It has no consequences for the Swedish police officer who pulled a gun on a female motorist earlier this summer.
I thought, "He will shoot me if I stay here."
This is how the woman, who was stopped by an officer with a drawn gun earlier this summer, explains to the media Smålänningen .
But the officer did nothing wrong by drawing his weapon and thus acting threateningly towards the woman.
Swedish police have now decided that. Not even if, according to her own statement, the woman was so scared that she hurried to leave the scene.
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– He brakes in the middle of the road and gets out of the car and points his weapon at me. I thought, "He will shoot me if I stay here." He had such anger in his eyes. I panicked and ran away, says the woman to the media.
The police defend the officer by saying that he thought she was speeding up to 170 km/h and that she would therefore run him down if he tried to stop her.
According to the police, the case has now ended with the woman having been ticketed for speeding, while the officer has been acquitted of his misconduct.
– The case is closed. The assessment is that the policeman has not done anything wrong, which means that the investigation has shown that he has not acted reprehensibly, acting police chief Anna Blomqvist tells the media.
It is not the first time that an officer has been totally acquitted of otherwise problematic behavior in traffic. Earlier this year, a Danish officer was acquitted, even though he had briefly killed an elderly woman in a Subaru in 2023.
And so there are a number of examples of how the police acquit their own. In August 2005, a police officer at Æro, which is located in the southern Funen o-Hav, was acquitted of drunken driving, as the court did not think it could find evidence of the man's drunkenness behind the wheel.
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