Colorado police bind woman on railroad tracks, let her get hit by a locomotive

The Kansas City Star reports that police in Platteville, Colorado went full-on Western movie villain on a woman following an alleged road-rage incident. After pulling the 20-year-old woman over near some railroad tracks, the police parked their own car on the railroad tracks, and threw the woman in the back seat of the squad car while they went to search her car — supposedly for a firearm, which is honestly confusing, because I was under the impression that this country was basically throwing out all oversight on firearms. — Read the rest