This whole story stinks of cover-up. Very disappointing to hear this about the PSP.
Don't be disappointed in the PSP, they were cleared as was The Game Commission bulldozer operator.
I'm not going to get to embedded in this and make this a political discussion but it is difficult not to as this is just a political discussion. Fake news is not always just by telling falsehoods, most fake news is omission of facts to sway the reader in one direction, often the wrong direction as you can see by the responses here to one News account.
I am a retired newspaper reporter and old school back in the days when we would not print something unless we could confirm it three different ways on the record and it was bipartisan reporting, those days are long, long gone, half the stuff you see on TV and read is simply made up for political agenda. Again fake news isn't just lying about the facts it's also a ommitting crucial facts.
Keep in mind Pennsylvania now has a far-left Democratic governor who is in favor of legalizing marijuana for recreational use. That's a whole different story but there is a faction in the state supporting that notion.
As you know the state went Republican in the last national presidential election and I believe it will again in 2020.
Apparently there was communication between the helicopter and the ground, be kind of silly if he was up there without communication with the ground huh? The state just has not released the transcripts or audio of that communication. A contingency plan in an event like this is often body cams are turned off. When there's a death like this the police are ready for a lawsuit.
This was a well-planned out raid, it was in the most rural area of Berks County and a bulldozer was instrumental in clearing brush, to say it went in blind as the lawyers contend isn't exactly true, the Corporal in charge of the raid was on front of the bulldozer and never saw the suspect deliberately hiding and evading police in the heavy brush, a suspect who I might add was on methadone, amphetamines and marijuana at the time of his death as shown by toxicology.
He was growing the marijuana on Game Commission property.
It's my belief that this lawsuit is going nowhere. The PSP which is a pretty straight organization did their investigation and cleared the Troopers and The Game Commission.
Being a criminal is a bit*h and does take some inherent risk while you're committing your crimes.
Whether you're a drug addict or not or support legalizing illegal drugs is another story and only plays into this story through the Press and the attorneys in an attempt to garnish sympathy for this Criminal. I like the Grateful Dead too just like the suspect did but I've never been charged with a crime.
It was very unfortunate that this happened. I feel for his family and his friends and equate him to a car thief, another relatively minor crime, having a fatal crash while evading police pursuit. It happens all the time and wouldn't have happened if the car thief pulled over and gave themselves up.
This guy would not have died if he had just put his hands up in the air and surrendered, taking his probation, community service or some other minor slap on the wrist in a sympathetic liberal justice system.
It's very unfortunate that this happened. Very sad.
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