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Caught On Tape: South Carolina Cop Shoots Unarmed Man 8 Times In The Back
Activists plan to protest in South Carolina today, according to Reuters, after a white police officer was caught on video fatally shooting a 50-year-old black man in the back as he ran away following a traffic stop. The officer has been charged with murder and the FBI and U.S. Justice Department are investigating the shooting, the latest in a series of incidents that have raised questions about U.S. policing and race relations.
As Reuters reports, the video shows a brief scuffle between the pair before Scott begins to run away.
Slager is then seen taking aim with a handgun before shooting eight times at Scott's back. Scott then slumps facedown onto the grass.
According to a police report, Slager told other officers Scott had taken his stun gun from him.
At no point in the video, which does not show the initial contact between the men, does Scott appear to be armed.
Slager is seen placing the victim in handcuffs as he lies on the ground, and then the officer walks back to a spot near where he opened fire.
The video then shows him appearing to pick something up, return to Scott, and then drop it next to him on the ground.
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You decide...
As Liberty Blitzkrieg's Mike Krieger exclaims, the video above is really hard to watch. Not just because we see a police officer gunning down a man as he ran away, but because he repeatedly yells at a dead body to “put his hands behind his back,” and then seemingly plants his taser by the corpse to cover up the crime.
The officer, Michael T. Slager, 33, said he had feared for his life because the man had taken his stun gun in a scuffle after a traffic stop on Saturday. A video, however, shows the officer firing eight times as the man, Walter L. Scott, 50, fled. The North Charleston mayor announced the state charges at a news conference Tuesday evening.
The video, which was taken by a bystander and provided to The New York Times by the Scott family’s lawyer, presents a different account. The video begins in the vacant lot, apparently moments after Officer Slager fired his Taser. Wires, which carry the electrical current from the stun gun, appear to be extending from Mr. Scott’s body as the two men tussle and Mr. Scott turns to run.
Something — it is not clear whether it is the stun gun — is either tossed or knocked to the ground behind the two men, and Officer Slager draws his gun, the video shows. When the officer fires, Mr. Scott appears to be 15 to 20 feet away and fleeing. He falls after the last of eight shots.
The officer then runs back toward where the initial scuffle occurred and picks something up off the ground. Moments later, he drops an object near Mr. Scott’s body, the video shows.
- From the New York Times article: South Carolina Officer Is Charged With Murder in Black Man’s Death
The video at the end of this story is really hard to watch. Not just because we see a police officer gunning down a man as he ran away, but because he repeatedly yells at a dead body to “put his hands behind his back,” and then seemingly plants his taser by the corpse to cover up the crime.
Just like with banker theft, unless people are held accountable with serious jail time, the criminality will not only continue, it will get worse. The rule of law must be restored and applied equally to the rich and powerful, or we are truly doomed as a society.
Coincidentally, this horrific incident came to light on the same day I posted that: U.S. Police Kill More Civilians in March than UK Police Killed in 100 Years.
Now from the New York Times:
WASHINGTON — A white police officer in North Charleston, S.C., was charged with murder on Tuesday after a video surfaced showing him shooting in the back and killing an apparently unarmed black man while the man ran away.
The officer, Michael T. Slager, 33, said he had feared for his life because the man had taken his stun gun in a scuffle after a traffic stop on Saturday. A video, however, shows the officer firing eight times as the man, Walter L. Scott, 50, fled. The North Charleston mayor announced the state charges at a news conference Tuesday evening.
North Charleston is South Carolina’s third-largest city, with a population of about 100,000. African-Americans make up about 47 percent of residents, and whites account for about 37 percent. The Police Department is about 80 percent white, according to data collected by the Justice Department in 2007, the most recent period available.
The shooting unfolded after Officer Slager stopped the driver of a Mercedes-Benz with a broken taillight, according to police reports. Mr. Scott ran away, and Officer Slager chased him into a grassy lot that abuts a muffler shop. He fired his Taser, an electronic stun gun, but it did not stop Mr. Scott, according to police reports.
Moments after the struggle, Officer Slager reported on his radio: “Shots fired and the subject is down. He took my Taser,” according to police reports.
But the video, which was taken by a bystander and provided to The New York Times by the Scott family’s lawyer, presents a different account. The video begins in the vacant lot, apparently moments after Officer Slager fired his Taser. Wires, which carry the electrical current from the stun gun, appear to be extending from Mr. Scott’s body as the two men tussle and Mr. Scott turns to run.
