lol A reasonable person would not believe that a persons visible and empty hands possessed a weapon. A reasonable person would not believe that a person running away from them with empty hands was an imminent threat.
Those of us who believe that the citizens of this country make the rules are tired of the policies and training which result in people dead without a trial.
Make up your mind. First you claimed it didn’t matter what Slager believed, then you say the case hinges on it(it does). Graham v. Connor, genius
The original fight that occurred at the start of the sidewalk was not on the truncated video released to the public.
There appears to have been a witness to that first struggle, which seems to have taken around 2 minutes. It weill be interesting to see that witness testimony in court, if the grand jury doesn’t return a “no-bill” (which would surprise me).
We do not know who was tasered, if either of them were- just that the taser appears to have been was discharged, and that wires seem entangled on both men in the released truncated video recording of the end of the encounter.
We can see a very blurry image of Scott on top of Slager at the beginning of that video, but can’t tell what he is doing to Slager. He could be trying to choke him, or he could be trying to get up to run again.
None of us want to see someone shot in the back by an Officer for no apparent cause, but I do not think we can assume that this is the case just yet. There is too much that we do not yet know.
Reading through this thread has been an interesting experience. I always assumed that most Freepers used reason, not emotion, and were not easily swayed by media manipulations. I also thought that we were supposed to look for good links to support our opinions and speculations, not our personal biases.
When posters resort to insults and ad hominem attacks on other posters, many of us spot the tactic and assume the poster has an agenda.