Posted on 09/25/2014 10:42:36 AM PDT by redreno
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An unarmed man shot by a South Carolina trooper during a traffic stop repeated one question through his anguished cries as he lay wounded, waiting for an ambulance: "Why did you shoot me?"
Levar Jones' painful groans and then-Trooper Sean Groubert's reply — "Well you dove head first back into your car" — were captured by a dashboard camera in the trooper's car.
Groubert had stopped Jones on a seatbelt violation at a Columbia gas station and fired the shots moments after asking Jones for his license
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"Stupid man claiming to be great hero gets his head blown off...film in color at 11"
If a cop can’t handle a traffic stop in a gas station without shooting an unarmed man who was obeying his orders, then the cop needs to find a new line of work. I’ve been in combat, I’ve had a drunk guy try to come in thru a window, and I haven’t panicked and shot anyone yet.
Cops don’t have the right to shoot because there is a 1% chance that someone is doing something bad. They actually need some REASON to be afraid.
As a CCW kind of guy, I also cannot shoot someone just because they seem to be following me, or even just because they shout threats at me. I would need to wait until there was a viable threat to my life. There is a reason the cops have fired this guy!
Exactly what kind of combat were in in where you never "shot anyone yet"? And, you, my FRiend, are not the judge of whether there is "1% chance that someone is doing something bad." So, like I said...go out there and protect AZ with your idiotic, self-aggrandizing, indestructible, mental attitude (unarmed and unwilling to shoot), and we'll watch for you in the news.
Fine. You go out and shoot everyone is sight because one just never knows where the danger lurks...
BTW - in combat, you do not shoot anyone for any reason. There are ROE and you are expected to obey them. At a minimum, you are expected to make some attempt to kill the enemy but NOT everyone else in the country.
Been a platoon leader so I am well aware of ROE. And, if you believe this fellow shot everyone else in the area, you belong in Ferguson.
He fired multiple shots and only hit once, from very close range. Good luck convincing anyone he was behaving calmly. And where did those other bullets go, and was he depending on luck not to kill someone nearby?
oh please...
Cops have the right to go home alive after an encounter...no more, or less, then those they encounter.
The guy pulled over on a seatbelt violation has no less right to go home alive than the cop who pulls him over.
The guy on the other side of the door from some 'dynamic entry' fiasco has as much right to live through the encounter as the cops who are knocking down the door.
That's where you and I seem to differ.
The so-called "right to go home alive" cops hide behind can't come at the expense of someone caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.
If I'm in my home and the door is broken down for a "dynamic entry" no-knock raid by a SWAT team due to a mistaken address, it's not me who is in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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