Judge Dredd strikes again...get your license - complying is suspicious so get out of the car, getting out of the car is also suspicious so BANG, I guess he didn’t also stomp on the guys face too?
These incidents are getting far too common
Wow talk about a hair trigger
The best face you can put on this one is “the cop is an idiot”.
The cop is a trigger happy little jerk who has no business wearing a badge. A citizen pulls into a gas station to go inside for something and a cop pulls up,draws his weapon and starts shooting. I hope this ex cop does time.
BS...he mellowed out real quick when he realized he f'ed up.
I think the officer should, without a trial be (no longer an officer)... Of any kind.
Yea, in a perfect world.
Good thing this was on camera or the cop could’ve said ANYTHING and most everyone (including a majority on this very site) would’ve accepted it at face value.
I have no sympathy for this cop. The victim complied fully and kept everything above board. South Carolina is going to take a financial hit on this one.
Judge Dredd strikes again...I think the the morons that train these cops full them full of fear about "You've got to shoot first so you go home safe!", and so overtrain the cops to shoot, and in this case shoot an innocent civilian complying with police.
Had there not been a video, the "police trainers" also tell the cop exactly what to say: "I was in fear for my life".
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I am astonished that the police department didn’t erase/lose/corrupt/oops-not-working the video of this event.
That cop was insane.
Now days not wearing a seat belt is as serious in a cops eyes as a felony or serious Moving Violation? It seems so. Seat belt Law should not be a stoppable offense period nor one that goes on a persons driving record as such. Meaning simply no license should be suspended or revokes and no fines for not wearing seat belts.
My state Tennessee has gone way overboard on the Seat Belt Law harassment as well. Taxpayers paid likely hundreds of millions of dollars for an Interstate Marque Early Warning Traffic Alert System to give traffic information. 95% of the time the only information you see on them is Barney Fife type warnings about seat belt laws or similar reminders. The state even purchases prime Billboard space to remind everyone they are the Law.
Seat Belts are a good idea but not all persons can wear them especially with the incorporated shoulder harness that climbs up a persons neck and continues to tighten itself while driving. I can't stand the top two buttons of my shirt to be buttoned nor a collar touch my neck or throat how can I be expected to wear a seat belt with a shoulder harness? It is a ridiculous as the mandatory child seating laws forcing parents to place kids where they can not be seen meaning in the back they go. That Nanny State idiotic idea has likely caused more accidents and injuries by distracted parents trying to look back at the kid than the seating placement itself.
Goobermunt, making criminals out of citizens with each new legislative session. If a local or state money needs revenue there are better ways to get it than simply making more things either licensed or fine imposing offenses.
I watched the video, and heard the audio.
The cop was fired, and will stand trial for his actions.
Absent additional facts, not in evidence, that the victim was known by the cop to be a habitual violent criminal offender, I'm good with the ex-cop doing some serious jail time for attempted murder, under color of law.
We citizens also deserve to go about our daily lives,and to go home, unmolested and not assaulted by police, at the end of our work shifts too!
We don't expect to be assaulted by armed revenuers dressed up as LEOs.
sorry....we citizens shouldn’t have to put on such an act....we are innocent....we shouldn’t have to have a charade of doing e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g..i.n...s.l.o.m.o.t.i.o.n so the cop doesn’t kill us...the onus is on the cop to behave professionally...
As far as I can see from the video, the first thing that the officer should have told the suspect was to step away from his vehicle instead of asking suspect for license.
What am I overlooking?
I am far more wary of idiot cops than I am thugs and terrorists. It’s an odds thing. With thugs I can do what is necessary, shoot, run, stab.... With cops all I can hope for is that they are smart enough, and sensible enough not to start shooting. It seems a lot of them would rather shoot people than dogs. It’s like a right of passage from dumb arse to seasoned killer.