Something — it is not clear whether it is the stun gun — is either tossed or knocked to the ground behind the two men, and Officer Slager draws his gun, the video shows. When the officer fires, Mr. Scott appears to be 15 to 20 feet away and fleeing. He falls after the last of eight shots.
The officer then runs back toward where the initial scuffle occurred and picks something up off the ground. Moments later, he drops an object near Mr. Scott’s body, the video shows.
Oh, and just in case you were wondering…
The Supreme Court has held that an officer may use deadly force against a fleeing suspect only when there is probable cause that the suspect “poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others.”
Mr. Scott’s brother said his mother had called him on Saturday, telling him that his brother had been shot by a Taser after a traffic stop. “You may need to go over there and see what’s going on,” he said his mother told him. When he arrived at the scene of the shooting, officers told him that his brother was dead, but he said they had no explanation for why. “This just doesn’t sound right,” he said in an interview. “How do you lose your life at a traffic stop?”
The video above shows how... in today's new-normal!
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One day my Crimes Against the American People List (CAAPL), Treason list, will have a thing, or 99, to day about that.
The banksters need to repay us.
Dear Fullerton gun and badge thugs,
My neighbor is not too nice. Would you be so kind as to send over thugs Cicinelli, Ramos, and Wolfe to do to my neighbor what they did to Kelly Thomas?
Sincerely, and cold regards.
. . . and why shouldn't they kill even more, if they get rewarded with extensive paid vacation . . . EVERY. KILL. THEY. MAKE.
Who is training these morons?
Also, if you can't run and catch an overweight 50 year old man, you don't deserve to be on the force. Do some fucking cardio and weightlifting.
Wtf was that dumb ass porch monkey thinking? You cant out run lead projectiles @ 1200 fps. If that fvker would have stayed in school and learned physics he might have figured out that he is not faster than a speeding bullet. But NO, this fsa recipient just didn't get it. Oh well, just another long line of dead niggers.
And you are a prime example of what a shit stain looks like in our society.
Oh my. someone is losing thier sense of humor and is now all butthurt. Typical PC fvktards running around looking to be sooooo offended.
And you, Einstein, are:
1) The biggest POS troll Al or Jesse could find to discredit the ZH readership...hmmm, but wait, you've been a "member" for over 5 years...
so, you must be
2) truly, the knuckle-dragging backwoods ingrate you've presented yourself to be.
Take another swig of Mad Dog and go have more sex with your sister, ahem, yer wife.
How did you manage to get an Internet connection? I didn't think the TVA could make it that far back into 'dem 'dere hills.
This is going to be my third and final account deleted by the "fight club." I am now going into hiding as it is obvious this shit is getting real. If you had any imagination you might understand that there is no freedom of anything anymore. I have lived in the before and after police state amerika and have been plugged in since the days of telnet and text only internet. When freedom of speech got squashed here, on the shining beacon that 0hedge WAS, I no longer care to be part of this insane world gone mad. My postings on this subject is a mirror for you all to look into. It is because of this fvkin PC crap that we are controlled by the thought police that have all you offended morons sucking on the controllers knobs. Humans are such dumb fvkers it is amazing. It is far easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled. F o o l s
I was wondering when we'd get the opinion of a rural police officer. Thanks.
Trav777.... Is that you? :)
Often Mossad agents -I'm not kidding. They are being trained to deal with our citizens as the Israelis do with Palestinians - fear and intimidation.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8f0_1355615249
"Who is training these morons?"
Zion. Really. No joke. http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-police-get-anti-terror-training-in-israe...
The banksters need to repay us.
Trace the plunder and blood, cookies too, find Zion.
Thanks for Link.
I might like a VIP Trip to Israel. But why won't my country train me in fire arms and military skills to defend against the Terrorist?
and why did he run?outstanding warrents you say? huh, shocking.
i guess you have to expect to be shot when you run from the po-po. not thats its ok to shoot a guy in the back but shit happens. funny how cops are still so trigger happy after all the shit that has gone down lately. just goes to show you, they cant help themselves, thier just killers at heart.
funny thing is, if someone breaks into your home and you shoot them in the back, you are justified.
"if someone breaks into your home and you shoot them in the back, you are justified."
When they shoot at you while they are running away, yes you are justified.
actually, in arizona where i slive, there have been home invations were the perp gets shoot in the back and didnt even have a weapon and the home owner never gets charged. scott free. its a great state to live in, the wild west. i'll take care of myself thank you.
I whole hardheartedly agree.
