It’s very clear that Scott and Slager were in combat on the ground with Scott over the officer, Scott got the taser as they rose up and Scott shot the officer with the taser gun. Scott had proven himself to be extremely dangerous and willing to go to extreme degrees to resist arrest. Totally justified shooting.
Regarding the murder charge, SLED is a political office meant to provide cover to the state administration. Slager is getting sacrificed to the wolves to prevent another Ferguson.
I agree there is more to this story.
But the video speaks for itself.
Shoot an unarmed man in the back when he was running away?
Going to be a tough sell.
Where is the taser barb and the resulting blood from a taser barb wound? Where is the report that Slager ever had a taser barb in him from any of the responding officers?
Quite a bit of audio/video/radio calls have been released from after the shooting. If Scott shot Slager with the Taser, then why didn't Slager say so? And in the initial police statements about the shooting (which were supportive of Slager, before the video was released), why did they not say anything about Scott shooting Slager with the taser?
Your entire argument that this was a justified shooting is based on an assumption that is not supported by a shred of evidence.
Bottomline, He shot him in the back. The threat was abated priot to the murder, No amount of excuses can support the claim that he felt threatened.
Absolute nonsense. Have you lost your mind? If that was a justified shooting, then there's no such thing as an unjustified shooting. At the time the officer shot the man in the back several times, he was no threat to the officer or anybody else.
Juries, when trying such cases, often apply a standard of what a reasonable person would do in the same situation. I just don't see how the officer is going to make the case that he was reasonably in fear for his life, or that the public was in danger.
Q. How often do cops get fired by their departments and charged with murder for shooting someone?
A. Once in a blue moon.
And yet the State of South Carolina has, after reviewing the evidence, seen fit to charge this officer with murder. He also tried to plant evidence, and should be additionally charged with evidence tampering, obstruction of justice, and so on.
IMHO, the shooting was not justified, and in view of that fact, this former police officer is going to go to prison for manslaughter at the very least.