Game Changer OR Paradigm Shift ?--Walter Scott Shooting: Enhanced Video Shows Officer Slager With...

The Conservative Treehouse ^ | 4/12/15 | sundance

[IChing]

On the first day we saw the North Charleston, South Carolina, shooting video of Walter Scott by Officer Michael Slager we were as shocked as everyone. However, as research now indicates there is much more to the story.

What we cover here in the latest update might just change the entire way the story continues…

[fso301]

Seriously— the cop already lied. Who on earth would believe the cop if he started talking about the suspect grabbing his gun now? Something that the world will never learn (unless there is another video that shows it).

Can you not recognize that I was merely stating a hypothetical?

[nickcarraway]

That’s why the common law allowed cops to shoot fleeing felons

There have been threads on FR about how expanding laws by government in recent years mean, at any given time, more than 75% of people could be considered felons.

[Vermont Lt]

So you think the cop was justified?

[101stAirborneVet]

So far, that only exists in your mind.

Also in this still from the cell phone video. Notice the officer is on the ground. Hm what's the suspect doing in this image? Hmmmmm.

This was seconds before the officer fired.

[Karl Spooner]

Can you not recognize that I was merely stating a hypothetical?

Don't take this here nor there. But do you notice on all of the police videos the cops do nothing but hypothesize? The law means nothing to them.

[familyop]

Interesting. Tasers are non-lethal weapons. Use of a taser is not use of deadly force, according to the courts. And what-ifs are irrelevant without evidence of attempted use of deadly force.

[bobby.223]

“They are taught to try to wound without killing”. Huh!? Anybody care to weigh in on this?

[DoodleDawg]

Garner states that deadly force “may not be used unless necessary to prevent (an) escape and the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others.”

And how did Walter Scott pose a significant threat of death or injury to anyone?

[conservativejoy]

I’m not convinced that what we know at this point constitutes murder. Mr. Scott fought with this police officer for over two minutes, then tased the officer. As he was running away, the wires from the taser can be seen stretching from Mr. Scott back toward the officer in such a way that the officer could reasonably have thought Mr. Scott was still in posession of the taser. Let’s wait and see what the investigation shows once all the information is known. What we do know is that Mr. Scott assaulted the officer.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

So you are saying that the cop would be fine with being made an accomplice of Slager’s planting of evidence by his doing it right in front of him?

I wasn't saying anything. I asked a question.

But what makes you think that the 2nd cop would expect to do any time for covering up for his brother in blue?

[DoodleDawg]

I just don’t think it’s as clear cut as you’re making it out to be.

It is exactly as clear cut as it appears. There was absolutely no danger posed by Walter Scott to anyone, much less the police officer, when he was shot 5 times in the back.

[Crim]

Yup...that’s why I take issue with wild speculation and half truths from blogs...

I also find it incredibly hsrd to believe that a taser barb was in Slager and yet none of the other officers put it in their reports.

[bobby.223]

I thought that there had been some sort of physical fight between the officer and the dead guy where they had been tussling around on the ground somewhere prior to the shooting.

[Karl Spooner]

According to Santana, the officer is on top of him when he came upon the scene. At a certain point in time you have to assume he was able enough to run. I guess this means he would be on top at this point to enable that. No?

[conservativejoy]

The attack of the officer is shown on the video and lasted for over two minutes.

[DoodleDawg]

....and, if he shot that cop with a tazer,no jury will convict.

Meanderings of this blog aside there is absolutely no evidence that Slager was shot with the tazer. If he had been then it would have been in his police report. And if it was in the police report it would have been leaked long before now.

Man, these cops are trying to police these animals, yet they keep getting slammed for it, from the whitehouse on down, You can sure tell a democrat is in the whitehouse.

The cops in question are gunning people down without cause. Doesn't that bother you in the slightest?

[chris37]

I can’t say what he would expect or not.

I can say what I would expect, and that is if I saw a cop plant evidence in front of me, I’d turn him in.

The only thing that matters to me is truth.

I would also be very sad to learn that the planting of evidence is so routine that one cop would do it right in front of another without expecting any trouble from doing so at all.

I really hope that is not the case.

[chris37]

Whether or not he lied, he is entitled to present his defense and explain why what happened happen, and I will listen to his explanation.

If he has something to say that can explain this, then I want to hear it.

[DoodleDawg]

..and maybe tased him....the latter is yet unknown

Regardless of all the fiction that Slager put into his police report don't you think that if he had been tazed then he would have included that salient bit of information? After all it would have bolstered his claim that he had cause to fear for his life and therefore had to shoot Scott, even in the back. Yet he didn't. Why?

[Karl Spooner]

I thought that there had been some sort of physical fight between the officer and the dead guy where they had been tussling around on the ground somewhere prior to the shooting.

The only eyewitness, Santana, says that is true.