re: Teen charged in crash that killed 5 family members...

technically he was reckless. I just don't think it is in good taste for the state to shake down a teen over 300 dollars. I don't think we need that 300 that bad and this is clearly a outlier situation. This type of crash is rare and all the circumstances should be taken into consideration and LSP should have decided to not give the ticket. However, they are a heartless machine that collects revenue. IMO they should change from protect and serve to collect and rape.

Falling asleep has to be against some law, and reckless fits the best. I feel terrible for the kid, I just think if you don't at least charge him with something, even if it gets thrown out, that you're setting a bad precedent

"Oh, he just accidentally killed most of his immediately family? Let's see if we can milk a few bucks out of this teenager by writing him a ticket."

- Louisiana State Police

What if the ticket has to be written due to SOP but will also be thrown out later?

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Just can't comprehend why they let a 16 y/o drive at night, on interstate, without close supervision.

And nobody buckled. ....just damn

Sooooo much wrong with this tragedy

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agreed it is extremely tragic. It could have been avoided. I don't know why you would let a young driver go unsupervised on a long trip like this at night. Also seems like the family would be buckled up but my guess was since it was night time they were sleeping and we unbuckled because it is more comfortable to sleep like that. Then LSP comes in at the end drives home a elbow to the face of the kid.

Bad call by LEO.

How many people here haven't had a cop let you slide? The kid just lost his family. Now the poor kid has more solid proof that it was his fault, when in fact, it was his parents fault.

it might be thrown out but sometimes procedures need to be bent depending on circumstances like this. This story just gives the already battered image of cops a worse image.

if you are poaching then you are taking something away from the citizens of LA. Seriously, you can't think who you hurt by poaching? if someone poaches a rare specious then they are depriving citizens of the ability to see natural LA wildlife.

There was no reason outside of SOP to give this ticket to this teen. The only people truly affected by this are the family members of this kid.

no the citizens have a right to see those animals. No one owns them but if you poach then you are hurting the citizens of la.

Sometimes procedure needs to be broken for common sense. I would rather some discretion than robots applying law. There is a middle ground between using only emotion to make decisions and always following procedure. How often does a single car crash happen like this one? it must not be all that often if this was special enough to pop up all over the news. So instead of just acting like a mindless robot, LSP should have taken into account all the variables of this crash. 1. this kid shouldn't have been driving. 2 the parents shouldn't have been sleeping. 3. He flipped the car and it didn't hit any other drivers. 4. the kid has been through enough we don't need to hustle him out of more money. This is an extreme circumstance and doesn't create precedent. Sometimes procedure needs to be less rigid. I promise you chaos isn't going to come down on the state if a state trooper uses some common sense and says you know this kid has had a horrible life changing day, I don't need to tack on a stupid meaningless ticket. Plus lets not act like cops always follow SOP anyways. Plenty of warnings and shite like that are given out so hiding behind SOP in this instance is just being scared to say we only care about collecting revenue.