However, the gun and badge thugs in general, are hunting people, not protecting their Property and Lives like a homeowner.
Even in the Michael Brown case, regardless of what the reader may think, it is obvious that the the thug, at a minimum, generated a situation where he could kill.
The banksters need to repay us.
And remember, the gun and badge thugs have only been practicing on black people. Now they are coming for money, not just slaves, and who has the money, or at least some money left?
Yes and could be that an officer that explains that a perp got away from him when he was detaining him faces ostracism, penalties, retraining, ridicule, extra attention from supervisor, and is even considered a wimp for not shooting a man running from a scuffle from him.
Not only does officer have incentive to shoot, but is congratulated and considered a "solid officer", a strong asset to the department.
In a sane world, an officer who was supposed to execute a traffic stop, but executed the citizen instead, would be demed unfit for duty if if the shooting were ultimately justified.
Yeah, outstanding warrants for failure to pay support on four children by various women. All because we as a society decided that it's the man's fault when some slutty ho gets pregnant, when it would take her five minutes to find some other broke-ass nigga to knock her up.
this one is CUT and DRIED
lack of trainning, or lack of discipline by the cop. whatever. he flailed, and killed the guy. pretty straight forward. childish
"lack of trainning, or lack of discipline by the cop."
I would say desire to kill.
The banksters need to repay us.
Another one for the Article 3, Section 3 Club. The Guillotine Level.
south-carolina ... what do you expect?
At least there they know that the state name isn't hyphenated.
m o o n spells South Carolina
Care to name any state this where this wouldn't/couldn't happen?
PS....Fuck you.
I was expecting this to be in New York or Chi-Congo or at least out in Cali. In the aforementioned places, the thugcops get away with it. The only difference in SC is that it will take a Federal bribe for the cop NOT to go to prison for murder.
Public Hanging. I'm not kidding. Televise it nationwide.
Does SC have capital punishment?
*checks teh googlez*
Yes, yes they do.
Sadly I doubt that they will execute him though, as this will provide all the activation energy required to ensure a nice divide and conquer race war.
yes they do. on the spot appearantly
Consequences, consequences, consequences. If there are no consequences, or in other circumstances, the rule of law, then human nature will take its course as asocial/criminal behavior (whether by psychopathic banksters or or militarized cops), becomes the accepted norm. My god, how the USA has degenerated over my lifetime.
White racists joining the police force.
Police officer: Why do you wanna join the police force?
White racist: To kill as many blacks as I legally can, sir.
Police officer: Okay, you're hired.
"White psychopath joining the police force.
Police officer: Why do you wanna join the police force?
White psychopath: To kill as many people as I legally can, sir.
Police officer: Okay, you're hired."
fixed that for ya.....cops just like to shoot people because they are not right in the head. it just so happens black offer the best opportunity for target practice.
PD's need to stop hiring mentally defect humans.
Denial fixes nothing.
It's always about race, no matter how you like to put it differently.
Oh, the race hustlers will love this one;served up by some dumbass cop who ran headlong into an agenda.
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“He has four children; he doesn’t have some type of big violent past or arrest record,” said Chris Stewart, a lawyer for Mr. Scott’s family. “He had a job; he was engaged. He had back child support and didn’t want to go to jail for back child support.”
Sounds like they'll really miss him.
Once the lawsuit is settled, the child support shouldn't be a problem.
This deadly force policy has got to go. F*ck the supreme Court. We need to organize locally to take over police departments and get these idiot chiefs out. In a way I feel sorry for the stupid officer, but he has to be held accountable - as does the Chief of police and the idiots who train these officers to believe that they can gun gown and kill an innocent person, because of the slightest provocation or fictitious rationalization that their "precious " lives are in danger. Every life is precious -not just theirs. DOL/OSHA ststistics show that police officers are one of the safest occupations in America -look it up. The facts don't lie. Our police should be trained to "serve and protect" not intimidate, create fear and murder citizens. Cops abuse innocent citizens all the time -look at one funny and you could get busted up and sent off to jail. I was a prosecutor for 9 years in two major cities. It is out of control. The Fascist bankers want to create a police state -they have already done so and it will get far worse if we don't do something to stop it. End the Police state! Repeal the bogus patriot Act. The bogus War on Terror is becoming the war on America.
I'm truly saddened when I see statists such as yourself completely fail to connect the dots between "representative government" and it's inevitable devolution into a police state.
Long story short, the only way to avoid a police state is to avoid the abstraction of state entirely. Anything less is to support the evil you pretend to oppose. People cannot be given ultimate power over other people's lives in a free society as it's just another form of individual enslavement.
