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Woman’s Car Gets Stolen And Crashed. Then Cop Tells Her The Thief Won’t Be Charged With A Crime: 'Yet My Car Is Totaled'

A woman whose car was stolen, crashed, abandoned, and vandalized with her own lipstick says police told her the five people who took it would face no criminal charges because they had just been “joyriding.”

The 34-second clip framing the experience as a discovery about US criminal law has drawn responses from lawyers and victims of similar incidents that conflict with what she said the officer on her case told her.

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