This news story seems to belong with the video.

http://tinyurl.com/2axn6t

"Phoenix police Chief Jack Harris suggested to reporters at the scene that the subject of the chase could be charged in connection with the helicopter crash."

That ought to make an interesting argument if such a charge ever gets to court.

Yeah, charging the "guy in question" as being responsible for the deaths of the reporters/pilots would be.. a whole new can of worms. Sure, he's responsible of [X number of crimes], but being responsible for the deaths of two news choppers colliding? Doesn't sound very likely.

"If he had never committed the crime, we would have never sent our gas-guzzling helicopters out to report it!"

I love our justice system.

Any death occuring during the comission of an unlawful act is criminally negligent homicide.

"The circumstance is the death during the commission of the unlawful act and the causation is any act that triggers a chain of events, which lead to the death of another person."

I think this post is called into question under rule 3 in the posting guidelines. It still is the video of a death even if it is "presented as a limited portion of a reputable broadcast news report."

"Any death occuring during the comission of an unlawful act is criminally negligent homicide."

That just won't fly.

You accidentally run a stop sign, down the street at another intersection, a person gets run over by a truck because they were watching you instead of watching the road.

Now you're a murderer?

the news reporter just ignored what happened?

Holy crap! When the woman reporter is saying "We don't know what just happened. . . " you can hear the chopper reporter screaming to his death. That's just horrific.

In addition, why in the world is he up there reporting anyway when she just kept talking over his report with her own report on the images? She's insufferable.

I think this post is called into question under rule 3 in the posting guidelines. It still is the video of a death even if it is "presented as a limited portion of a reputable broadcast news report."

oh.....come.....on.....

seriously? if anything, we see the death of the camera... period. it is NOT a video OF a death. did you see anyone die? i didn't. i saw some jerknut running from the cops, and then static. get over it.

No you didnt see it but if you paid attention you did hear someone screaming, while falling to there death.

wait...what...snuff anybody? Because it is not directly shown, it's ok?

let's just *blog about this...

Sending this video to Sift Talk for discussion (sent by Gold Star member InvaderSil)

One vote for not snuff... as I've repeatedly said, in order for it to be snuff, the video needs to have been produced with the intent of capturing a death on film, and somehow profiting from its distribution. This was a horrible accident, no doubt, and also hard to watch ifn' yer sensitive to stuff like that, but, in my book... not snuff.

Send it back. Not even close to what snuff is.
http://www.videosift.com/talk/Snuff-videos#leavecomment

totally agree with raven, I'm for return.

staying in topic, obviously agree with pyrex. totally nonsense charghing him about this dumb mistake of someone else.

send it back.

Photographs on http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070728/ap_on_re_us/helicopters_collide_scene_1;_ylt=AkQUy_DRmrz2xDuitl1yZSNsaMYA
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I'd hardly call this snuff compared to some other things sifted which have never been questioned as such. (That being said, I probably didn't need to see it.)

As for the pursued suspect, I think any possible charges in relation to the helicopter deaths would be classified under 'felony murder'. In many states it is often legally equated with 1st degree murder, regardless of intention or circumstances of death (outside of attaching causality of the death directly to the actions of the accused). That last bit is key - as a couple of folks pointed out, you would not likely be held responsible for a person dying of a heart attack because they were shocked by how fast you drove through an intersection while evading capture. However, if you ran someone over while evading capture, even if they were "not in a crosswalk", or even if you simply caused another car to run someone over due to "reckless driving while evading capture", you're hosed.

So the tragic race car accidents that are caught on tape can get pulled but this people vote to keep? I guess my use of "snuff" was the wrong category. I should have said death instead.

No matter as it is apparent that it will be not worth the effort to attempt to sway anybody on changing their position on this. *return it to where it came from...

Returning this video from Sift Talk (Returned by gold star member InvaderSil)