You are suggesting anarchy?
Utopian bullshit - - all of these "isms" (Communism, Socialism, Libertarianism, capitialism) )are utopian and dangerous. Yeah, let's abolish the State and trust Monsanto, Goldman sachs, Halliburton, etc. to leave us all alone. Their private armies would have us all rounded up like cattle. My right to raise a private army to defend myself, my family and neigbors is worthless when th slavemasters use their more considerable resources to crush the opposition
The bogus War on Terror is becoming the war on America.
That was the plan all along. Situation normal, nothing to see here, back on your heads you fvkin goyim.
"We need to organize locally to take over police departments and get these idiot chiefs out."
In fairness, it looks like local authorities are taking the right steps. The officer is being charged with murder. This must be a good sign.
Let's not rush to judgement...the man may have been a cannibal and running toward a small, thus delicious, child we can't on screen.
What a fucking dolt, good luck in prison. And thanks for giving the race hustlers more ammo too, just what I wanted, more "everyone's racist" 24/7 for the next 6 weeks.
Once he starts shooting, the only way a cop stops shooting is when he runs out of bullets.
That said, running from a cop does decrease your life expectancy.
Zero Hedgies aren't too bright:
Walter Scott Shooting Hoax - The Racial Psyop Divide and Conquer Method Exposed
WALTER SCOTT SHOOTING? I SAY- HOAX!
JAMES SMITH49 minutes ago That video is fake as all hell.
1. No recoil from the gun
2. No reaction to being shot
3. No blood, or bullet holes
I am not finding these two videos to be very convincing that this was a staged false flag to stir up racial tension.
Like I said, not very bright.
dont be such a GLP tard. you can't tell recoil in that shit video.
ever heard of adrenaline?
plenty of blood at the end.
Damn you are dumb.
It does sound like blanks too for whatever reason. I'm not technical about phones or camera audio. 40 Caliber or what?
Should be big bang, big recoil, except cops are in shape. This looks like he is in shape and strong hands well trained. Why the hell didn't he get the guy in 1-2 shots though.
As a Layman I hate the way the video looks and sounds.
Even blanks have recoil. Thay have too to make a semi-automatic pistol work. I addition, I thought I saw recoil, but the video quality is poor. But if the cop did not kill the guy, who did? What kind of whacky conspiracy do you propose?
I sort of have been coming around on the recoil and on the audio of real gun shots.
I agree. Blanks on a SA would have to be strong to make it operate properly.
+ 1
Zero Hedgies: 50% shills, 40% dumdums
See treason, say treason.
The banksters need to repay us.
"How was your day honey? Great dear, I got to finally kill someone. Got him four times in the back, then cuffed his dead ass. That's good honey, now go kiss your kids and tell them what a hero you are."
That should not happen. Maybe it's a 'crime of passion'?
-- DWBT = escalation into punishment by eight deadly shots in the back while running away.
(Driving With Broken Taillight)
According to some big city mayors: "We can't let them get away with regulatory infractions or else it will open the gates to violent felons."
Training video?
This is what happens when two dumb asses meet.
After Sandy Hook, I'm not buying anything the first day that it goes on sale.
The cops say NOTHING to the guy videotaping the murder?
Goes straight to the NYT?
His mom found out immediately?
Also,
After Sandy Hook, I'm not buying anything the first day that it goes on sale.
What about Sandy Hook? Not following. Some sort of conspiracy there, too? I'm real interested to hear, as I have as good or better understanding of what happened at Sandy Hook than anyone on this site.
Edit: curious about all the downarrows that must "know" about some Sandy Hook "truths". Maybe a little too much George Washington Kool Aid.
Don't bother with them....I understand it can be quite maddening for those of us who are "in the know," to some degree of or another (having formerly lived in Bethel), but really, don't bother - kick the dust off your sandals and move on. I doubt that any of the "theorists" know anyone there or live there (I don't believe they would be welcome in many places).
Truly. they are cowards if you ponder the length they go to promote their "truth" about their delusional "hoax."
LOL when US was in Nicaragua arming and training Rebels against democratically elected government... believers and conservatives said the same thing.
I was in College at the time and only the long haired people knew the truth about Nicaragua and Reagan.
Mind Control. It is real. Question Authority & MSM.
Thank you for your 15 seconds of testimony...you're excused
......
Your honor, does the other side have any other "expert" witnesses other than this drivel they keep bringing before the court of reason?
