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Originally posted by Jim Cesiro
Like I said I suppose I had been doing an 80 in a 70 and a cop decided to flip a u-turn and go get me in my shiney red Porsche. He miscalculates oncoming traffic and gets hit by a semi and killed. Am I responsible?
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According to the copper, yes, silly as it sounds. You were "directly responsible" for the cop's death. After all, if you weren't driving 76 in a 70mph zone, he wouldn't have turned around.
Seems to me, every time a police officer dies in the line of duty, one person or several persons must be convicted of manslaughter or murder. Someone is directly reponsible for the officer's death, right? Sounds like the courts have a lot of catching up to do.