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5 Second Slow Mo Video Shows What REALLY Happened With Policeman Who Shot Fleeing Man In Back
The officer shooting the unarmed man in the back who was running away is – appropriately – front-page news.
But there’s a bigger story …
Initially – as Kit Daniels shows – the media believed that the officer shot in self-defense … until the video was released. If the brave witness hadn’t filmed the entire incident on his cellphone, the truth would never have been discovered.
The Intercept explains:
Because three days elapsed between the shooting and the publication of the video of the shooting, the Scott incident became an illuminating case study in the routinized process through which police officers, departments and attorneys frame the use of deadly force by American cops in the most sympathetic possible terms, often claiming fear of the very people they killed. In the days after the shooting, the police version of events — an utterly typical example of the form — was trotted out, only to be sharply contradicted when the video surfaced. In most cases like this, there is no video, no definitive, undisputed record of much of what happened, and thus no way to rebut inaccurate statements by the police.
The first report of the Saturday afternoon incident, from Charleston’s The Post and Courier, followed the usual script: The police department’s story portrayed the victim as behaving dangerously, in this case, purportedly struggling to take an officer’s Taser as part of a violent altercation. Family and friends of the slain black victim mourned his loss and questioned the narrative offered by authorities.
The pro-police spin continued two days later, when a lawyer for Michael Slager, the officer who shot Scott, said Scott “tried to overpower” his client, who “felt threatened and reached for his department-issued firearm and fired his weapon.” Scott’s family and allies could do little more than note that Scott was unarmed, and call for the truth to somehow emerge.
A former U.S. Marshal reveals that law enforcement is trained to justify deadly force by pretending that they felt threatened by the suspect:
Moreover, police have shot people in the back and killed them as they ran away many times before. Here are a couple of recent examples, which happen to have been caught on tape:
- An unarmed man running away in Long Beach, California
- An unarmed man in Muskogee, Oklahoma (video)
- A man in Pasco, Washington
- An innocent artist in Utah who liked to dress up in anime (and see this)
Moreover, police often frame innocent suspects.
They also plant weapons on people, as “justification” for shooting them. The practice is so well-known that the New York Times noted in 1981:
In police jargon, a throwdown is a weapon planted on a victim.
Newsweek reported in 1999:
Perez, himself a former [Los Angeles Police Department] cop, was caught stealing eight pounds of cocaine from police evidence lockers. After pleading guilty in September, he bargained for a lighter sentence by telling an appalling story of attempted murder and a “throwdown”–police slang for a weapon planted by cops to make a shooting legally justifiable. Perez said he and his partner, Officer Nino Durden, shot an unarmed 18th Street Gang member named Javier Ovando, then planted a semiautomatic rifle on the unconscious suspect and claimed that Ovando had tried to shoot them during a stakeout.
Wikipedia notes:
As part of his plea bargain, Pérez implicated scores of officers from the Rampart Division’s anti-gang unit, describing routinely beating gang members, planting evidence on suspects, falsifying reports and covering up unprovoked shootings.
Here, officer Slager was caught on film planting his taser on Walter Scott after he had already killed Scott:
(This is a slow motion excerpt from the video.)
Why is this happening?
One reason is that many law enforcement officers consider failure to comply with the officers’ demands as a basis for using lethal force.
Police have become so militarized in modern America that – in the words of civil rights and constitutional attorney John Whitehead – “the only truly compliant, submissive citizen in a police state is a dead one.”
Of course, if we had the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution, this would not be such a problem. Sadly, we’ve lost virtually all of those rights.
No wonder you’re 55 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than a terrorist.
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hmmm.....maybe THIS is why police don't want citizens videotaping them.....
My $0.02 George, don't include links to MSM in your entries. You have more than enough content for your articles, which are always great. RT and the like are biased sources that should be summarily ignored.
This video is a symptom of a fascist society. Moral outrage over social hot-button issues, public servants turning on the public, irrational patriotism/nationalism & endless war are also amongst these symptoms afflicting the US.
We're heading down a similar path as to what Nazi Germany & Fascist Italy traveled.
Biased lies must be shown side by side with truthful evidence so every new person seeing it can understand who the liars are and how bad, how big the lies are.
Not to justify or defend the LEO shooting Scott, but no one would have ever seen the video if Scott had complied with the orders to stop and stay put, at least 3 different times. Bit of a stretch to connect this with Nazis, don'tcha think?
I guess you Never watched cops. Fifty percent run and the cops run after them with no gun drawn. It always amazes me how those donut eaters can catch up to young blacks. Nazis = the cop shooting the perp in the back eight times.
Bit of a stretch to connect this with Nazis, don'tcha think?
