Posted on 04/12/2015 3:58:09 AM PDT by 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…
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I didn’t know that the officers reports had been released. Do you have a source? The video clearly shows taser barbs hanging from Slagers’s body and leg.
Me too. You bet.
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.
Are you a cop? If not, he'd probably turn you in.
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 suspect that it is. Cops don't rat on one another.
By the way, you should do some research on a conservative web site. Every day more and more laws are being made, and analysts say a majority of people are in violation of some l;aw or regulation at all times without even knowing it. You are probably in violation of three right now.
He was a cop, wasn’t he? There are those on this forum who believe everything a cop does is justified.
The officer may not have been necessarily planting evidence. He may have been recovering the taser instead of leaving it unsecured??? Another officer was standing right there next to Mr. Scott.
I hope we get some answers soon, but releasing information to the public is extremely slow.
Huh? In post 416 you say something different don’t you....or am I somehow misreading your posts?
In the absence of facts, they speculate and hypothesize. Just as we do.
Are cops trained/taught to ‘shoot to wound’? (See post 341). I had not head that one.
You don’t move anything or plant anything in a shooting scene. Your guy did each one of those.
Maybe the officer figured if the guy attacked him and could possibly have still had the taser in his posession, Scott could have attacked someone else?? The only way to know what the officer’s reasoning was is to ask him. Only a jury that hears every piece of evidence can resolve this. Lets hope when the verdict comes people will respect it.
I would need to know what your mind is thinking.
If you google “police officers convicted of conspiracy” you might get quite the eye opener.
I’m not anti-cop, but I’m also not naive enough to think it never happens.
Police officers are taught to wound without killing whenever possible. At least that’s what my nephew who is a State Trooper says. If the police are being fired upon, that’s a different situation.
No, I am not, and I bet he would too.
I have heard about the Blue Code too, but if I was a cop and saw another cop framing a man who he just shot to death, he would get ratted on.
That would probably not make me to popular, but I would rather be unpopular than a party to that.
Have a link?...I have not seen that video yet.
Ultimately what matters is the knowable facts and a fair trial based on legal standards set by the law and Supreme Court decisions, not Libertarians trying to convict any and all cops on the Internet with their own set of standards.
Premeditation necessary to raise murder to the first degree can occur in an instant. The accused does not have to plan the murder beforehand, he merely has to have an opportunity to reflect and act deliberately. "Premeditation is defined as more than a mere intent to kill; it is a fully formed conscious purpose to kill ... This purpose to kill may be formed a moment before the act but must exist for a sufficient length of time to permit reflection as to the nature of the act to be committed and the probable result of that act." See Berube v. State, 5 So. 3d 734 (Fla. Sup. Ct. 2009). See also People v. Harris, 185 P. 3d 727 (Ca. Sup Ct. 2008), "The process of premeditation and deliberation does not require any extended period of time. The true test is not the duration of time as much as it is the extent of the reflection. Thoughts may follow each other with great rapidity and cold, calculated judgment may be arrived at quickly."
I would argue after looking at the video that perhaps no more than the first three shots were done without premeditation, but certainly after that officer had a time to reflect on what he was doing by virtue of the following deliberate shots 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, he had formed the requisite intent to kill sufficient to be guilty of premeditation.
Source of report?
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