“And the purpose is to demonstrate that until we can wrap a context around what someone did, we cannot make judgements on it.”
I beg to differ.
Here are a couple of things that are evident from just watching the video.
Walter Scott was running away from the cop. I guess you could call it running anyway, he wasn’t going fast enough to get very far.
The cop could have run him down, or even just followed him in his cruiser and called in backup.
The cop is supposedly a professional LEO. He’s supposedly trained to make decisions like this. It’s his job.
He shot 8 times and hit the guy what? 5 times.
So I’m not speculating about anything that happened before but just from the video the cop sucks at threat evaluation and to add to that he acted in the extreme.
Maybe he was just POd or maybe he was in a fear frenzy.
Hard to say he didn’t have intent to kill since he fired 8 times.
Yes, everything you said is why this is not the Zimmerman or brown case.
The only thing I differ with is your speculation on what he should have or could have done. It is not exactly the same, but similar to the old “couldn’t he have shot the gun out of his hand?” argument.
I think that at the very least he showed poor judgement. But that often goes along with acting emotionally rather than logically.
On the other hand, it’s actually possible that this cop was a racist that figured he wasn’t letting that “n-word” getting away with messing up his uniform.
Yes, I do realize it could be something like that.
It’s why I think it will get interesting as facts come out.
I have a feeling this has a lot more in common with the cop that shot the black guy going into his car to get his license than the Brown shooting.