Police investigating fatal use of force against rampage-driver Miriam Carey

Police investigating fatal use of force against rampage-driver Miriam Carey though officials believe they 'did the best they could under the situation'

Washington police will now investigate officers' use of force in killing Miriam Carey, the 34-year-old woman who tried to ram her car through a White House barrier on Thursday.
Investigators will study the car chase and shooting and look into whether police officers took the right steps in stopping Carey's rampage, which briefly put the U.S. Capitol on lock down.
So far, Senate Sergeant at Arms Terrance Gainer believes that the officers 'did the best they could under the situation.'
But Carey's sisters have both made statements expressing how they disagree.
Her sister Valerie Carey, a retired New York City Police Officer, said there was 'no need for a gun to be used when there was no gunfire coming from the vehicle'.
'We're still very confused as a family why she's not still alive,' sister Amy Carey-Jones said in New York on Friday.'I feel like it's not justified, not justified.'
Sgt Gainer says officers working at high-target buildings must make quick decisions to confront threats.
'This is not a routine highway or city traffic stop. It is simply not that,' Gainer said yesterday. 'The milieu under which we're operating at the United States Capitol and I suspect at the White House and at icons up in New York is an anti-terrorism approach, and that is a difference with a huge, huge distinction.'
Capitol Police Chief Kim Dine was also happy with the way his officers acted under pressure, saying they were 'heroic' defending the Capitol


Source:Daily Mail