This is about something much deeper than that.
Three months ago, on August 15th, 2024, at approximately 4:30 in the afternoon, this young woman was driving her vehicle, a white 2024 Range Rover Sport, Rhode Island license plate TH4582, worth over $120,000.
She was driving it recklessly through the Elmwood neighborhood here in Providence.
Not just speeding, mind you.
We are talking about going 70 mph in a 25 mph zone.
She was doing 70 on Cranston Street between Haskins Avenue and Broad Street.
This is a residential area where children play, where families walk their dogs, and where elderly people cross the street to get their mail.
But it gets worse, much worse, when she was pulled over by officer Daniel Martinez, badge number 347, an 18-year veteran of the Providence Police Department at the intersection of Cranston Street and Haskins Avenue.
She didn’t show remorse.
She didn’t show concern.
She didn’t even show basic human decency.
According to the police report in front of me, case number PR2024084582, and I’m reading this verbatim when officer Martinez approached her vehicle at 437 p.m. and asked her if she knew why she was being pulled over.
Her exact words were, “Do you know who my father is? He owns half the city.
I can have your badge by tomorrow morning.
” Now, I have to be honest with you.
When I read that, I had to put these papers down and take a moment.
