Had the cop not shot him in the back from a distance of 20 feet and greater none of this would have happened.
Don’t direct it back just answer the question. let me help! Nobody but the suspect knew he was unarmed, the officer had no way of knowing. What the officer did know at the time of the shooting was he had a combative possibly armed felon trying to flee.
But again, if fleeing from a police officer is grounds for him to shoot Walter Scott then why not just shoot him the moment he started running at the original stop? Since the cop had no idea if he was armed then either?
“But again, if fleeing from a police officer is grounds for him to shoot Walter Scott then why not just shoot him the moment he started running at the original stop? Since the cop had no idea if he was armed then either?”
At that point he wasn’t a threat but he did turn it into a felony. The fight with the officer upgraded it to a threat. But let me also add that the suspect escalated this from a simple stop to a chase and fight that ended in his death. The suspect was in control of this situation from the start. Suspect made at least two bad decisions resulting in his death. One dead dumbarse.