Not the greatest photo to support your point. If democracy supports Islam, then democracy must lose!
Posted on 04/07/2015 6:04:54 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Yes, just before he starts shooting with both hands.
Just after handcuffing the guy, he trots back towards the pathway and appears to pick something up from the grass on the far side of the path. The object that was in front of his foot still appears to be where it was.
Then he returns to the victim as another officer approaches. It appears he may have planted evidence at that point. Did he run over and retrieve the Taser from the grass and drop it by the body?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEzYcrq3A38
Even without the video, there is probably enough evidence to support a murder conviction. With the video, it's the proverbial slam dunk!
Correct, you have misunderstood it. The presumption of innocence applies to a court of law.
FR is not a court of law, but rather a discussion forum. No one's opinion here makes a suspect guilty.
Not the greatest photo to support your point. If democracy supports Islam, then democracy must lose!
Agreed. But assuming what the answers are without any evidence doesn’t lead to the truth.
You're right. It looks like the taser was flung back by the victim just as he was taking off. I don't see him tossing it, but at about the 0:17 mark, I see it scooting along the ground behind the cop, in the direction away from him as he's running.
There is no reason in this case that the officer has to move evidence in a murder case to protect anyone but himself. The officers story was that the perp took the taser away from him and therfore it was a threat to the officer, so in order to protect the officer who could have been shot with his own taser and then disables and had his gun stolen, that the officer had to shoot the perp to keep all the above happening and to protect society from the perp having the officers gun. This was the story before the video was known. If you look you will find all these FACTS and more in the coverage of the crime in many stories that have been written about the case.
I don't need to contact law enforcement to let them know the FACTS that they already know and have charged the guy with murder. The normal method to charge an officer with murder would take many weeks at best and months would not be uncommon but in this case there is enough to make the charge. The officers original story is proven to be a lie by the video. The cops attorney deserted him because of the lying that was obvious after the video came out.
The cop appears to be a murder. We have trials to make sure what we think we see is what happened and to make sure there isn't reasonable doubt before we punish such a heinous crime. This video will likely put him in prison for the rest of his life but that punishment will not be enough in my opinion.
Cops are held or at least should be held to a higher standard than the rest of us. They understand more than the rest of us the consequences of disobeying the law. They aren't allowed to get emotional and mete out justice to perps, that is what we have courts for. In this case the cop was angry and killed.
The cop will likely come up with a more reasonable story to make him look less guilty but it won't work because his original testimony is fair game and he will have to explain it, he will have to explain why he lied. Once you admit lying no one on the jury will believe you again, you will be considered what you are, a bad cop.
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