… One witness at the scene said in an interview that officers appeared to know who Nadine Menendez was and treated her with striking deference. Police recordings captured the voice of a man who identifies himself as a retired police officer from a nearby department. He can be heard saying he came to the scene as “a favor” to a friend whose wife knew Nadine Menendez.
The police reports indicate she was never tested for drugs or alcohol, and was allowed to leave the scene, not long before Koop was declared dead at a nearby hospital. Three days later, police investigators were sent to local bars to get more information on where Koop had been in the hours before his death.
Koop’s sister, Rosemarie Koop-Angelicola, said the family never heard a word from Nadine Menendez or the senator after the crash, and little from local authorities.
“The family really has had serious concerns over what we felt was a very sparse, one-sided investigation,” Koop-Angelicola said in an interview. “Definitely a lack of legal enthusiasm to take this case, definite lack of media coverage, and a lack of communication by the authorities of Bergen County. We felt that the whole thing was very silently swept under the rug.” …
I’m sure that’s routine for the NYT. I’d also bet that since there were no arrests any footage had been long gone.
The police report from the night in question says there was no evidence she was intoxicated and therefore no probable cause to conduct a feeling sobriety test. That’s just the 4th Amendment. Sounds like the crash itself was captured on surviellence video. Not sure how it goes down in court when you are shit faced yet didn’t cause the crash. Probably not culpable for the death, only the dui.
The police report is not to be believed.
Then there is zero evidence of what happened that night.
You said it better by far than me.