not necessarily, here are some helpful formulae.
Doing some napkin math, a 50 mph collision would throw a pedestrian over 100 feet.
the more suspicious thing is a sherrif, who almost definitely came from the prison, would be unaware of and accidentally strike a person they just let out.
Absolutely, it’s deeply suspicious and almost certainly an intentional murder. All I’m saying is the math adds up.
Cars have a crazy amount of mass and pedestrians can get thrown really surprising distances at much lower speeds than you might think.
Weird, but very fair enough.
And in bad country, the local prison is 10 miles away from shelter and it forces ex-inmates to walk during a snowstorm, only to get hit by an official in a lifted truck killing them.
CW: Life in
, brief mention of suicideWhen I was let out of jail they put me out into some seriously deplorable climatic conditions besides having just spent over 2 months in an overcrowded jail(there were three suicides in the jail while I was there) the neighboring states had been on fire all summer, our only recreation area had no real windows but a grate-covered gap to the outside that let smoke fill up the area and we could see the orange sky. My ****** got a short term room for me to I guess ease the transition to me living in my car so I was lucky in that. The several mile walk back to town through the wildfire smoke was unpleasant and amplified by the horrible stroad layout of the city that does everything to discourage walking anywhere.
Isnt it… Like an offenes to walk on roads?
So its basically just
- get out of jail
- By being out of jail, you are now instantly on a road
- get arrested for being on a road
Interstates, I believe so. State highways not usually.
We’re going to build institutions for those who transgress our government’s rules.
To rehabilitate them, right?
This is just murder with extra steps again, isn’t it?Here’s how you can (legally) murder anyone you don’t like in 3 easy steps:
- Steal the registration stickers from their license plate
- Wait for them to be stopped and taken into county jail, have their car towed
- 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
Or just shoot them and then say that they were running away from you with violent intent.
This happened to a family member with immigration issues many years ago. Him and several people were left at a bus stop far away from home. I went to pick him up and we gave two others a ride back into the city. By the time we got back there was KFC chicken and rice waiting for them. They inhaled the food.
But they were no angels so it’s a victimless crime.
The reputation Greyhound used to have was that it was primarily used by people just released from prison.
But Greyhound is basically being sold off for parts so I expect this problem will get worse.
