Cops Accused of Taking Hours to Show Up After George Floyd's 4-Year-Old Niece Was Shot in Bed

[Celerity]

“Daddy, I’ve been hit,” little Arianna Delane told her father just after being shot around 3 a.m. on New Year’s Day.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-floyds-4-year-old-niece-arianna-delane-shot-while-sleeping-in-bed-in-texas



George Floyd’s 4-year-old niece was hospitalized after she was struck in the torso by gunfire that pierced her family’s Houston home just hours after the new year. “Daddy, I’ve been hit,” Arianna Delane told her father after several bullets tore through their second-story home just before 3 a.m. on New Year’s Day.

“I was shocked until I seen the blood and I realized my 4-year-old daughter was really hit,” her dad, Derrick Delane, told KTRK-TV. “She didn’t know what was going on. She was asleep.” Delane slammed the police’s sluggish response to the incident, accusing the cops of taking roughly four hours to arrive after his daughter was shot.

In a statement on Tuesday, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said that he had initiated an investigation into the department’s delay. “I am aware and have concerns regarding the delayed response time in this incident and have initiated an Internal Affairs investigation,” he said. “I ask the city continue to pray for the child's full recovery and assist in providing information that would lead to the arrest of the suspect or suspects responsible.”

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The girl’s injuries were a devastating discovery for a family that less than two years ago was wracked with grief over the death of George Floyd, who was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer who knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes while detaining him in May 2020.

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[grumpyduck]

1. Did they really have to include the address?????

Inviting other people, are we?

[panader0]

2. That shocked me too.

[maxsolomon]

4. Probably won't be fallout from listing it.

It was likely "celebratory gunfire" (which I learned on DU is a NYE tradition in the US), and not deliberately targeting the family.

Glad the kid got to the hospital, she got hurt pretty bad.

[maxsolomon]

5. the kid's mom took her to the hospital right away.

I think this was the police response, not the EMT.

[femmedem]

6. Thanks! I was thinking of the dispatcher shortage, but I'll delete. n/t