Posted on 04/12/2015 3:58:09 AM PDT by IChing
On the first day we saw the North Charleston, South Carolina, shooting video of Walter Scott by Officer Michael Slager we were as shocked as everyone. However, as research now indicates there is much more to the story.
What we cover here in the latest update might just change the entire way the story continues…
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
Michael Slager could have told us that immediately, but he's apparently still getting his story straight...
But I thought there would be ZERO debate after cam footage from officers was there? Guess I was wrong.
You might be correct, but again I think its important to establish the facts of this incident in order to properly analyze it.
Scott provided a license before he took off running which makes me think he wasn't very bright. Did it make more sense to stay with the car and check out the passenger or deal with the dummy who handed over his license before taking off?
"Confrontation Uber Alles"
Besides, Walter Scott committed "felony contempt of cop".
And, when Slager caught up to him and started pawing him, Walter Scott was gonna assault him, too.
Pre-crime, dontchaknow?
It would be nice if the polices started thinking twice about their driving need to drive a peasant's face into the dirt while they're handcuffing them...
Yet the leads are pulled forward when Scott ran, that might lead the officer into thinking Scott still had the taser.
Well, our opinion is different. The jury will decide in the end.
Thanks for keeping it civil.
The Taser has been fired. It cannot be fired again without a new cartridge.
Slager is well aware that the Taser has been fired.
Even if Scott had the Taser, he could only use it in contact mode, as a regular Taser.
Scott was no more dangerous than any other person with a personal Taser.
no. that directive cannot be in force forever. for example, if the suspect S takes away officer O’s taser in 2015, drops the taser, gets away, and then O meets S 30 years later by chance, the directive to use deadly force is not a procedural option available for use by O.
this is because the imminent threat no longer exists.
your example is imho typical of cop-think.
that is, apply force (including deadly force) regardless of whether it makes any sense.
are you a cop?
and if you are a cop, you have made my point (thanks) that cop training is seriously flawed.
the taser is not a deadly weapon.
The darts are fired once but pulling the trigger can give multiple jolts. The Tasers the PD and the SO carry here carry two cartridges, one in the fire position and one in the grip. If the wires come in contact with skin they can also deliver a jolt.
stating hypotheticals is fine, unless it obfuscates analysis with less-than-relevant information. there seems to be an excess of less-than-relevant hypothesizing going on in this thread already.
Says you?
You know better than that. Forget your /sarc?
the taser is a weapon which is designed to incapacitate, but not to kill.
if you think otherwise, you are welcome to argue with a taser engineer, dictionary, or yourself in the mirror.
Funny thing is the “author” (theconservativetreehouse.com) seems to have well established credibility. Who we gonna believe?
Yep, I must be delusional to think I’d be able to open closed minds and eyes.
True. I misused that word.
The Conservative Treehouse did a SUPER job on Trayvon the Purple Drank Fight Club thug.
I'm not sure they're barking up the right tree here.
All you want to see is your guy worming out from under the murder he committed. Good luck with that.
The fact is that it appears to have been Slager's time of the month, and therefore it was Walter Scott's unlucky day.
Or maybe Slager ALWAYS "fears for his authority"...
one salient difference between the grant and scott shootings is that in the scott shooting, the alleged perpetrator has so far not claimed to have confused his taser for his handgun.
And while I have you incapacitated with the taser I can take your duty weapon and kill you.
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