Outrage

Given my low opinion of our government, it takes a lot to outrage me, but this manages it: Jim Treacher, a writer at the Daily Caller in Washington, DC, was crossing the street (with the light) when he was hit by a car driven by a State Department security agent making an illegal left turn. It appears that the car left the scene of the accident without stopping, but the story is not entirely clear on that point.

Then the State Department arranged for the DC police to issue Treacher a jaywalking citation in his hospital bed! We know that the State Department was involved with the citation because they sent an official along with the policeman.

Then, to add a coda to the insult already added to the (literal) injury, when they finally issued a brief statement, it concluded:

At all times, Diplomatic Security acted responsibly and appropriately and displayed due diligence in caring for the injured.

In other words, they will protect their own and to hell with all of us.

UPDATE: The story is still not entirely clear about what the driver did, but he did not leave the scene without stopping.

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