Posted on 04/11/2015 10:32:21 AM PDT by PROCON
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Less than two months before he was killed, Walter Lamer Scott turned 50 and wanted everyone around him to join in the celebration.
It was February, and Scott's family had taken him to dinner at a Japanese steakhouse. As waiters and other staff gathered around to sing "Happy Birthday," Scott jumped up on the table and started dancing.
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It's the Gruberment. They don't need logic.
They have gunthugs, who can shoot you in the back [off-camera] if you don't "follow orders".
Well, even if you do follow orders, but not the right ones from the three different cops who are shouting orders at you at the same time (Ask Erik Scott. Never mind, he's dead.)
And for the immediate family. And for the dog.
Don't forget the dog.
`Deadbeat Dad Beat Dead’
Is it racist to judge using a creepyass cracka measuring stick? Da gots dare on culcha, you know mofo.
Used to be called “visible means of support”.
Itinerant black male, driving a Mercedes Benz? Must have had it financed for a 30 year note, or was stolen or was result of drug dealing.
yes, about the car, that the news people don’t ever mention...he said he had no insurance on it, no registration and he was ‘going to buy it’...sounds fishy, like stolen?? Hence taking off, yet another reason??
license, registration and insurance please? Oh, you don’t have insurance? Oh, you don’t have registration? Oh, you’re going to buy the car?? Those were the questions the cop was asking, and while the cop was back at his car the guy got out of his car once, was told to get back in, obeyed and then a few minutes later he took off from the car. (Warrant for unpaid child support one possible reason, stolen car perhaps another??, waiting for more on the evidence)
Something is fishy about the whole story..first of all, the actual police stop, nothing unusual about it, cop acted friendly, so did Mr. Scott..everything going normally as it should of, then Mr. Scott gets out of his car, the cop tells him to get back in, Mr. Scott gets back in, then he decides to make a run for it, over child support payments? I dont know, I doubt this cop would have arrested him because he owed back child support, you know how many people owe back child support I doubt if they get stopped by the police they all end up in the pokey
According to the articles I’ve read, he was $18,000 behind in child support payments. But throwing him in jail isn’t going to produce and payments from an ongoing job, unless his wages are court-garnished for payment. As a former business owner, I went thru that court paperwork, separate checks, deadlines etc crap with 2 former employees. It puts an undue burden on the employer.
Bingo.
I think the cop is guilty of murder but the left will over play their hand as usual and make this guy out to be the next Medgar Evers (Or as Hillary would say Medgar Evans).
Because he had no insurance and no registration (required by anyone owning a vehicle, especially when pulled over by the cops), which is common for someone who is driving a vehicle that doesn't belong to them........IT WAS NOT HIS CAR.
The account I read was that he was going to purchase the car from a friend............
That might be true but if not, lets see how long it takes before the MSM reports it was stolen by Scott......
They're digging up arrest records on this guy back to 1987. Rest assured, if that car was stolen they'd be shouting it from the rooftops.
Not sure I see the logic here.
The law was originally designed to protect mothers with child custody against fathers who were employed but failed to live up to their court ordered obligations........
Unfortunately the system has no means to properly address the issues such as this that involves a chronically unemployed deadbeat dad who obviously has no intention of ever becoming a contributing member of society...........
The laws that govern you and I mean nothing to this guy and so the best place for him to be if he were still alive is in jail
“Isn’t that the same as debtors’ prison?”
Yes it is and it the only debt, aside from taxes, that you can be jailed for not paying.
And quite frankly I agree with you, it’s one thing if some one has tons of money and just won’t write the check, but if you’re some poor schmuck putting you in jail will not hasten payment, it will likely only delay it, or make it impossible altogether.
I don’t know any particulars about this man Scott and I’m just speaking in general. But, in his case, they’ll get that child support now, out of the money they’ll win in the wrongful death suit that will surely be brought. Glad it’ll work out for his kids.
Yeah, as a general rule, taxes and child suport.
But if the judge find you in contempt of court—thinking you’re not taking the whole `appear and explain your failure to pay’ thing seriously—you can be jailed for contempt on any debt.
Sure, you pretty much have to shoot the judge the bird in court, but jail-time following proceedings supplemental to execution on any judgment and a recalcitrant judgment-defendant, it happens all the time.
Avoiding it is a lot like success in life: just show up.
And then not run when asked for information.
The cop would have arrested him on an outstanding warrant. The cop did not know about it because the car was still registered in his mother’s name. Once he entered the guys name in the database, he would have been arrested. That’s why he ran.
“it is a lot like success in life: just show up.”
Yes, wasn’t it Woody Allen who said that was 90% of it?
In debtor’s prison an inmate worked off his debt. Jailing someone for nonpayment of child support is a punishment. Imho.
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