by Mark Wilson

A Bellaire, Texas woman was nearly killed in the privacy of her own home, by indiscriminate police gunfire. The officers were placed on paid administrative leave as three unarmed women were hospitalized for gunshot wounds.

Houston Police Department officers attempted to pull over a Cadillac SUV after they saw it make an "illegal U-turn." Rather than pull over, however, the driver sped up in an attempt to elude police.

As the officers gave chase, they saw what they believed to be bags of marijuana being thrown out the window. The officers pursued the SUV into a residential neighborhood where the driver lost control and crashed into a tree and a fire hydrant.

Police then opened fire on the two unarmed women in the SUV, claiming that they attempted to assault the officers by backing their vehicle into the patrol vehicles. Police bullets ultimately hit the driver and passenger of the SUV, and an innocent woman minding her own business in the privacy of her home near the crash site.

The officers, who claimed that they fired in self-defense, were placed on paid administrative leave pending completion of an investigation into the matter. Body cam and dashboard video of the incident has not yet been released to the public.

During a press conference at the scene of the shooting, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo reported that both suspects, who were doing well in the hospital, were charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Police did not recover the bag of marijuana that was supposedly thrown from the vehicle.

 Source: thefreethoughtproject.com 

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