Kannapolis Cyclist's death leads to questions

As some of you already know, I'm 47, live in Kannapolis, and on about a once-or-twice-weekly basis commute between Kannapolis and my workplace in Charlotte. On Friday of last week, around 5 a.m., as I was myself bicycling to Charlotte, Ms. Moss, a Kannapolis resident, was killed on her bike by a hit-and-run driver. The story is that the driver, later identified as Ms. Galbraith, stopped her car, got out, looked at Ms. Moss lying on the ground, returned to her car, removed Ms. Moss' mangled bike from the front hood, called out to bystanders that she was calling 911, got in her car and drove off. Only after a police search that located Ms. Moss at her workplace did she "turn herself in" sometime Friday afternoon.
The story does not end there. The magistrate, feeling perhaps especially forgiving that day, released Ms. Galbraith on felony charges, but without bond, and let her sign a paper stating she would not leave Cabarrus County. While Ms. Moss' family was left to mourn her death (funeral on Wednesday of this week at 3:00 p.m.), Ms. Galbraith was at liberty to spend the weekend however she desired.
Maybe it helps to know Ms. Galbraith works as a waitress at the Red Pig Cafe, located conveniently near the Cabarrus County courthouse and familiar to court officials such as the magistrate. (She reportedly had a DWI last year that the media hasn't mentioned just yet.) Maybe it helps to know Ms. Galbraith is white while her victim is black. Maybe it helps to know that, in this area, it doesn't matter what you know; it matters who you know, and what color your skin happens to be. And maybe it helps to know that, if you hit and kill a cyclist in Cabarrus County, you've got a sympathetic friend in the Cabarrus County courthouse.
In my humble opinion, cyclists anywhere should be speaking out about this outrage. Don't let this story fade away. Watch what happens in the media in the next few days, and if you don't see any further mention of it there, start asking some obvious questions. Chief among which needs to be, "Just how safe are cyclists in Cabarrus County???"