Sahara Dula, 24, is a New England Faculty prison justice graduate who needs to concentrate on “disaster communication.” In that case, she has a bit to be taught after deliberately hitting a police officer along with her Lexus after which declaring “F— these cops, it’s a lesson to him.”
A video captures Dula driving the incorrect approach on Park Avenue close to East 71st Avenue round 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday when an officer approaches the car to show it round. She then floored the black Lexus and hit the officer.
She was later discovered to be excessive on marijuana. She informed investigators “I informed the cop I wished to go straight, and he wouldn’t transfer, so I hit him. I did it on goal. F— these cops! He wouldn’t transfer!”
The wounded officer suffered a damaged leg and in depth bruising. Nevertheless, Manhattan Assistant District Lawyer Lucy Shephard didn’t cost Dula with tried homicide. As an alternative, she’s going to face an array of costs for first-degree tried assault, tried aggravated assault upon a police officer, second-degree assault, second-degree reckless endangerment and working a car whereas capacity impaired by medicine and reckless driving.
Dula has a report of previous arrests together with a prison mischief arrest in March 2022 after destroying property. The fees have been dropped. She was additionally arrested not less than twice in New Hampshire, together with an arrest in 2020 for failing to cease at an intersection within the city of Henniker and placing one other car. She then fled the scene. She was additionally arrested for easy assault after an incident at Harmony Hospital.
There are studies that Dula has been beneath remedy for psychological sickness, together with doable bipolar sickness. It’s tough for courts to stability such parts. This can be a one who has gone to highschool and reportedly helps her mom and household whereas scuffling with psychological sickness. Alternatively, she simply admitted to deliberately placing down an officer.
It isn’t clear if the protection will argue the psychological sickness as a protection and argue that she was experiencing an uncontrolled episode resulting from treatment issues. But, how is a decide to deal with such a declare? Dula just isn’t institutionalized resulting from a view that she is ready to operate in society. The protection may argue that the episode confirmed that she requires institutionalization and remedy, however that she was not accountable for her actions.
