Vermont Cop Fatally Struck Cyclist While Playing YouTube Video of Matt Walsh Debating Trans Woman: Report

A Vermont police officer who fatally struck a cyclist had a Matt Walsh YouTube video playing on his squad car’s tablet at the time of the crash, according to multiple reports.

Kyle Kapitanski, a sergeant of the Shelburne Police Department, was driving in South Burlington in the early morning of Nov. 11. Around 2:40 a.m. when he called dispatch to report that he had hit something and that it was “probably a person.”

That person was 38-year-old Sean Hayes of Burlington. Hayes died at the scene of the crash.

According to a report from VTDigger, body cam footage from the morning of the accident revealed that the mounted tablet inside Kapitanski’s squad car displayed a YouTube video. The state police’s technology investigation unit confirmed that “YouTube footage was visible on the tablet from 2:29 a.m. to 2:40 a.m.”

Kapitanski was seen on body cam footage turning off the YouTube video after the crash, VTDigger reported.

The last YouTube video that played on the tablet was titled “Trans woman CONFRONTING Matt Walsh takes UNEXPECTED turn.” In the video, the woman revealed to Walsh that she attended an event he was speaking at in an effort to “derail” him. Instead, she found herself agreeing with many of his views on gender and the pair debated further.

Kapitanski was charged with grossly negligent operation with death resulting, and is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday.

Watch a report on the crash above, via NBC affiliate WPTZ.