Sunday, March 19, 2023

What passes for law enforcement in DC: The parents are right the car should have been impounded a long time before

A Lyft driver and two friends he had just picked up after a night out in Washington D.C. were killed after they were hit by an SUV fleeing a traffic stop, according to a report.

Now, the families of those killed are demanding answers as to why the SUV — which had racked up over $12,000 in unpaid traffic tickets — was even allowed to be out on the road.

Olvin Torres Velasquez, 23, had just gotten off his 14-hour shift at a restaurant in Arlington and was telling his coworkers how excited he was to watch his home country of Honduras play soccer that night, The Washington Post reported.

After watching Honduras lose, Velasquez and his long-time friend, Jonathan Cabrera Mendez, went out for a late-night bite in D.C., Valesquez’s relatives told the newspaper.

After a night out, the pair called a Lyft in the early hours of Wednesday morning and were picked up by driver Mohamed Kamara, 42.

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