Ferrell's BAC was 0.6. Even though .08 is considered too drunk to drive, the alcohol would have impaired him some. He was probably tired and sleepy at that time of the morning. He was in a pretty serious crash. I remember running into a ditch back in the early 1970s. It was raining, and I wasn't driving fast. When I rounded a curve, the back end of my car slid into the ditch. The back passenger side of car was damaged, but I wasn't hurt at all. I got out, and a car stopped. I had never seen the person in my life, but I asked him to take me about 1/4 mile away to a house where I knew a principal of one of the county schools lived. I called my parents and told them what had happened, but I couldn't get my husband, who was at his parents' house. I asked the guy to take me to their house so I could get my husband. Their house was about six miles away, but I thought it was only a couple miles. I kept telling that stranger to go faster, but he said he was already speeding on this curvy country road. We passed my husband, but he didn't recognize that guy's car. We turned around and went back to my car. There were my parents, my husband, and a patrolman. The patrolman didn't even give me a ticket. I was stupid, though, to get in a stranger's car. I panicked and left the scene of an accident. I can definitely understand Ferrell's panic because he was in a terrible accident in the middle of the night.
The woman who owned the house was alone with just her baby. The guy had a terrible wreck. Ferrell was driving in the middle of the night after having drunk alcohol. He was in an unfamiliar place, and he was hurt. He banged on the woman's door because he needed help. When she opened the door, she was shocked when she saw what she thought was a crazy stranger trying to break into her house. If Ferrell had started acting normally after the police got there, they wouldn't have tried to use a taser on him. If I had been Kerrick, I would have shot at Ferrell also but NOT 12 shots. That's why I never tried to get a job as a policeman, fireman, or EMT--I panic too easily. I think Kerrick panicked also. There he was in the middle of the night, in the dark, with a big football player running toward him. I think if he had malice in his heart, or killed Ferrell because he was black, he would have waited until he was alone with a black man to kill him. He wouldn't have killed him on purpose in front of those witnesses. Some jobs require people who can remain calm in difficult situations, and Kerrick obviously was not that type of person. From the little I know, I don't think Kerrick is a really bad person. The police department needs some kind of psychologist to determine whether a person has the temperament to be a police officer. We definitely don't need cops who panic easily or who have anger problems.
Kerrick deserves some kind of punishment, but right now I don't think he deserves to spend 20-30 years of his life in prison. When he gets out he definitely needs to find some other line of work. I came on Websleuths to see if anybody was covering this case so I could at least keep up with the tweets about the case, but I saw on here that the judge isn't letting it be covered live and isn't allowing tweets from reporters inside the courtroom. I live NE of Charlotte and wanted to hear all of the details so I could see if I changed my mind after knowing all of the facts.
