re: LSP release Lacy info in reference to Lacy attorney misinformation

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I'm not defending his driving. That's an issue unto itself. But the narrative that he caused the wreck isn't supported by this video. We can't see the wreck, but we know for a fact, based on where the wreck happened and where we see Lacy's car at the moment of impact, that he was more than 70 yards away.

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I’m not sure you comprehend just how short 70 yards is when driving, much less driving 60+ on a two lane road.

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Stop. that's not how traffic laws work. A driver that triggers a chain of events leading to a crash will ALWAYS be held liable. And the only reason you GAF is because he played football at LSU.

His attorney is not claiming he is "partially liable". He saying he is completely without blame and accusing the LSP and DAs office of corruption. Now we have the CBC getting involved and accusations of racism. I have to live in this community.

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First of all, multiple people can be held liable. Secondly, how do you prove he caused a chain of events just because he was doing something wrong? Was there any logical reason for this woman to be driving distracted and slamming into someone because someone else was driving recklessly?

And I didn't say anything about what his lawyer is claiming. I don't care. And regardless of who you blame, there is corruption when you have an officer trying to create a false statement. Why do you need a false statement, if you are conducting a proper investigation?

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He says on his written statement both occurred....

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What written statement? The one he refused to sign and likely didn’t even write which we also don’t have the body cam of for some reason?

He was guilty, he felt bad about it, then he wigged out with a gun.

Move on.

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I’m not sure you comprehend just how short 70 yards is when driving, much less driving 60+ on a two lane road.

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yeah, when you are on a two lane highway, and you see a vehicle in your lane quickly getting closer, it is scary...and Lacy looked like he was going 70+ at one point...

Going that fast and illegally crossing the center line in an area with businesses and lots of traffic is extremely dangerous...

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He says on his written statement both occurred....

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You mean the written statement he refuse to sign?

Look, he likely braked but didn’t full on slam on his brakes like the women claimed. The point is the officer forced the statement on him, actually wrote the statement for him which he than refused to sign.

In the end, that is attempted coercion by the officer and falsifying witness statements.

The LSP needs to address that publicly or people will have little faith in them. You as an officer of the law don’t get to write a statement for someone and then pressure them to sign it as their own. It happens way too often and shows the narrative is more important than the truth and people’s rights.

From all the details reported so far, one could conclude that…..

Appears that, Lacy (Veh 1) traveling south is passing several cars & 18 wheeler, while in the wrong lane of travel.

Prior to Veh 1 (Lacy) completing the pass of all vehicles, Veh 2 (Gold truck) traveling north sees Lacy in his lane of travel and rather than stay in their lane, takes evasive action and exits the roadway to the right,

Veh 3 (Funyon eating lady that may have been tailgating) traveling north following Veh 2 (gold truck) notices the sudden departure of Veh 2 (gold truck) to the right shoulder.
Either in reaction to the gold truck slowing and veering off to the right and/or seeing Lacy in her lane (or both), and due to her sudden shock of about to rear end the gold truck, her immediate reaction was to turn her vehicle (#3) into the southbound lane of travel and into the path of Veh 4 (deceased Marine vehicle)

Veh 4 traveling south in the southbound lane strikes Veh 3.

The crash takes place in front of Veh 1 (Lacy) as he is hard braking to slow down in order to get into his proper lane (southbound) to complete his illegal pass of ALL the vehicles. Veh 1 (Lacy) then drives around the crash site and speeds away southbound.

The “but for’ rule - But for Vehicle 1 driving reckless by speeding and passing in a no passing zone, there is a higher than not probability that the actions of vehicle 2 and Veh 3 never occur and Veh 4 is not involved.

Now vehicle 3 (Funyon lady) also bears some responsibility if she was in fact tailgating. Still, “but for” Lacy’s actions, gold truck doesn’t slow and exit roadway which caused Funyon lady to take action.

Lacy bears the greatest responsibility followed by Funyon lady.
Again, “but for” Lacy’s actions, it would appear the crash never happens.

The LSP trooper’s actions were based on eyewitness reports. The Astros shirt guy that was driving the 18 wheeler stated that the gold truck had to slam on his brakes. The trooper did not put those words in his mouth.

Trooper speaking to gold truck driver (1) the attorney only provided a small snip-it of the conversation they had. We do not know any other part of their conversation. From the snip-it, one could be biased and say the Trooper tried to put words in gold truck drivers mouth. Again what does any other video show. The trooper was acting on direct eyewitness reports that the gold truck slammed his brakes.

I have no skin in this game. Just giving an unbiased assessment of the information (videos) out there at this time.

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I’m not sure you comprehend just how short 70 yards is when driving, much less driving 60+ on a two lane road.

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I did the math this morning. 100 yards at 60MPH is 3 seconds and some change.

And that’s with one moving vehicle. 2 moving vehicles at the same speed would be half that. And that’s the full time to come to a collision. It’s even less time than that to react and avoid a collision. We are looking at close to sub second reaction times here.

And Kyren is from Thibodaux. He knows this stretch of road, and he knows he shouldn't be passing people up right there. Anyone with a brain knows that.
I'm an aggressive driver, most people would say. I've passed plenty of people up inbetween thibodaux and vacherie over the last 25 years, but never have i even thought about passing someone up in that little stretch where Kyren did. I don't think people realize how dangerous it is to be passing people right there, and why his actions elicited such unpredictable responses from oncoming traffic.