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An Oklahoma City woman was shot and killed by police as she attempted to drive away from a drug bust and hit an officer on foot earlier this month. Karen Cifuentes, 19, becomes the 33rd person to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this year.
According to The Oklahoman, citing law enforcement documents, undercover police witnessed what they thought to be a drug deal in the parking lot of a liquor store. As officers approached, Cifuentes backed the car out of the parking lot at a high rate of speed, mowing down metal poles and jumping the curb as she fled.
The reporting does not make clear whether the undercover officers ever identified themselves as police.
As she drove away down a nearby surface street, she hit an officer on foot, who shot her "as she was accelerating." The reporting does not make clear whether the officer shot her before or after she hit him. An earlier report from KFOR Newschannel 4, however, says Cifuentes struck the officer first and that the officer suffered "minor injuries."
Cifuentes was apparently the girlfriend of passenger Juan Manuel Aguilera Perez, 24, who reportedly threw a bag of cocaine from the car as the pair fled. Perez is now charged with first degree murder, possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, and possession of drug proceeds ($400 in cash).
Because Perez's was allegedly in the midst of the commission of a felony -- drug sales -- when police shot Cifuentes, under Oklahoma law he can -- and has been -- charged with murder in her death.
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I personal see this cop jumping into the path of on going car under investigation then shooting as for cause This death is not her boy friend fault , it is the drug war and there answer to the drug war the cops COPS who kill those who flee frighten form arrest . what we have here 33 citizen again this year where by police have come to cause there deaths because of drug war law and many citizen refusing to obey law but is this reason to kill in there eyes it is , , The law enforcement who Continue to give out death sentences to people who deal in drugs are thugs and themselves should be jailed for there assaults running down even killing citizen over a buy is and was wrong, Far form honorable effect , or reasonable decision standing out in road with gun aiming it at a person fleeing then to shoot that person fleeing over a drug crime is outrageous even to consider it an assulted , by car on the officer .. When all this should have , could have been handle later , this is plan for only implement of a police state fearing police when orders are more importance then life even of so called criminal act Now mother is dead ,future of hre children and some over what few drugs , you police all of you should be place in jail
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