Posted on 04/08/2015 1:56:00 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
A white police officer in North Charleston, South Carolina has been charged with murder after video emerged of him shooting an unarmed black man in the back while he was trying to run away, reports the Charleston Post and Courier. The two had been involved in a scuffle.
The man, 50-year-old Walter Scott, died Saturday after Patrolman 1st Class Michael Slager, 33, shot at him eight times, though it is not immediately clear how many shots hit him. Scott had been stopped for a broken tail light, and he ran from police because he owed child support, said his family, according to New York Times reporter Matt Apuzzo.
On Tuesday afternoon, Mayor Keith Summey said that the officers bad decision had led to his arrest on the charge of murder.
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That cop murdered that guy in cold blood
The cop should fry
I’m glad there is a video -
This was one of the 10 worst shootings I have ever seen by law enforcement.
And if someone reviews the old threads following this incident, you see more than a few supporting the shooter.
Good people tend to believe cops absent any extraordinary evidence.
Even when the other person is proved innocent they tend to think they must have done something incorrect or the police would not have gone after them.
Maybe there was a time when that was true.
Answer: He did not know he was being recorded. Not only that, but had he not been recorded he would (100%) have gotten away with what he did. The only reason anyone is talking about this is because some passerby recorded the incident, otherwise without that video that cop would definitely have gotten away with the shooting. A bit chilling to think of it that way - that the only reason he is even standing trial is because of pure bad luck for him in the form of a stranger with a cellphone camera, and that if that had not been the case, that the cop would be back on the beat.
This event happened back in April 2015. Who is talking about
it now? Has it gotten back on some appeals process?
I have no words. I saw this on my current feed, and responded. I just realized the date. Im actually quite dumbfounded on how that happened. Mea culpa
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