Not much. Everythingthe Nazi's did was Legal.
Yep, codified oppression is unmistakable, and equates to fascism. It's like porn, you know it when you see it (if your eyes are open).
One last thing and then I'll return control of the blog to ya'll. If you hate LEOs so much then get some laws passed to make it illegal to have any LEOs employed. And yes, I have plenty of firepower to protect my family too, but I'm not stupid enough to think I have enough bullets if every obummer voter in the cities were all turned loose to have a nice frolic. I'll take the flawed “rule of law” that we have over Armageddon. Thanks for the spirited conversation, it's was even worth the down votes.
Doc said "Every Obummer voter..."
So you aren't registered? And can prove you weren't in 2008 and 2012? Because otherwise, YOU are an "Obummer voter" just like everyone else that is registered "yes."
Just like every "liberal" that was registered in 2000 and 2004 "voted" for Bush the Younger.
Again...voting is binary. Yes or no.
And you can't change a corrupt system by using the "laws" of the corrupt system. It doesn't work like that.
Why does it have to be one or the other? How about de-militarizing the cops, making them accountable, and weeding out the bad ones?
What you are saying is we either have to have, and like it, bad cops, or go with none at all.
Ok,
I think I found the problem here.
You're under the impression that the cops will save the day when the Mau-mau uprising occurs.
Like in LA when the Rodney King riots happened and the cops were nowhere to be found while they burned down a good chunk of the city?
Those cops?
Good luck. You're going to need it.
Probably like in New Orleans where the 'good' cops were raiding automobile dealerships and selling the cars in Texas.
No down vote from me. All your saying is that you or someone you know is a police officer. Your just biased in your decision process because of a paycheck. Over paid paycheck by the way!
Don't worry, when the SHTF, I guarantee you that P.O.'s will be home protecting their family's and nothing else.
The millisha will take out the National Guard. Then what?
End the FED
End the IRS
End the police, teachers union.
Cut the FED government spending in half!
Fan-fucking-tastic false dichotomy you've constructed, there--either we allow bad cops to continue giving the good ones a bad name, or we do away with having them entirely.
The problem here is that the dullest tools in the tool box have now found themselves to be in positions of superior pay and benefits in relation to many other members of our society. The superior salaries, combined with war toys being handed to them right and left, has made many of them form an opinion in their little pea brains that they are in fact superior to everyone else. The solution lies in ending pensions, lowering pay, and taking away their military weapons.
"The solution lies in ending pensions, lowering pay, and taking away their military weapons." Why stop there -- just get rid of LEOs totally - there fixed it for you.
Your a cop or retired cop who is milking the system..
There: I fixed it for you. PUSSY!
I still like the cartoon where the nice old Granny points to her cat stuck in the tree and asks the cop to get it down.
The next panel shows the cop with his smoking gun out and the dead cat at the horrified Granny's feet.
"No thanks necessary ma'am, we're here to help."
Hearkens back to the scene in Police Academy where Tackleberry (himself a caricature, but oddly enough, the unsung hero of many a vicious pig) blasts an old woman's cat out of a tree.
Glad someone finally caught one of these murderous psychopaths.
Let this be a warning to cops everywhere. We will see you. You WILL be caught.
Wishful thinking. This little piece of film catching that POS in the act of murder was in the range of the same odds of winning a lottery. To be in the EXACT place at the EXACT time for such a short period of time with the camera rolling is wildly freakish.
Then consider all of the police brutality that does NOT get captured on video. Or it does and then the camera is CONFISCATED. What is not understood here is how often this occurs because the odds are so great that someone is hiding nearby with the camera rolling.
They still can continue with brutality and unconstitutional conduct in almost all cases. There is very little hindrance to this type of behavior EXCEPT the personal cam and of course that will be turned off as well at just the right moment in time.
This is the new normal. Everyone who has a cell phone has a video camera. Notice youtube filling up with brutality videos showing cops at their finest. The tide is building.
"now imagine your pain is a white ball of healing light"
Here's a nice Miami case from 1997.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nyc.general/nCMRP62kyJ8
It may also be in Miami New Times's archives. They did an extensive write-up, I believe.
I like how laws are being written that would make it a crime to film a policeman doing his duty. Unfucking real. A man was shot in his home by police in Spartanburg, SC yesterday. Spartanburg police Have body cameras but they have not been issued.
Case closed.
That's why.
So many bank stooges and now....cop stooges too! A liberal is a conservative who finally realized there is no redress in our current system of "justice". See how banksters operate in the open....they steal and say "FUCK YOU"....
Now we have idiots who STILL trust police!
Read the official report BEFORE video and tell me the cops are not criminals!
ALWAYS FILM THE POLICE.
