Millions die every year of preventable diseases and harsh poverty. Three over privileged brats died because of their own reckless behavior. Sorry, I’m not at all sad about that.

I suggest you google something called “scene safety “. One of they key components of being a first responder is not to become victim yourself. There is no moral or professional obligation for the police to jump in the water and rescue you.

“If I believed in God, I’d pray for you.” ... That is some real condescending crap.

Let’s think here for a second shall we? Miss Arm-chair analysis? It’s a dark swamp, with zero visibility UNDER the water, in alligator infested Florida, with not even so much as a snorkel on-hand to enable someone to stage an actual rescue without it being borderline impossible. You’ve seen too many Hollywood films.…

It’s not that they deserved to die. It’s that driving into a pond and drowning was a clear and foreseeable consequence of their own behavior, and nobody else’s.

This is a quote from one of the parents:

I’m from the area and the “pond” they went into had 20-50 feet of reeds and muck before the water actually starts. There would be no way a human could have made it through that into the pond and rescued them. But of course the news won’t report that, they would rather sensationalize the girls deaths.

People on this thread are idiots, seriously. They’ve seen too many Hollywood films. Staging a nighttime rescue in a pond at night with zero visibility (in Florida where Alligators are everywhere), with not even so much as a fucking snorkel, good luck. I would bid anyone on this thread to try it even in the fucking…

The police don’t have scuba equipment on-hand to stage a fucking night-time rescue at night in 15 feet of water in the dark with zero visibilty. It’s Florida, there’s alligators everywhere, and the headline of this story and the police demonization is mis-guided and ignorant.

Thank you. It’s also Florida, there’s fucking alligators all over the place, and people need to remember that staging an underwater rescue at night (without the right equipment) is borderline impossible.

They put themselves in the situation they ended up in. Maybe if their parents had put more effort into being parents they wouldn’t be blaming cops for not putting in enough effort being cops. Water rescues aren’t easy. Departments have specially trained units to do it just for that reason. Don’t blame the police for…

Exactly. All of those officers have families of their own. It is not their responsibility to put their own lives in danger to protect yours.

Thank you. I wonder if the people blaming the cops for not saving them have any idea how hazardous this type of thing is — even with the right equipment.

This is...hard to process, challenging to say the least.
As a person who almost got their car stolen because the people who were trying to steal it were around these girls age, I probably would’ve choked them to death before they got in the water.
And yes, that sounds horrible and cruel. You know what else is horrible…

In bad news for the girls, many who are angry about comments on this thread and a good swathe of the Bible Belt:

The police did nothing wrong, its not their job to risk their lives to save criminals, its their job to stop criminals and protect the innocent.

It’s not that they deserved to die, but they LITERALLY KILLED THEMSELVES by their actions, and there’s only so much personal risk you can expect officers to take. Drowning in an attempt to rescue criminals from their sunken car isn’t high on anyone’s priority list.

Its not that they deserved to die. Its that if you break the law in such a fashion, a cop shouldn’t have to put his own life at risk to rescue you. That is not fair to the cop, and if you reply “that’s the cop’s job” I will virtually throatpunch you. To ask a cop to put his life on the line for an asshole kid on their…

Doubt you’d be okay with your 15-year-old getting a tattoo. All the reasons why are the problems it indicates. In general kids who are “doing the right thing and going somewhere” don’t have tattoos in 9-10th grade.

“Deputies went to the home of Kristine Hayes, Miller’s grandmother, who had legal guardianship of the teen, on the morning of March 31. Upon hearing what had happened, Hayes was “extremely emotional and visibly shaken,” investigative documents say.