Well played. And good counsel. It gets tiring listening to the conspiracies r us junkies.
"Mind Control. It is real."
Indeed Mr Bond, and the insideous part is, even when you think you've escaped it, you can never really be sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO1COaLlzRA
the black fella in the ebola green psy op t shirt his name is walter scott
he really looks scotch
or is it a scot
dumb hedge
like the ebola meme great for google advertise analytics streams
And in case anyone is wondering just how far down this rabbit hole goes, guess who set up homeland security.
http://investmentwatchblog.com/fact-dhs-was-created-by-markus-wolfe-a-fo...
"We Poleeced some folks.."
Sucks to be a black male in America.
Sucks to be almot anybody in America.
Sucks to be almost anybody in the world thanks to the fascist .gov/bankster mafia.
he looked like he could do the 50yd dash in about 30 seconds
"To Serve and Protect" - but who exactly are they serving?
I mean, this guy's just beggin' to be made an example of. [/nicky santoro]
It is also possible the cop is a faggot and wants to get ass hammered the rest of his waking hours? What better way to get into the sex pot?
If there was no video the cop would be free today with no charges. This is why scum politicians nationwide are trying to pass laws to make it illegal to film a police officer.
He was charged with murder before the video was seen by police or made public
Oh thanks. I was going to question if the other cop (Black) should be up on charges.
- Yeah, don't grab a cops taser or gun, and don't run away
- but I don't see any cars, looks like cop followed him into a park or something
- Kinda looks like, hell no I'm not going to chase you
So cop stops you or you stop and cop gets out... and he says lets walk over to this park????
Where the hell is the car?
Empty Lot with fence at one end where the other cops comes from... good place for a Filmed Psyop. Easy Security both ends and obviously the chain link fence where the Director is is open, clear view of any witnesses. So you can clear the area for Film Psyop.
Then you have
- Sound of Blanks for 40 Caliber
- Hollow points would rip big holes in the man's front and throw him to the ground
- Man runs like he is waiting for the 8th shot which is off set so he can fall down
- Gun Recoil and sound, speed of 8 shots is rapid, like low powered gun, double tap is hard, triple tap is hard, yet here there is no recoil, no explosive shots lifting officers arms
Do you turn out the lights before you pee?
Enlighten me since your ID indicates you might have military experience.
Why would the guy not fall down with bright red bullet holes in his shirt back. No sucking Chest wound here. Not heart shot or brain shot the way he fell. he didn't sprawl from any of the shots.
cause our hero missed seven times ---duh--
If the officer missed with the first 7 shots there would obviously be no penetration of the torso. Depending on the bullet type the officer was using, even if all 8 of the bullets connected there may not be enough penetration to exit the front either. There are many types of bullets on the market and several weapons calibers to choose from for active duty police officers. It does not appear to me that the man was hit with any of the first 7 rounds. If no major arteries were penetrated there would naturally be no spewing blood. More than likely it was a spinal shot to the back by a coward, that took this INNOCENT man's life......
What you say makes sense.
Someone posted that he was hit 4 times, but I didn't have that info from the news. This was close range. I could have hit the guy 1 out of 8 after I found the trigger. Assuming I could release safety and find the trigger with a Glock I could have shot him at least once with hollow points (which are less accurate). I didn't want to call out that cop, and I'm not a good shot but I could have shot as well if it was 1 out of 8.
Yes, hollow points expand and bones would stop penetration. Makes sense.
You left your tin foil hat at the bar last night. Make sure you go pick it up.
what? He was charged before authorities saw the video. Is that a conspiracy theory?
They should follow the example of Spain and Turkey, where you get charged with t-roar-ISM for video taping police "activity".
This would never have happened if it was illegal to videotape cops, as has been proposed.
Anybody heard of these groups being inflitraded by IS:
- SCIU (or is it SEIU?)
- OBS (Organization for Black Struggle)
- New Black Panthers
- Al Sharpton, President
I guess they were at Ferguson with Black Panthers providing Security. Some guy on the Radio talking about getting a lot of Tips from Glen Beck Listeners and talking about Muslim Clerics Targeting Prisons and Prisoners for Recruiting.
He just said there are like 5 Levels of organization in the USA.
But since I don't watch MSM, I have never heard about any of this.
http://www.seiu.org/2014/03/with-26-days-left-to-getcovered-seiu-and-par...
Hillary lost two votes in 8 shots.
In my humble opinion, Government employees shouldn't be allowe to run around kililng people for sport -
There is no way around it. This is real fucked up.
