A loser felon on parole flees a traffic stop and leads police on a high-speed chase in Phoenix, Arizona the other day. The criminal has a busy afternoon running past police roadblocks and merrily carjacking people along the way. No less than 5, I repeat, 5 news helicopters decide to play paparazzi and follow the action live from the air. Two of them, jockeying with each other for the best shots, manage to collide and crash, tragically killing four people. Fortunately, no one on the ground was injured. Now, strangely, the Phoenix police chief is placing the blame for the crash on the felon, not on the pilots:
"The Phoenix police chief says the suspect in the car chase could face charges related to the fatal crash."
How is this possibly the suspect's fault? Don't get me wrong here. I'm not defending his actions; he's got a lot to answer for, and I hope that he spends the next decade or so in prison for terrorizing multiple people, but I just don't get how the chief justifies assigning blame for the crash onto him as well. The perp didn't put a gun to those pilots' heads and make them go play live-shot competition with each other. The pilots decided to go up there in order to chase the news dollar, so they should accept the responsibility for their lack of attention regarding the other choppers in the same airspace.
Maybe this incident will cut down on the number of times Fox News and MSNBC cut away to boring, hourlong "breaking news" car chases, as I'm sure most people just aren't interested. I know I'm not.
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