SD attorney Gen "I thought I hit a deer" - victims face went thru windshield, glasses in his car

[Demovictory9]

'His face came through your windshield and his glasses were inside your car': Moment detectives present compelling hit-and-run evidence against South Dakota AG - only for him to insist he thought he'd struck a deer

Jason Ravnsborg fatally hit and killed Joseph Boever, 55, in September last year

Ravnsborg told cops he thought he hit a deer, and only later realized it was a man

But new footage reveals the moment detectives told him the victim's glasses were found inside his car, meaning 'his face came through your windshield'

But Ravnsborg has stuck to his defense, and faces three misdemeanor charges

He is also resisting calls to resign, with politicians now moving to impeach him




Head bowed, shoulder slumped, voice faltering - this is the moment South Dakota's attorney general was told a man's face had come through his windshield during a hit and run, despite his claim that he thought the 'victim' was a deer.

The date was September 30 and Jason Ravnsborg was taking part in his second interview with investigators following the fatal hit-and-run of 55-year-old Joseph Boever near the town of Highmore 18 days earlier.

Footage of the interview, released for the first time on Tuesday, reveals how detectives told Ravnsborg that Joseph's glasses had been found inside his car after the accident - and 'the only way for them to get there is through the windshield'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9292001/Governor-urges-South-Dakota-AG-resign-fatal-crash.html

[eShirl]

1. was he too drunk to tell the difference

[underpants]

2. What, deer wear glasses. That's how the read the crossing signs on the highway

Who doesn’t know that???

[Leghorn21]

7. +++

[dchill]

13. There IS that.

Most wear contacts, for vanity's sake.

[milestogo]

20. + a brazillion

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. How hard does one have to hit something?

For it to break THROUGH a windshield made of safety glass?

[Under The Radar]

19. Pretty damn fast - gotta do the conversions on the chart.

https://www.tmr.qld.gov.au/-/media/busind/techstdpubs/Supporting-documents/Report-on-testing-vehicle-windscreens/ImpactResistanceWindscreensReport.pdf?la=en

[Hortensis]

4. Reliable media report the victim's glasses found in the car and so on.

WaPo: South Dakota AG pushed by critics to resign over new evidence in fatal car incident: ‘He knew what he hit and he lied’

Ravnsborg interview analysis: Victim’s glasses found in car, cell phone use among key moments
https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/2021/02/24/ravnsborg-interview-analysis-victims-glasses-found-in-car-cell-phone-use-among-key-moments/

Unbelievable that even a Republican AG thought he could get away with this.

[Demovictory9]

12. he's a hardass to everyone else. with respect to law enforcement... read below

Probation and drug policy
Ravnsborg has unsuccessfully sought to restrict presumptive probation in South Dakota.[49][50] South Dakota's presumptive probation law mandates that persons convicted of certain nonviolent lower-level felonies (such as drug possession or use) be sentenced to probation unless a judge determines that a "significant risk" to the public exists.[50] Ravnsborg made the proposal central to his campaign and tenure, but failed to obtain sufficient support from the state legislature for the proposal in 2019.[50][49][51] State lawmakers and Governor Noem expressed concern about the proposal after a budget estimate projected that it would cost the state $54 million in additional jail and prison costs over a decade.[50][51] Ravnsborg pushed the proposal again in 2020.[50]

In 2019, Ravnsborg took the position that industrial hemp and all forms of cannabidiol (CBD oil) are illegal in South Dakota (see marijuana in South Dakota).[52][53] In 2020, he opposed a state legislative proposal to reduce the crime of "ingesting a controlled substance" from a felony to a class-one misdemeanor, arguing that the proposal would insufficiently deter drug use; a state senate committee rejected the proposal, leaving South Dakota as the only U.S. state that makes ingestion a felony.[54]

Death penalty
In 2019, Ravnsborg testified against a bill to prohibit capital punishment of any person with a severe mental illness.[55] The bill was defeated in committee 4–3, but it was voted on out of committee and was defeated by the state senate 21?12.[55]

In 2019, Ravnsborg appeared in the 7th Circuit Court in Rapid City to request a warrant of execution for Charles Russell Rhines for the 1992 murder of Donnivan Schaeffer.[56] Judge Robert A. Mandel granted the warrant.[57] The South Dakota Supreme Court subsequently denied Rhines's request for a stay of execution.[58] After appeals and a clemency petition were denied, Rhines was executed.[59][60][61][62]

[Hortensis]

17. Umhm. A real bad actor.

[FakeNoose]

24. He's one of the Attorneys General listed in this damning report

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215153022

I was just reading his name in the RAGA report. He obviously thinks he can get away with every flimsy creepy lie, just like Chump did for way too long.

Lock him up!

[greenjar_01]

5. I think one of the Conservative Lawyers Group is his DU public defender

Arguments incoming!

[marble falls]

6. Apparently not every deer can afford contact lenses ...

... and I thought Texas is a place where who you are determines how it goes.

[soothsayer]

8. Misdemeanor. No big deal to hit and run I guess.

[hatrack]

9. Well, now we know what it takes for a GQP elected official to lose their job in SD

They literally have to kill someone.

Not that he's resigned just yet, but if Gov. Snowqueen is against him, the odds are not in his favor.