They will state is was a suicide.
The most frightening part to me is how nonchalantly the officer moves to frame the victim.
That video is a fake. Forging video footage on a laptop is cake these days.
Slager didn't hurt a living soul except in self-defense, and no matter what South Carolina's chattering ghetto monkeys and their friends in the Obama White House and carpetbagger-controlled state and local governments think, the truth will come out, and Slager will walk, just like Darren Wilson. You'll see.
The cop will walk while the copkiller rots. And that's as it should be.
The job of the police is allegedly to protect the rest of us from criminals. In the end, that often means putting them down like the dogs they are. Stop whinging when cops do their goddamn job now and again instead of covering the arses of rich thieves or kicking in the doors of white people they know they can shake down for cash on trumped-up drug charges.
Go ahead and whip up a fake video on your computer and upload it here, if it's such a piece of cake.
What an ignorant assholish thing to say.
Yup, they're doing God's work protecting the good white folks from the dogs of society....
except when you're the dog, of course.
Run along, troll. There's a flag somewhere that wants you to salute it.
"Forging video footage on a laptop is cake these days."
Go stage your own "being shot by police" and while you're at it, don't use blanks!
What a sorry piece of shit. Don't drop the soap!
The real crime here is that all these effing pricks think they can lie with impunity. The police, the prosecutors, the judges, et. al. are all complicit in the formation of the tyrannical fascist state that countenances such barbarism. It's time to stop coddling the vicious dogs for the state.
why is the video SO poor? Hold the fuckign camera still, asshat!
Other than circumstantial skin color, I see no evidence that the cop is white or the victim is black.
Sure, if you can choose your gender at birth, why not also choose your race? Makes sense.
If "qualified immunity" continues, this will continue to expand.
There is a bright side of the story. The bright side is that this COP is being prosecuted.
BUT
It didn't have to end that way. Without the video, the COP would have a paid vacation during the inquiry, the would-be-videographer (now just an eyewitness) would be threatened or discredited or both.
And what makes Law Enforcement LITERALLY able to shoot unarmed people on the streets, without repurcussion unless caught red-handed on camera????
Qualified Immunity does it.
Another few years, and even the video will not be enough to get a prosecution. Instead the videographer will also be killed, and the video disappeared.
And don't think this is just for black people. It happens to other races too, but isn't newsworthy.
It is about abusive and arbitrary police power without consequences for misbehavior.
Justified shooting. Cop walks. That's the way the law was written.
You can see that something fell from the cop as the guy ran.
Cops cannot be judged on hindsight.
All he has to say is the guy attacked him, tried to take his stun gun and because of his actions, had he succeeded the cop felt that his own life and the publics was in immediate danger, even as he tried to flee.
So he opened fire and killed him.
According to the law and how it is currently written, it was a good shoot.
I am not saying it's right. It's not.
Just to make sure I get downvotes, this scenario reminds me of a certain struggle that happened a while back in Ferguson. Of course, there was no video to contradict the officers story.
There was a struggle, the cop feared for his life and danger to the public, so he killed the guy. He will walk
What a simple world you must live in. Cops = good. Anyone not a cop = bad.
Unarmed man gets shot 8 times in the back and you're here saying all is well. Fucking statist loser.
what a simple minded person you are.
Like I said, 'according to how the law is written' it was a good shoot and he will walk
I don't agree with it. Just pointing out how the laws are written to protect police.
How you extrapolated that I endorse that behaviour is beyond me. So maybe I am simple after all.
I think you are on track here.
If it is a real video of a real life situation and not staged, then the man resisted arrest and attempted to flee.
He was tazed so he was going to get arrested. End of story.
Locally they say if a cop tells you to jump, you say how high? There is a lot of support for LEOs and we do have drive by shootings here.
Fleeing a scene of a crime.
But... this could be a Psyop where the DOJ makes sure the white cop goes to jail only on paper, but actually give the cop a retirement some place. Obama Legacy is made by tough stance on White on Black racism.
Legacy = planned, long range strategy.
Im sure Loony knows what he's saying there. And its not that cops are good, its that cops are abpove the law. And Im reading he doesnt agree that it should be that way. He is telling you how LE and the courts see things.
So . . . waste the murderer there on the spot, and justify it by claiming the fear of losing one's life from all the inaccurate shots the crazed thugcop murderer was capping off.
This is inevitable. Somewhere sometime soon, an armed citizen is going to witness a Slager-esque murder at the hands of a cop-cartel member, draw his weapon, and shoot that criminal pig like a rabid dog.
