Episode 6: “His face was in your windshield, Jason.”
Former South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg (AP)
A man lies dead on the side of a dark road in South Dakota while the state’s Attorney General apparently flees the scene. A state’s chief law enforcement officer veers too far off the road, and finds himself on the wrong end of the justice system; and in a world of political hurt.
Content Warning: Death and dying, blood
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Episode Notes
Key sources used in the researching and writing of this episode include:
Law enforcement interview of Jason Ravnsborg, posted by Dakota Free Press
Timeline of events from the crash to the impeachment from KELOLAND News
SDPB’s streaming of South Dakota Legislature’s 2021 Second Special Session in the House and Senate
Articles in the AP, Argus Leader about the investigation of the crash and House Select Committee on Investigation, Dakota Free Press, Dakota News Now, Jalopnik, KELOLAND, SDPB, South Dakota Searchlight, Vanity Fair
News segments from Dakota News Now about Ravnsborg’s traffic violations and the impeachment vote, KELOLAND News, and SDPB
Opinion piece in SDPB
Additional stories about other public officials’ traffic violations from the AP, Daily Montanan, KTVB Channel 7, and the Washington Post
