Luz Gonzalez video: Two years after a hit-and-run driver killed a 4-year-old, there is little ‘Justice for Luz’
Two years after a hit-and-run driver fatally ran over 4-year-old Luz Gonzalez on a Brooklyn sidewalk, the borough’s district attorney has announced a charge of “failure to exercise due care” — minor charges that don’t do enough to hold the driver accountable, according to an attorney.
On June 24, 2018, motorist Jeanette Maria backed out of an illegal parking lot, which the city later ordered to be shut down, outside a Bushwick laundromat, and then accelerated into Gonzalez and her mother on the sidewalk, killing the little girl and injuring her mom. The horrific incident was captured on video, and clearly shows Maria’s car bumping up and down as it rolls over Gonzalez, according to attorney Steve Vaccaro.
That evidence should have been enough to charge Maria with a fatal hit-and-run because any reasonable person should have had “cause to know” that she ran over someone — the legal standard for charging such cases, Vaccaro said.
Read more: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/06/24/two-years-after-a-hit-and-run-driver-killed-a-4-year-old-there-is-little-justice-for-luz/
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