Posted on 04/07/2015 4:24:56 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
Cop charged with murder of motorist after jarring video surfaces
CHARLESTON, S.C. — A white South Carolina police officer has been charged with murder in the shooting death of a black motorist after a traffic stop. North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey told a hastily called news conference that city Patrolman Michael Thomas Slager was arrested and charged Tuesday after law enforcement officials saw a video of the shooting following a Saturday traffic stop. Authorities say the victim, 50-year-old Walter Lamer Scott of Charleston, was shot after the officer already hit him with a stun gun.
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“Civilian police are civilians.”
But, they don’t think they are. And that is the main problem.
This is what life in a police state looks like. Rejoice! Its change.
When a person who has “put you in fear of your life” has his back toward you and is 50 feet away running away from you fast, the imminent danger to you is over. The video shows that was the case here. That cop was in no danger.
Don’t try this yourself if you have a carry permit. Or,
even if you dont. You will be charged with murder too. Just like this assassin was.
Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.
This is what Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1 (1985) says, in part ...
Thus, if ... there is probable cause to believe that he has committed a crime involving the infliction or threatened infliction of serious physical harm, deadly force may be used if necessary to prevent escape, and if, where feasible, some warning has been given.But this sort of justification does not apply when the shooter is a civilian.
Of course, on FR, knee-jerk reactions are always occurring, and, if knee-jerking were an Olympic sport, FReepers would always be atop the podium.
We own the gold in Jumping-to-Conclusions
On the ugly side, maybe an epidemic of people running from car stops will commence.
If you watch the video you can see a black item on the ground that the shootee drops just before he starts running away. It could be the taser. However, the guy isn’t running that fast and the cop could have chased him down. But the cop fired eight times and the guy fell to the ground. The idiot recording the scene needs some lessons in using his camera phone.
Very informative. Thanks for the cite!!!
The first thing that glares at me makes me not want to read the article. They couldn’t go anymore out of the way to make it a White on Black case. If it was the other way around then no mention of color would be made.
Really? I wonder how well you’d do with a camera phone while bullets were flying. I think the person using the camera phone did a nice job.
Okay, hole_n_one, answer this: the video shows the cop planting the weapon on the victim. Please explain how that was legitimate and justified, and not what the video clearly shows: a cop guilty of shooting an unarmed man in the back planting a weapon on the body.
LOL, no.
That's not a slippery slope - that's a greased slide to Aushwitz.
I’ll just use you as exhibit A.
Something occurred that got the attention of the cellphone video guy, and made him start his camera.
What happened before the video starts can not be determined from this video.
So what?
Well, I am a professional videographer, so...
All of these videos seem to start that way. They only start rolling after the fight has ended. It’s like a sixth sense with these people.
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