The Salt Lake Police Department is defending itself in the case of the man accused of a string of hit-and-runs in the city and questions about why Ahn Pham wasn’t arrested after the initial hit-and-run last August.

A department spokesman told KSL TV that the case was investigated as an aggravated assault. But, it was determined that there wasn’t enough probable cause to arrest Pham, despite having a license plate number, a victim, and two witness accounts of what happened.

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    7 months ago

    No one has argued for anyone to be locked up for causing minor damage to inanimate objects.

    If you are unwilling to grapple with the details of this offender and/or unable to quit your knee-jerk defence of the police persistently ignoring the crimes of predators, just keep your fucking mouth shut.

    Before the first crash, on Aug. 22, 2023, witnesses saw a white sedan with a license plate number registered to Pham pull up beside a 36-year-old woman. She shrugged off the vehicle and began to run away when the car “sped up and hit [her] causing her to fly over the vehicle and land on the ground hard,” charging documents state. The driver then sped away.

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      7 months ago

      Except people have disagreed with my statements?

      I’m not talking about the article, I’ve already discussed that in other threads. Of course they fucked up and should have more aggressively pursued Pham.

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        7 months ago

        You’re on the wrong thread. I don’t care that you got here because you’re an idle blabbermouth who prefers spouting words to reading them. It’s well past time for you to fuck off.

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          7 months ago

          Idk why you’re so mad, we literally agree on this? And I read the article, dude.