The Thin Blue Line
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:11:04
The officer falls in the street
and he was in the first traffic lane.

:11:08
He lay there and bled to death.
:11:11
So she's out of the car.
:11:12
She empties her pistol
at the fleeing suspect...

:11:15
and she runs to his aid.
:11:20
Procedure says you grab the radio
and call for an ambulance.

:11:23
Common sense would tell you that.
But what do you do?

:11:27
And that time, she's so... just tore down.
:11:31
And the blood.
An enormous amount of blood.

:11:40
How do we hold her responsible
for not following procedure?

:11:46
But the main thing was, she
couldn't remember the license number.

:12:05
When we started putting facts together
on how much information we had...

:12:10
from the leads we had,
we found out we didn't have anything.

:12:15
The only thing that we knew
we were looking for was a blue Vega.

:12:20
Probably every Vega that was
registered in the state of Texas...

:12:24
was stopped and checked.
:12:27
We had people calling the office...
:12:30
saying, "I've got a Vega and it's not blue.
:12:33
"But would you come out
and be sure to check it.

:12:35
"Be sure it's not mine, because
I don't want to get stopped anymore.

:12:39
"I'm afraid."
:12:45
If you're the investigator
assigned to the murder...

:12:48
you get frustrated with other witnesses.
:12:50
But when you got a police officer
that witnessed it...

:12:53
you expect that they would know
a little more than she knew.

:12:58
Procedure.
:12:59
When there's a two-person unit,
when either one approaches the car...


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