Absent Lesser Charges Than Murder, Officer Michael Slager Will Go Free

ClashDaily.com ^ | 4/17/15 | Donald Joy

[MileHi]

...such cases are NOT to be tried the same as those involving regular citizens.

I never consented to give armed government employees (who work for me) more rights than I have. If I would be imprisoned for doing something, so should cops be.

[Boogieman]

“Who said it was a defense?”

I did.

[driftdiver]

""This has been applied to the law enforcement setting where a police officer, after being in physical combat, is justified in using deadly force but then the circumstances change in front of him. An officer may neurologically be unable to stop firing until either the suspect is down or several seconds elapse.” "

Combat?

[IChing]

So you missed the part about the SCOTUS ruling in Graham v. Connor, then, or disagree with it.

[IChing]

Did you miss the part where they are both on the ground, with Scott on top of Slager?

[Boogieman]

Right, regular citizens are not afforded the same kind of leeway that police have when they shoot people. You might be alright with that, but I certainly am not.

[MileHi]

I don’t know the law there. Is murder just murder, or are there degrees?

I don’t think Slager planned to kill Scott. I also don’t think it was a “good shoot”.

[IChing]

South Carolina doesn’t have degrees of murder, just murder. And I agree with you.

[DoodleDawg]

Do you think Slager will get a fair trial?

I think Slager will get a fair trial, I think the murder charge is appropriate, and I think the taser claim is a figment if conservativetreehouse's imagination.

[MileHi]

So you missed the part about the SCOTUS ruling in Graham v. Connor, then, or disagree with it.

I didn't miss it. To the extent it is understood to convey extra rights to government employees, I disagree with it.

[IChing]

More like mitigating factor/circumstances.

[IChing]

There are sound specific reasons for it.

[driftdiver]

And this article is about what? murder charges.

[rbg81]

If there was a struggle beforehand, it should be manslaughter.

[IChing]

Fresh analysis by Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse:

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/04/17/walter-scott-shooting-the-case-for-lesser-charges/

[digger48]

For later

[Lurker]

The only thing bigger than the pile of words wasted on this drivel is the pile of BS the author is trying to get us to swallow.

L

[IChing]

Not exclusively. Read it.

[driftdiver]

“I don’t think Slager planned to kill Scott. I also don’t think it was a “good shoot”.”

I don’t think Slager planned to kill Scott when he made the stop. I think Slager was following his training though. Up until he threw the taser next to Scott.

If you or I did this we would be in jail for 2nd degree murder.

[driftdiver]

I did. Its horse pucky but you knew that.