‘I Killed a Man’: Drunk Driver Confesses to Homicide on YouTube

I sent a link to this video to the whitehouse obama could learn a thing or two from this guy about being a man and accepting respoinsibility for your actions, instead of running around blaming everyone else for your repeated failures.

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An Ohio man made a YouTube video this week starting with the line “I killed a man.” It’s a gripping video of someone admitting that he was driving drunk and killing another person. He identifies himself as Matthew Cordle and his victim as Vincent Canzani, and says that “when I get charged I’ll plead guilty and take full responsibility for everything I’ve done to Vincent and his family.”

Towards the end of the video, Cordle warns anyone watching to not drink and drive. The video has so far been watched over 800,000 times. As soon as people started taking notice of the video, local law enforcement took action.

O’Brien admitted he was blown away by the video confession, saying “Boy, I’ve never seen one like this before. I would tell you that. It was a compelling piece of video.”

A CNN report on the video Saturday included audio of the victim’s daughter-in-law wrestling with the emotions this brought up for their family, and admitting she didn’t know how to feel about what Cordle’s punishment should be.

Watch CNN’s report below:

 

One of the most interesting (though not surprising) statements he makes is that a lawyer told him to lie. In my neck of the woods, Southern California, there's an entire industry of sleazy lawyers who do nothing but try to get drunks out of their DUIs.

A couple of years ago, our family physician was killed by a hit-and-run driver who was arrested about a week after the accident. In court, the defendant's lawyer had the nerve to say that "no alcohol was involved." It was pure lawyer bullshit, but since the perpetrator ran away there was no way to prove that he was drunk. Without that evidence of intoxication, he got off easy with a 5-year sentence. If they could have proven he was drunk he would have received at least double that. (IMO, anyone involved in a hit-and-run fatality should get an automatic life sentence.)

After the frustration of watching the dirtbag who killed our doctor get off easy by lying and running away, it was good to hear a man stand up and take responsibility for his actions.