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A Closer Look at the Walter Scott Shooting
nbcnews.com ^ | April 8th 2015 | NBC News

Posted on 04/09/2015 5:06:24 PM PDT by Marie

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To: Scotswife

The dashcam video shows that Scott took off while the cop was running his drivers license. Up until that point, things were civil. He knew he had a warrant for missing a child support hearing and, apparently, didn’t want to be arrested.

Stupid, stupid.

Worth being shot?

No.

But still, very stupid.


21 posted on 04/09/2015 5:45:05 PM PDT by Marie
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To: Abigail Adams
"There seems to be a need for basic “what not to do around cops” lessons"

Of all people, Chris Rock put together such a course a few years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR465HoCWFQ

22 posted on 04/09/2015 5:50:55 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Abigail Adams

Preventable?

Maybe not.

Think about it a moment, a cop who would shoot you in the back probably doesn’t need any excuse to shoot you from any distance for any reason.


23 posted on 04/09/2015 5:57:22 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (The Gruber Revelations are proof that God is still smiling on America.)
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To: Marie
This police officer was on a fishing expedition. Remember the reason for the stop was a broken tail light (oldest police excuse in the book) where if he was a true civil servant he would have told him about the tail light and let him go. But no, he was running the license and if Scott had not ran he would have ended up with a ticket or the police officer would have done something to provoke an incident.
This police officer was a bad one who had no problem shooting somebody, and we will probably find that he had had complaints that had been buried by his superiors.
24 posted on 04/09/2015 6:17:16 PM PDT by Wooly
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To: Abigail Adams

I see a taser coming my way I will rabbit everytime. Those things are bad news. There is no way I would just stand there and accept the tase. My next door neighbor has one of those on the end of a flashlight. Just the sound of it gives me the heebie jeebies. :-)


25 posted on 04/09/2015 6:32:10 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Wooly

Who is Michael T. Slager?

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/08/us/south-carolina-michael-slager/


26 posted on 04/09/2015 6:34:25 PM PDT by Marie
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To: MeshugeMikey

Wrong police abuse case.

There was another thread about *this* case where somebody was saying that the 25 year old thug had drugs in the car and made a video about shooting cops. Again, wrong police abuse case.

This is the story about a 50 year old man who was shot in the back while running away. No drugs in the car. He wasn’t a 25 year old thug.

And there was no horse! lol!

(I know it’s tough to keep all of the latest police abuse cases straight this week...)


27 posted on 04/09/2015 6:41:49 PM PDT by Marie
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To: Abigail Adams

Real life evidence supporting what I said in post #23 can be found here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3277613/posts?page=100#100


28 posted on 04/09/2015 6:44:32 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (The Gruber Revelations are proof that God is still smiling on America.)
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To: Marie

Thanks.


29 posted on 04/09/2015 6:51:08 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Marie

I would not call what he was doing as running. Even my fat butt could have caught the guy and tripped him.


30 posted on 04/09/2015 7:29:17 PM PDT by BBell
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To: Marie

What in this video convinces you that the taser is not what Officer Slager dropped next to Scott’s handcuffed body?


31 posted on 04/09/2015 10:06:08 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
The way I'm seeing it, the real scandal here is not that some trigger-happy cop shot a man in cold blood, but rather, the fact that the local police seemed willing to cover it up until the video came to light.

+1

32 posted on 04/10/2015 7:34:09 AM PDT by zeugma ( The Clintons Could Find a Loophole in a Stop Sign)
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To: MeshugeMikey

True, but absent in today’s technological world where the cops had all they need to pick this guy up within hours.

And both former Coasties too. Very sad.


33 posted on 04/10/2015 7:45:37 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: BuckeyeTexan

The object fell off the cop’s belt when he grabbed Scott by the wrist. Then he tasered Scott. Then he shot scott, taser still in hand.

After, he retrieved the object, walked back and dropped that same object near the body.

He had the taser with him the whole time. He picked up the object in one hand, never transferred it and it was the object in that same hand that he dropped.


34 posted on 04/10/2015 9:58:56 AM PDT by Marie
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To: Marie

He didn’t shoot Scott with the taser still in his hand. When he reached for his gun, his left hand was empty. As he raised his gun, he pulled his left hand up to brace his gun as he shot. Standard shooting technique.

The taser was certainly not in the holster on his left hip when he went for his gun. It wasn’t in his left hand when he shot Scott. Has to be on the ground somewhere if Scott didn’t have it.


35 posted on 04/11/2015 9:59:04 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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