I'm smart enough not to grab a cop's taser, piss him off and then try to run away. I'd EXPECT to get shot or have my ass kicked. What is the deal with these people who don't (a) understand too many cops are on a hair trigger just waiting to do something like this and (b) asking for trouble will more than likely get you into trouble. Manslaughter and never get to wear a badge again? Yes, definitely. Guilty of murder? No.
you may not be as smart as you think. When it comes to fight or flight, you may end up trying to protect yourself. What he did was very common.
Which is why people will struggle against police and be suffocated to death with 5 cops on top, because they are too afraid to do the 'sensible' thing, of totally submitting to aggressive force. Instinct takes over.
Unfortunately, police training and laws do not take that into account.
The victim had been Tasered. If you were hit with 2,000 Volts at close range what would you do? Maybe you would grab the Taser gun, or run away. Apparently thats what this guy did.
Common knowledge would be that people that are Tasered fall to the ground and shake. Not in this case.
OK. Go ahead and resist arrest if you want. Hit the cop. Grab his stuff. Call him some choice names while your're doing it and be sure to throw in a threat or two while you're at it. Then run and expect nothing bad to happen because it's your instincts telling you to act the fool instead of your intelligence telling you to just put up with it and see the bastard in court. No biggie. He'll understand.
I suppose if you were being electrocuted you would compliantly stair at those wires with your hands behind your back. I don't care how sheepish you claim to be. When faced with a life threatening event the instinct for survival takes over and flight from the threat is natural and instinctive.
And don't come at me with your, sign the ticket and be nice, crap. I fully agree and practice the same anytime I'm stopped, but if a cop is on a fishing expedition, he's not concerned about writing a ticket for the alleged crime, a cracked tail light. The perp shouldn't have resisted, but just because the cop is lazy and doesn't want to chase down a fleeing suspect of a misdemeanor, doesn't give him reason to kill the man!
Sorry, this cop is a murderer. Plain and simple. The cop who shot Michael Brown was justified. This guy? No way. Send him to prison.
true, true. The video evidence and cop testimony fully validated the shooting of Mike Brown.
Don't they have the death penalty in South Caroliner? I'm sure people have gotten the chair for less. Especially if its get proven that he was jerry riggin the evidence.
While he may get in trouble for MOVING evidence, he didn't plant any evidence.
At least that's what I would say if I was the cop. As per the video, he walked back and picked up the taser that had fallen when the victim?/perp? tried to take it from the cop. He put it there, careful to not touch where the victim grabbed it.
Against procedure? sure. Planting evidence? The video shows squat.
Just saying, this guy walks, all legal eezy peezy.
edit: don't downvote. watch the vid and see how what I said makes exact sense. May require a couple weeks extra training, but it wasn't planting evidence. At least, that is what the cop will say.
They're going to prosecute this (former) cop to the maximum extent permissible by law.
It's all about fostering good race relations, and every effort will be made to hold this guy accountable.
If they allow him to walk, it will be Ferguson 2.0 in SC.
show 1 thing. just one thing that goes against the officers testimony.
If he 'believed' that the person was a threat, even when he was running away, it's a good shoot.
When you are a police officer in the US, all you have to do is 'believe' that your life was threatened, strike that. All you have to do is 'believe' that you or the public could suffer serious harm and your are good to go.
No video is going to show what the officer 'believed'
The guy walks.
You must be a cop or sucking one off.All you have to do is "believe" that your life is threatened and you can kill anyone? At the very least such belief would have to be reasonable. It is not possible to "reasonably" fear for your life when the person you attacked is running away. Here is hoping the cop doesn't get the death penalty and spends the next 50 years takling it simultaneously up his ass and won his throat three times a day from every black man in the prison.
OUTRAGE IN S.CAROLINA!
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Saddam's Weapons of mass destruction. I never had sex with that woman, Hope and change. Twa 800. Ok city. Health care will be more affordable and you can keep your doctor. You didn't build that. What difference does it make. 2 jets DID knock down 3 buildings. The American way of life will not be compromised. And its gone. We lead poisoned some folks. The economy is on a rebound. QE fixed everything. The US is solvent. Hemorrhoids itch and burn when scratched.
Nixon tape shot down the president; He was akin to say "do what you like but don't get caught at it"...Well he got bit by what he preached.
Zapruder Tape did not shoot down the magical bullet theory; JFK to this day has a lone assassin and Who knows where his brain is.