A liberal is a conservative who finally realized there is no redress in our current system of "justice".
I think you're confused.
A conservatives response to bad govt. is not to ask for more of it but rather less.
A liberal's view is that it takes more govt. to fix bad govt. and that more taxes are needed to do it.
Because...the children.
Me, confused? THAT is so true. I don't even know what the terms liberal and conservative mean anymore. Any definitions you would like to try? I think women have the right to their bodies and, yet, I think they should be allowed to own and carry firearms. Don't mess with a women who is pregnant and carrying a gun. Ha-ha...
The greatest violent danger to people inside America is the gangsters in uniform, except for people who live in very poor areas where ordinary criminals are more abundant and active.
You risk your life trying to document the activities of the gangsters in uniform, I am ASTONISHED that the uniformed executioners did not also shoot the videographer.
I think all law enforcement officers should go Galt. Then let all the LEO haters call their local grocery store bag boys for help when they are in trouble. You whiners are all a bunch of helpless hypocrites and are the first ones to cry "save me Mr. LEO, pretty please" when your ipad is stolen.
Never once in my half-century of life has a cop EVER helped me...NOT ONCE
I think we need special prisons to put those cops in so they can rot and starve. They are drug-running murderers.
Going "Galt" - by definition - would require that a person possess a certain level of courage and moral certainty.
Any cop possessing these traits (if they indeed exist), would not be part of the problem, or contributory to the cop-hating paradigm.
So yes - LET'S encourage all cops to go "Galt"...just don't be suprised at just how many still show up for work the next day. They will be there, because they are a collection/mixture of sniveling cowards, moral reprobates, psycho-sexual retards, and narcissistic sociopaths.
In short - ANY COP CAPABLE OF GOING GALT, IS ALREADY GONE. Any Galt-worthy cop would/could never stand behind the thin blue line for very long.
Any that do...deserve our scorn.
There's nothing hypocritical about the police doing their jobs. There is, however, something hypocritical with cops pumping themselves with enough Dianabol to make the Hulk's testicles look like jelly beans, only to spend all that macho bullshit capital on pumping five rounds into an unarmed person's back.
Cops collect money for city hall. If they ever help someone, it is an exception. The rule is they murder you whenever they can.
you must run in a tough crowd...
You guys crack me up - if it weren't for the rule of law and LEOs you wouldn't even be able to type on this blog because the ZOMBIES would already have broken through your front door and had you for lunch. But hey, enjoy the desert
Lies. The rule of law is made by people who aren't police - those who are police routinely break the law and murder to do so and this is solid evidence.
The cops are the zombies.
Haha.
He said "rule of law".
That's funny, no?
What? he's serious? Nobody has told him?
Poor guy.
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Not sure how this fits in with the above comments, but I agree with your statement
Save me Mr. LEO, by kindly goig and fucking yourself to death.
Where the hell are you from? Policemen are nothing more than moving mashed potato stuffed uniforms, with guns. I have had 2 break-ins at separate properties. One was the theft of about $50 worth of copper that caused over $40k damage. The pig says to me: looks like he climbed in through the window (such a genius, the broken latch, and open window must have been the first clue) Next, he says: do you have insurance? That's it. no investigation, no fingerprints. Why do I pay this fucker 80+k/yr?
My neighbor reported a break-in, and theft, and the woman in the cruiser never even got out of the car.
I can protect myself just fine, if it wasn't for the cops that would arrest me for carrying a loaded handgun.
They just don't care! All they care about is their paycheck, pension, and how soon they can retire.
If the wife says, "get a second job" they will. Pussies!
Police families are one of the highest risks for domestic violence, alcoholics, and divorce.
Maybe term limits should be part of the police as well as Congressmen. Just a thought. :)
Can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen so to speak.
No, thanks. I won't call LEO, ever. I'll defend myself and family on my own. Well the armed neighbors will help also.
LEO haters? More like haters of LEO who act and behave as PIGS. But I do agree with "fuck Islam"....not subtle, eh?
upvoted you for your moslum comment
Really, you can protect yourself from a horde of 1,000 lunatics burning you house down and taking your women – really? Oh wait - is that a 10,000 KW pulsed laser I see you've got there – or are you happy to see me?
The day that horde shows up most of them will be cops.
For example: The police at G20 meetings in any city anywhere. They were the horde. No one else.
Easy solution: 1) cut all budgets to all police forces with those officers, FOREVER.
2) hand out the money to everyone else they attacked or threatened to attack
a horde of 1,000 lunatics burning you house down and taking your women
LOL - like cops will protect you? Hello??? It took them three hours to enter Columbine High School, fer fuck's sake.
If the make perimeter two blocks away, you're lucky.