[Demovictory9]

11. he's a hardass to everyone else. with respect to law enforcement... read below

Probation and drug policy
Ravnsborg has unsuccessfully sought to restrict presumptive probation in South Dakota.[49][50] South Dakota's presumptive probation law mandates that persons convicted of certain nonviolent lower-level felonies (such as drug possession or use) be sentenced to probation unless a judge determines that a "significant risk" to the public exists.[50] Ravnsborg made the proposal central to his campaign and tenure, but failed to obtain sufficient support from the state legislature for the proposal in 2019.[50][49][51] State lawmakers and Governor Noem expressed concern about the proposal after a budget estimate projected that it would cost the state $54 million in additional jail and prison costs over a decade.[50][51] Ravnsborg pushed the proposal again in 2020.[50]

In 2019, Ravnsborg took the position that industrial hemp and all forms of cannabidiol (CBD oil) are illegal in South Dakota (see marijuana in South Dakota).[52][53] In 2020, he opposed a state legislative proposal to reduce the crime of "ingesting a controlled substance" from a felony to a class-one misdemeanor, arguing that the proposal would insufficiently deter drug use; a state senate committee rejected the proposal, leaving South Dakota as the only U.S. state that makes ingestion a felony.[54]

Death penalty
In 2019, Ravnsborg testified against a bill to prohibit capital punishment of any person with a severe mental illness.[55] The bill was defeated in committee 4–3, but it was voted on out of committee and was defeated by the state senate 21?12.[55]

In 2019, Ravnsborg appeared in the 7th Circuit Court in Rapid City to request a warrant of execution for Charles Russell Rhines for the 1992 murder of Donnivan Schaeffer.[56] Judge Robert A. Mandel granted the warrant.[57] The South Dakota Supreme Court subsequently denied Rhines's request for a stay of execution.[58] After appeals and a clemency petition were denied, Rhines was executed.[59][60][61][62]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Ravnsborg

[hatrack]

14. A true piece of shit, following the path of Bill Janklow

[Demovictory9]

15. if some poor citizen was in this situation, he's be advocating for serious jail time for them

[Vinca]

10. Hey - the deer was near sighted and that's why he didn't see the car.

[niyad]

16. Almost six months since he killed that man. My prayer is that the man died instantly. I get cold

horrors thinking of him in the grass.

[twin_ghost]

18. He had to be drunk or high.

Why else would he run?

[gratuitous]

21. He faces three misdemeanor charges?

That seems . . . rather light for killing a man, fleeing the scene, and lying to the cops about it.

[Blue Owl]

22. You wouldn't hit a deer with glasses, would you?

Well I guess he would...

[Maru Kitteh]

23. Am I wrong in thinking it's likely he had to pull the dead man

out of his windshield and into the grass after the accident?

ETA: Once someone has gone through your windshield it no longer seems like a "bounce" situation.

[crickets]

32. Interesting question. nt

[Maru Kitteh]

34. I had one of those large hooks you see hanging from tractor-trailers

bounce off the interstate and come through my windshield. I remember seeing it in slow motion, kind of like a scene from The Matrix, hurling towards me. The next thing I knew I was flat against the console my head over the other side of the seat, and I was aware of someone screaming. Then I realized it was me screaming. I shit you not. Oh - and then I remembered that I was driving. On the interstate.

I can't believe I didn't get myself dead that day.

After I came up from laying across the front of the cabin and got the car to the side of the road I saw the hook, resting just behind the gear shift. I had shattered bits of glass in my mouth, in my hair, all over my shirt. I had bits of shattered glass in my ears. I still have that hook.

If that poor man's glasses were in the car and his face came through the windshield, I simply don't see how the driver didn't have to extricate the body from his car himself.

[crickets]

35. Oh my god. It's amazing you lived.

I agree with you. It seems almost certain that anyone who went through the windshield face first likely did not bounce out again. Jason Ravnsborg killed a man, tried to cover it up, and lied about it. Awful.

[ancianita]

25. Three misdemeanors sounds like more "no big deal" pro-white bias law enforcement to me.

[hatrack]

26. Well, did you see just how supernaturally white this guy is?

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And let's not allow his ultra-hardass stance on law enforcement to be forgotten.

If that's not enough to knock vehicular manslaughter down to a couple of Class 2 misdemeanors, I just don't know what is.

[ancianita]

29. Yep.

And you nicely break down a few levels of white privilege within law enforcement -- supernatural white implies spiritual superiority and innocence; the more officially hardass, the softer the charge; turning the blind white eye -- 'nothing to see here, move along' -- and forgetting all about it.

I'd like to get a look at the informal Republican code on how white people get treated by LEO's.

Thanks for a bit of breakdown of the white-bias enforcement puzzle.

[dalton99a]

27. "Bone scrapings were found on the highway shoulder"

[jalan48]

28. Lock the fucker up.

[Tracer]

30. I hit a deer once on a back road.

I hit the brakes when I saw the deer in front of me, so I was almost stopped when we collided.

The deer landed on my hood and for a second or two, the deer and I were staring at each other through the windshield. Then he slid off and ran off into the woods unhurt.

Strangely, I definitely knew it was a deer and not a person.

[Demovictory9]

33. was he wearing glasses?

[kskiska]

31. I hit a deer once.

It was broad daylight and he apparently ran like lightning across the road. After being knocked down, he got up and ran away, hopefully seriously unhurt. I felt terrible.