We are lucky no black men were murdered.
It was Thursday night when Ripley called police with a dramatic and bizarre tale: A light-blue car forced her car off the road near a West Kendall Home Depot. Two black men were inside. One of men jumped out, she told Miami-Dade police, and demanded drugs.
When she told them she didn’t have any, the man — armed with a knife — took the child, her cell phone and a tablet and drove off.
Video surveillance footage showed her pushing the boy “into the canal” during the first attempt to kill the boy, at about 7:20 p.m. according to the police report. The good Samaritan rescued the boy and even offered to call police. Exactly how she explained the boy being in the water was unclear.
During questioning, Ripley eventually recanted her kidnapping story, police said. She admitted that at about 8:30 p.m., in her second attempt, she “led the victim to the canal where he drowned. She states he’s going to be in a better place.”
She better not get a light sentence.
Flip the page for the cops talking about her arrest.