I thought whole initial response from the police was weird. They went out of their way to basically say she jumped out in front of the car, and that the accident was unavoidable. They even told us that the women was homeless, which I viewed as a subtle way to hint that maybe she wasn’t in her right mind.
It just felt like they were saying everything possible to absolve Uber, in a way that’s very different from how most crashes are treated.
100% agree. The Police Chief even said the video would "potentially shift the blame to the victim herself, rather than the vehicle."
If that's not very strange language to use for a public servant describing a video that shows a fatal vehicle-vs-pedestrian accident, I don't know what is.
I'm not in the US so I don't know, but people in another thread were making comments that that is often how it is handled in the US, the crash victim is blamed somehow. It was implied by one person that police want to avoid paperwork.
It just felt like they were saying everything possible to absolve Uber, in a way that’s very different from how most crashes are treated.