Remember the Police Pursuit & News Helicopter Crash?
Remember that (Phoenix, AZ) police pursuit? The one that was being chased by a news helicopter, said helicopter crashed - killing everyone on board…
A few days ago the Phoenix Police Dept released the 911 (CAD) recording of the pursuit and crash.
It seems the 911 recording has raised questions about the actions of several officers involved in the pursuit.
"…several times during the pursuit supervisors could be heard telling
ground units to, “back off” and “stay back”, during one instance a
ground unit was told to pull over……during this pursuit marked and unmarked units were told more than a dozen times to stay back."
Not a single officer obeyed repeated orders to stand down. Yeh I know - real shocker isn’t it?
When questioned, Phoenix PD stated an internal investigation has been launched. When asked about the investigation they said, "no comment."
The President of the Phoenix Police Union said, “This is a fluid situation, what you saw is real life police work."
I’m not real sure what the hell that has to do with the issue at hand. I’ll give him points though -for combining propaganda and avoidance into one sentence. Very smooth.
Of course the internal investigation is expected to take 2- 3 months. Just long enough for the public to forget about it…
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