carterbeauford
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...205road-rage,1,933865.story?coll=chi-news-hed
I am not familiar with the law in IL, but this sounds like assault with a deadly weapon where I live. There is little chance that anyone in Chicago would have been legally carrying a handgun... assuming this had happened anywhere else in free America, do you think deadly force would have been justified? Hitting someone with a car is one thing, but I think continuing to drive is where the line was crossed. Accidents happen, this one sounds intentional. People have died being dragged by cars.
A 49-year-old Chicago woman, who allegedly refused to stop for paramedics and dragged one of them for several feet, was ordered held in lieu of $60,000 bail Tuesday.
Athena Morris, of the 7900 block of South Ellis Avenue, appeared before Cook County Criminal Court Judge Colleen Hyland on charges of aggravated battery, reckless driving, leaving the scene of an accident, failing to carry her driver's license and criminal trespass to a vehicle.
Paramedics were loading a patient into an ambulance at about 2:15 p.m. Monday in the 8200 block of South Langley Avenue when Morris tried to drive around the ambulance onto the curb and toward people nearby, prosecutors said.
Paramedics tried to stop her car by reaching inside and turning off the ignition, police said. But she rolled up her window, trapping a paramedic by his arm, and tried to drive away, prosecutors said.
She drove in reverse and dragged him for about four car lengths before she fled down an alley, prosecutors said. Chicago Fire Department personnel apprehended her.
The paramedic's right hip, right shoulder and right knee were injured, prosecutors said.
Morris was treated at Jackson Park Hospital. Police said it was later discovered Morris was driving a rental car without authorization.
I am not familiar with the law in IL, but this sounds like assault with a deadly weapon where I live. There is little chance that anyone in Chicago would have been legally carrying a handgun... assuming this had happened anywhere else in free America, do you think deadly force would have been justified? Hitting someone with a car is one thing, but I think continuing to drive is where the line was crossed. Accidents happen, this one sounds intentional. People have died being dragged by cars.