This tape makes Ferguson look like the template of white cops' rage for black target practice with real bullets. The NRA will say : we never had sex with that coppa! You can bet your hat on that!
When the number of earthquakes in Oklahoma go off the chart the Oil lobby will say as usual : correlation does not mean fracking causality to all that. They are already on tape with that pet phrase.
Wonder what the TEPCO guys will say when Caesium levels peak on the US pacific coast.
Obama has also said that the Iran deal is "a once in a lifetime". Its true he was not alive when the CIA did a many in a lifetime type deal in Iran 1953 to kill democracy.
Those guys are like the white cops who shoot first in the black victim's back and then swear it was for self defense.
CIA and cops have the same mindset as daddy Nixon and his tell tale tapes !
Where is the blood on the tee shirt from 7 gun shot wounds? Just asking. Why didn't an officer come and look at the kids camera? Just curious. They didn't roll him over to do CPR how come?
Something fishy going on here Lucy.
You won't bleed when your dead,,, if the first shot killed him there might not be a lot of blood.
Dear Officer Dickhead: Start lubing that asshole now. It'll help to "ease you into" prison life.
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fuck prison life. give this guy the firing squad. except, make other cops shoot him (that way it will be a slow death).
This will remind me that driving in SC with a broken tail light is a very serious offense you can't run away from.
Bad cop brings down the dog and pony show of the race pimps. I'm pretty sure this cop would shoot down a white guy that ran away too if all it takes is a broken tail light to pull his gun.
This is why we need more police on the streets. To protect the public from the current police brutality
Disgusting!!!...
At some point when they run out of poor Blacks the cops will pull over a someone who has a bigger weapon and knows how to use it. Cops are poorly trained and don't take the time to learn how to combat shoot also most are just fat.
He grabbed the cops jelly donut and squeezed some of the filling out on the cops uniform. The cop thought he was bleeding and promptly opened fire , emptying his clip, on the donut bandit running away from him.
This fucker should be strung up naked in the shower room at his local penitentiary.
This fucker should be strung up naked in the shower room at his local penitentiary.
This is probably the plan all along. Loads of sick mudderfvkers out there.
I'm stunned this pig is actually getting charged with murder. It's a small start, assuming he's convicted and given life in prison (won't happen). But for every cop that faces charges you can bet there are dozens of identical crimes that go unpunished.
These thugs should be sentenced the same as mere mortals when convicted of killing one of the little gods. If memory serves, killing one of 'them' is a capital crime.
I'm surprised he didn't pump another 8 or 9 rounds in the body for not immediatly 'OBEYING' a LAW ENFORCEMENT thug.
It's amazing how the coppers have turned catching the killers into being the killers.
This is about Us vs. Them. We're all black now, Bitchez.........
We are all useless eater goyim and always have been. Color is not the issue. The bolshevik revolution lives on.
I'm going to assume the victim was not completely innocent. How the fuck does a traffic stop turn into a scuffle? In any event, why did the cop need to kill the man? Do you really need to shoot the guy 8 times? Why is he barking orders at a guy who was just shot 8 times? Shouldn't he be calling for an ambulance or something? I guess he did radio shots fired, but it seems.... off somehow. He's still yelling for the guy to move. I'm guessing the fact that this man is dying didn't top his list of priorities.
I think people have a legitimate reason to be afraid of police. A lot of cops are great cops, and they have good intentions, but some of them are just crazy. It would be nice if we had better treatment for things like depression or anxiety disorders. Maybe the cop is depressed. Maybe someone could have noticed it. Maybe this could have been avoided. It's not about a lack of procedures relating to traffic stops. Procedures don't matter when you're depressed.
It is said he owed back child support and didn't want to be jailed for not paying that.
Maybe he is just a homicidal killer with a badge.
the 2nd cop on scene is black & is clearly standing over body when "the object" is dropped. if it's the taser then clarence thomas is going to come home to his wife popping a cold bottle of dom to celebrate him no longer being most hated black man in history of us...
This is where the Technology can be used for good to disclose the corruption, bad actors, abuses, crimes, lies, flaws etc.
There is NOTHING funny about that man losing his life. People are messed up for making idlejokes about the loss of life in that regard. Shadenfreude....
I can't believe it. I can't believe it. I can't believe he didn't shoot the camera man !!
that thought crossed my mind too - the guy wasn't that far to begin with & actually gets CLOSER after the shots were fired! brave but probably not too smart... will be interesting when he comes out. will also be interesting to see what kind of chewbaca defense the lawyers try to use (especially when crossexamining him)