there is no serious injury. I have a one-year old, and reading this, seriously, made me feel a bit ill for a minute. It's amazing how differently one feels about babies after having one- when it's not abstract anymore, the thought of one being truly hurt is a visceral experience.
It isn't that it isn't a big deal no matter what - it is just somehow different when you can just imagine that moment where the stroller is being torn loose from your grip ...
The officer, who was driving north on Center, was making a left onto Seaverns when he brushed the baby carriage and it tipped over, according to a police report.
it changed from "baby went flying"
to "The officer, who was driving north on Center, was making a left onto Seaverns when he brushed the baby carriage and it tipped over, according to a police report."
"The officer, who was driving north on Center, was making a left onto Seaverns when he brushed the baby carriage and it tipped over, according to a police report."
Of course, the officer did not brush anything, his car "brushed" (people usually say "hit") the baby carriage.
The effect of trying to minimize these events with misleading language is that people learn to distrust their own police departments.
The Globe could have called the mother and asked her to describe the event and provided that information too.
"It's a misrepresentation to say the officer brushed the stroller," Kumar said. "The stroller caught air and landed face down - it was horrible and frightening."
What we have here is an accident, a collision between a police car and a pedestrian. Cars must yield to pedestrians in the road, even if the pedestrian is crossing unlawfully. There is no mitigating circumstance of the officer being on route to an emergency, I.E. officer down.
It will be interesting to see if the policeman is disciplined by the department or whether the BPD enables this by brushing it under the rug...
the rationalization for which would go something like this, cops put their lives on the line to protect citizens so if one accidentally runs over a baby in a stroller then he's earned the right not to face disciplinary action.
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Ugh- I hope
there is no serious injury. I have a one-year old, and reading this, seriously, made me feel a bit ill for a minute. It's amazing how differently one feels about babies after having one- when it's not abstract anymore, the thought of one being truly hurt is a visceral experience.
Er, not that I
didn't think a baby being hurt was a big deal before I had one- I don't mean that when I say that I feel "differently" now... you know what I mean.
I hear ya!
It isn't that it isn't a big deal no matter what - it is just somehow different when you can just imagine that moment where the stroller is being torn loose from your grip ...
Also, babies
should not have to deal with pain on a large scale. Imagine how frightening it must be...
anyway, here's a question:
why is this story not reported yet anywhere else but Bostonist and here?
I was wondering about that too
That's not right!
Because all the reporters
Because all the reporters are in Germany.
Follow-up to Above Post
Adam, why are you calling it "Jamaica Plain" and not "JP?" Are you not a hip Bostonian? :-)
I'm so square ...
That's what I still call Roslindale's business district, rather than "the village." :-).
Globe says minor injuries to baby
Baby injured after carriage struck by police car:
Do baby buggies still have
Do baby buggies still have rubber bumpers?
they played down the accident
it changed from "baby went flying"
to "The officer, who was driving north on Center, was making a left onto Seaverns when he brushed the baby carriage and it tipped over, according to a police report."
no damage to car, police consider citing baby for being in road
Of course, the officer did not brush anything, his car "brushed" (people usually say "hit") the baby carriage.
The effect of trying to minimize these events with misleading language is that people learn to distrust their own police departments.
The Globe could have called the mother and asked her to describe the event and provided that information too.
Globe talks to witness
Baby, 1, hit by police vehicle in Jamaica Plain:
the baby is ok
What we have here is an accident, a collision between a police car and a pedestrian. Cars must yield to pedestrians in the road, even if the pedestrian is crossing unlawfully. There is no mitigating circumstance of the officer being on route to an emergency, I.E. officer down.
It will be interesting to see if the policeman is disciplined by the department or whether the BPD enables this by brushing it under the rug...
the rationalization for which would go something like this, cops put their lives on the line to protect citizens so if one accidentally runs over a baby in a stroller then he's earned the right not to face disciplinary action.
they were in a crosswalk
according to the witness:
"They were pedestrians going through a crosswalk. I don't understand how he didn't see them."
Too many detail hours?
On the phone or the radio? Eating in the cruiser? Or, maybe, just the Thick Blue Fog of Privilege?