An independent investigative report determined that the officers who stopped Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie failed to do their duties by not pressing any charges
taken days before Petito’s disappearance has said he feels “desperately fucked over” about her killing.
The report included an interview with Officer Pratt, who clearly remains traumatized after his failure to prevent Petito’s death. “I’m desperately fucked over that she got killed. I really am,” said the officer. “I would have done anything to stop it if I would have known that was coming.” The report found Pratt and fellow Officer Daniel Robbins “both believed at the time they were making the right decision based on the totality of the circumstances that were presented.” It refused to blame the officers for Petito’s death, noting that it happened weeks after and several hundred miles away from their Aug. 12 encounter in Moab, outside the entrance to Arches National Park.
“I do not find that they enforced the law,” wrote Capt. Brandon Ratcliffe of the Price City Police Department in Utah. “They responded to a confirmed domestic-violence incident and they had evidence showing an assault had taken place. The statements of all those involved, along with the evidence presented, provided probable cause for an arrest.”
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