14 DAY TRIAL // In our search for the latest news, for the most shocking and outrageous, we often cross over some boundaries that should be left uncrossed. Comedian Louis C.K. thinks that, when TMZ decided to publish on their website a video of the Tracy Morgan car crash, they went over that line, and now he's taking to social media to blast them for it.
Yesterday, the comedian wrote on Twitter to TMZ and asked them to remove the offending clip, which was taken shortly after the crash took place and people at the scene were struggling to get the victims out of the wreckage. He simply wrote, “Take it down TMZ. Now. Please.”
He later added a new message to his fans, probably predicting that he was actually making the video even more famous by writing about it. He pleaded with his fans, “please don't go to TMZ to watch thev video. Please ask them to take it down.”
Louis is not the first one to speak on the matter and ask that the clip be taken offline. A similar request was made by comedian Ardie Fuqua's daughter. Ardie was one of the four people injured in the crash, and the video in question actually shows him being pulled out of the wreckage while unconscious.
Ardie's daughter wrote on Instagram earlier this week, “I honestly would like to petition for TMZ to remove this video. I understand people want to know and people want to be updated, but enough is enough. This is hurting my heart so bad that this video is posted for all to see.”
The accident in which Tracy Morgan and four other people were injured took place on Saturday last week, when a truck slammed into the limo they were traveling in at the time on the New Jersey Turnpike.
The Georgia truck driver has been charged by police and has appeared in front of a judge today. He has pleaded not guilty to vehicular homicide and four counts of assault by auto, despite the fact that the police investigation alleged that he hadn't slept for more than 24 hours before getting behind the wheel of his tractor trailer which he drove for Wal-Mart.
The driver, Kevin Roper, is said to have failed to stop in time and crashed into slower moving traffic in front of him, which included the limo that contained comedian Morgan and his friends, returning from a performance at Dover Downs Casino in Delaware.
At the time this article was written, TMZ hadn't removed the offending video from their website.