JORDAN STEINKE: Keep your hands above your head.
Don't move.
YARENI RIO-GONZALEZ: What's going on?
Why am I being arrested?
JORDAN STEINKE: We'll explain everything in a second.
- [INAUDIBLE]
YARENI RIO-GONZALEZ: What's going on?
Ma'am, what's going on?
JORDAN STEINKE: I'll tell you in a second.
Take a seat.
YARENI RIO-GONZALEZ: So confused.
Can I get my cell phone--
JORDAN STEINKE: I will get your cell phone for you.
Take a seat.
[TRAIN HORN BLARING]
[BEEP]
- Whether or not Officer Steinke knew
the tracks were there, whether she knew about the risk
and decided to consciously disregard that risk,
is what this case is all about.
Did she act recklessly?
There's nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
The presence of those railroad tracks is an obvious fact.
But the mere presence of those tracks,
even the existence of this accident,
is deceptive, because that is not what
legally matters in this case.
- Put your hands out the window.
- The court will see and hear evidence from which the court
can infer the defendant's mental state at the time she elected
to place Yareni Rios-Gonzalez in the Platteville patrol car
parked on the railroad tracks, instead of her own patrol
unit that was safely parked to the west
of the railroad tracks.
JORDAN STEINKE: Dispatch, suspect needs first aid.
Status, medical emergent.
The suspect was in the vehicle that was hit by the train.