Cops Drive Head-on Into Car With Mom And Kids, She Says. They Thought It Was Someone Else

Jamee Kimble was dri­ving in on Oct. 1 when she and her kids were struck head-on by a police car going around 10 mph in Virginia. It wasn’t an accident.

“They had me hold both of my hands out the car win­dow while they point­ed a gun at me scream­ing that I could become a threat if I moved, in front of my kids,” Kimble said in an Instagram post doc­u­ment­ing the con­fronta­tion in Fairfax County.

Kimble was then hand­cuffed and put into the back of the police vehi­cle, she said.

Kimble had been at the hos­pi­tal hav­ing her Cesarean sec­tion birth just days before the encounter with police, which she said was her ali­bi for the ques­tions they had asked her.

In the end, police pub­licly con­firmed it: Kimble was not who they were look­ing for.

So why, exact­ly, was she caught in the mid­dle of a felony traf­fic stop? Police released a state­ment after Kimble post­ed her video on Instagram, which gar­nered thou­sands of com­ments and views.

Fairfax County police got an alert around 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 1 of a “felony vehi­cle with occu­pants list­ed as armed and dan­ger­ous” trav­el­ing in the area of Richmond Highway and South Kings Highway, offi­cers said in a news release.

Police found the vehi­cle and ran into the front bumper of the car at an “esti­mat­ed speed under 10 mph,” then detained the occu­pants — which were Kimble, two chil­dren and anoth­er woman, the release said.

Officials con­firmed that the vehi­cle Kimble was inside was involved in an inci­dent in Arlington County, prompt­ing the traf­fic stop, the release said. However, when offi­cers real­ized that nei­ther Kimble, nor any oth­er occu­pants of the car, were involved in the inci­dent and did not own the car, they were released.

Kimble says that being released doesn’t mit­i­gate what happened.

“I still am very angry and, more than any­thing, hurt because I teach my chil­dren that the police are sup­posed to pro­tect us, and that if they need any­thing they can call them for help,” Kimble told NBC Washington. “This was a very trau­mat­ic sit­u­a­tion, and for a long time, prob­a­bly for­ev­er for me and my 5‑year-old, this will for­ev­er affect us…“I could have lost my life. My kids could have lost their lives. Luckily, every­one in the car was in a seat belt.”

Kimble told NBC that her 1‑year-old son, her 5‑year-old daugh­ter and a friend were head­ing to Walmart to get groceries.

In the video, Kimble demands that the offi­cers be fired.

The Fairfax County Police Department ini­ti­at­ed an admin­is­tra­tive review of the inci­dent, accord­ing to the release.