There’s two sides to every story and it looks like Miriam Carey’s family wants the world to know hers.
Carey, 34, was shot by police officers after attempting to drive through the White House and Capitol Hill barriers last Monday. Now her family, who appeared on NBC’s Today Show, are saying that the cops overreacted and that Carey was not delusional, despite media reports.
Her sisters also disputed the accounts of officials that Carey was under the delusion that President Barack Obama was communicating with her.
“What I do see is that perhaps maybe my sister was a little afraid being surrounded by officers with their guns drawn,” Valarie Carey said in an interview on NBC’s “Today” show. “My sister was fleeing. She was trying to figure out how to get out of there.”
The other sister, Amy Carey-Jones, suggests police overreacted or were negligent.
“I feel that things could have been handled a lot differently,” she said. “We still feel that there was maybe another story than what we’re being told.”
According to the Associated Press, Miriam’s concerned family has been on the media trail defending their slain sister. In a recent interview with CNN, the family’s lawyer insisted that Carey isn’t to blame for her death.
In a CNN interview on Monday morning, Eric Sanders, the lawyer representing the two sisters, rejected the suggestion that Miriam Carey is partly responsible for her own death.
“She didn’t contribute to anything,” he said. “She had absolutely every right to be in the nation’s capital.”
The issue is how police handled the matter, he said.
On Thursday, a Facebook page in Carey’s honor was created to voice opinions and mourn the Brooklyn native. Police are still looking into the case with more questions than answers and investigating if the officers used excessive force.
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