South Dakota AG Told 911 He Had ‘No Idea’ What He’d Hit In Fatal Car Crash

The South Dakota Department of Public Safety (DPS) on Tuesday released audio of the 911 call South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg had made on the night of September 12 after he fatally struck a pedestrian named Joe Boever with his car.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1338226
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When asked if Ravnsborg planned to step down, Noem stated that the decision to do so would be the attorney general’s “prerogative.”

When did Bobby Brown change his name to Jason Ravnsborg?

Oh and what is Gov. Noem really in charge of?

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When asked if Ravnsborg planned to step down, Noem stated that the decision to do so would be the attorney general’s “prerogative.”

That’s not a very strong expression of support.

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Season two of Fargo began just this way except the victim was hanging out of the windshield and the woman drove home and parked him in her garage. Strange things happen in the Dakotas and on tv.

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From here:

Sorry SD AG, still not believable.

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Would bet dollars to donuts you can tell how sloshed he is if you listen carefully to the 911 call.

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"When asked if Ravnsborg planned to step down, Noem stated that the decision to do so would be the attorney general’s “prerogative.”

That’s not far off from saying the serial murderer, Jeffrey Dahmer, that it was his prerogative not to eat his victims.

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This is a tragedy on multiple levels. The truth will out…assuming anyone is really looking for it. :frowning:

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I really need to ask. If you hit something with your car hard enough to kill it, whether it’s a deer or a human, how do you not know what you hit? It was IN FRONT OF YOU ON THE ROAD. You had to drive up on it. Even a quick last-second flash will tell you if it’s a deer or human. Those are not easily confused.

This stinks to high heaven. Why hasn’t he been charged yet? Not even “involuntary manslaughter”??

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I imagine that the feel and sound of hitting a deer with your car would be very different from the feel and sound of hitting a man with your car. Especially if you got out of your car and asked it or him if it or him needed help.

I could be wrong. I could be right. Nobody knows.

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Department of Public Safety Secretary Craig Price … told reporters that Ravnsborg’s blood alcohol content was zero [when tested around 1:30 PM the day after the collision].

This BAC reading is meaningless. The accident took place at 10:30 PM and the test was taken about 15 hours later. BAC drops 0.016% on average per hour after drinking has stopped. Ravnsborg could have had a BAC of 0.24% (worst case) at the time of the accident.

Price probably knows it’s meaningless. He’s just trying to make the AG look good.

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What a Lying sack of shit. He had to be drunk to NOT identify a MAN in the middle of the freaking road.

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“I have no idea,” Ravnsborg replied. “It could be. I mean, it was right in the roadway.”

“And I don’t know what it was, but it most definitely wasn’t a person, and he was right in the middle of the road.”

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It looked like a big, drunk deer with a baseball cap on.

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Was Joe a Dem?

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Motorcycle rallies

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Dude looks like he has a constant BAC…

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The article doesn’t mention anything DPS Safety Secretary Price might have said about skid marks or the results of inspecting the AG’s cell phone. To me, those are much more relevant than a 15-hour delayed blood alcohol test that proves exactly nothing.

Not everything has to do with drinking. Lots of accidents stem from speeding and distracted driving.

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Becuz IOKIYAR

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I think it’s a given that he was flying pretty fast on that desolate highway. He always has the built-in excuse that he’s the AG and won’t be ticketed for speeding.

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