Denver police are facing a backlash from Latinos after shooting Jessica Hernandez during a “joy ride” in a stolen car when she allegedly tried to run them down.



According to the Los Angeles Times, 17-year-old “Hernandez and four other girls were cruising Denver’s middle-class Park Hill neighborhood in someone else’s Honda when they were spotted by police.” Police say “they ordered the girls out of the car, but that instead Hernandez tried to run them down.”



Officers shot Hernandez, who was then “dragged from the car…and handcuffed before she died.” Some of those who were in the car say the vehicle did not careen toward police until Hernandez had been shot.

Okay. Teens in a hot car, cruising, caught dirty. The usual suspects are up in arms:

The Greater Denver Ministerial Alliance’s Reverend Patrick Demmer commented: “It is extremely troubling that those empowered and permitted to carry guns whose primary charge is to serve and protect are continually involved in the taking of lives of so many minority children who themselves are not armed.”

Yeah, because a 3,000 pound piece of metal traveling at high speed isn't any sort of weapon, right "reverend"? And the "so many minority children" just happen to all be coming home from church instead of riding in hot cars, robbing convenience stores or attacking concealed carry permit holders. Thank goodness she didn't have any loose cigarettes on her.



This left us flabbergasted though:

Youth organizer Mimi Madrid Puga said that many in the Latino community see carjacking as a “rite of passage” that shouldn’t attract police attention.



“I was Jessica 10 years ago. I took cars. It’s a rite of passage for many teens, but it shouldn’t carry the death penalty,” he said.

Really? Rite of passage? Stealing a car, a significant piece of property to most individuals, a means to get to a job, to transport children, to make a living, passed off as a "rite of passage"? Golly. And this will be the newest "heroine" of the leftist cause?



By the way:

The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 allows for convicted carjackers to be sentenced to death.

So the cops saved the State the cost of a trial and incarceration, not to mention their own well being and the well being of any citizen unfortunate enough to be in the path of the guided missile.



And the leftist's newest angel?

Less than a month before the shooting, Hernandez resisted arrest after police found her driving 80 miles per hours in a 55 mph zone with a revoked license. She was due to appear in court on February 10.

We're sensing a Bench Warrant on this one.

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