The officer fired his service weapon four times at point-blank range into the windshield of Ms. Daniels' vehicle as she passed by him, very narrowly missing her, and he "likely would have killed her had the bullets not lodged in the dashboard but instead had struck her at such close range."
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| Qwen Daniels. |
An Austin policeman shot four times “point blank” into the windshield of a waitress fleeing a late-night attack from drunks on a “crowded and boisterous” street, then arrested her and impounded her car for 10 months, the woman claims in court.
As she did so, she says, “several drunken patrons from the nearby bars” attacked her vehicle. It was about 2:20 a.m., Oct. 20, 2013.
Daniels says she accelerated to escape the mob, causing her tires to squeal and attract the attention of Officer Krummel and other Austin police officers, who ran in the direction of the commotion.
“Krummel then inexplicably and without warning pulled his weapon and opened fire on Ms. Daniels’ vehicle in complete and utter disregard for Ms. Daniels’ safety and the safety of the several hundred other citizens walking along the street there,” according to the lawsuit. “Krummel fired his service weapon four times at point-blank range into the windshield of Ms. Daniels’ vehicle as she passed by him, very narrowly missing her, and he likely would have killed her had the bullets not lodged in the dashboard but instead had struck her at such close range.”
Daniels says she stopped her car at the next intersection, where she was “gruffly handled and ignominiously taken to the ground by the APD officers there.” She says it should have been a “routine traffic stop.” Officers then interrogated her for hours at police headquarters while she was handcuffed to a metal bench in a cold room. Daniels says she was in a state of shock, was not offered any water, or even allowed to call her mother, who is a judge.
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