DPS Helo Crash in Arizona

[derg]

Yes please. I enjoy being talked down to by a sanctimonious blowhard.

Bruv, you’re crashing-out hard. I feel like I need to count the number of pills in that bottle of psychotropics to make sure you’re taking them. Sheesh.

 

[bp]

You're writing is unintentionally dumb

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[FlyingAccountant]

Not really any different than when they charge the suspect in a high speed chase if a cop crashes and dies

Right, I don't know what AZ state law is, but in some states, the suspect can be charged with murder if a law enforcement officer dies in the process of apprehending them, even if the suspect isn't directly responsible. Often used in the context of an officer dying in a car wreck during a police chase.

 

[Pilot Fighter]

If he shot the helicopter down, that would be appropriate. If the crash was an accident of some kind, then that kind of doesn’t jive.

The law is different in every state. In KY, a perpetrator can be charged with murder if a person dies as a result of the commission of a felony, even if the death was unintentional or unforeseeable.

That’s a pretty low bar.

 

[derg]

Right, I don't know what AZ state law is, but in some states, the suspect can be charged with murder if a law enforcement officer dies in the process of apprehending them, even if the suspect isn't directly responsible. Often used in the context of an officer dying in a car wreck during a police chase.

This is true. Not really sure how I feel about that, like the “Stupid Motorist Law”.

So someone miscalculates a threat, needs help, is going to get in trouble if they ask for it, so they’re going to exhaust all measures before REALLY NEEDING IT, making for a more harrowing rescue….

Hmm….

 

[Autothrust Blue]

If he shot the helicopter down, that would be appropriate. If the crash was an accident of some kind, then that kind of doesn’t jive.

State and county prosecutors are basically Ricky Bobby as far as "meh, I'mma charge it initially, it makes for a great exclamation point with the local press that hoover up police blotter stories like blow off a hooker's ass (I can totally say ass here) and I can always just reverse course on it later."

This is true. Not really sure how I feel about that, like the “Stupid Motorist Law”.

So someone miscalculates a threat, needs help, is going to get in trouble if they ask for it, so they’re going to exhaust all measures before REALLY NEEDING IT, making for a more harrowing rescue….

Hmm….

Given how many departments seem quite happy to expose people not ordinarily involved to serious or even deadly peril to stop a pursuit I'm inclined to agree. It's quite similar to "I created my own exigent circumstances then had to go pewpewpewpewpew to extricate myself from them, but the person I shot is still the assailant, somehow."

Where have I seen that lately?