Ex-Police Official Backs Car Into a Woman

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

Source: NY Times

Howard Safir, a New York City police commissioner during the Giuliani administration, backed his sport utility vehicle into a pregnant woman on the Upper East Side on Friday afternoon and then drove away, the police said.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/nyregion/09safir.html?src=twt&twt=nytimes

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Does this surprise anyone? 41-shot Safir? Broomstick-Safir? and this is not his first hit and run... but of course no charges are filed.

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. You gotta be kidding me

NO CHARGES?!

[left coaster]

2. Yeah, he wasn't aware he had struck her?

“I was crossing the street in between cars and he hit reverse, and his female passenger screamed, ‘Are you not looking, there’s someone there,’ and as he was reversing, he hit me on my shoulder and my knee and the side of my stomach,” she said.

Then he started to drive away, she said.

“I confronted him and I said, ‘I’m pregnant. Did you not see?’ And he just disregarded that and kept going,” she said. She said if the passenger had not screamed, causing her to turn, she would been hurt more seriously."


This testimony from the victim I absolutely believe.. too bad there are two different legal systems in this country. One for the ruling class, and another for the rest of us.

[Libertas1776]

3. That's the real Law and Order in NYC

the victim gets shafted and the perp of privilege gets away with it.

[HughMoran]

4. "Ex-police"

Reminds me of the old Saturday Night Live skits - back when SNL was funny. :)

[midnight]

5. What surprises me is the women said she made him aware of the situation at the

time he backed into her, and he just drives away?????

[Historic NY]

6. Who walks between parked cars in NY.,,its a major danger zone.

http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us/olderDriver/alternative.htm#behind

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

7. from what I have seen

most everyone

[Ticonderoga]

8. Exactly right.

Citations should have been issued to both driver and pedestrian.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

9. Must be good paying job, driving an 2009 Cadillac Escalade...

Damn repukes above the laws.

[madmom]

10. So does that mean if I have an accident with my car, but am not aware of it, I am

not liable? Say if I'm backing into a parking spot and it the bumper of the car in front/back of me, I am not responsible for any damage that may or may not occur? even if someone is there and sees it and tells me, but because I didn't know "at the time" I am home free? Sure sounds like it would be!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

11. this is not breaking news?

ODD