Posted on 04/09/2015 5:06:24 PM PDT by Marie
This is the best breakdown of the Scott shooting video that I've seen yet and it goes a long way to clear up things that many FReepers are asking about. It does show the 'struggle' and clearly shows Scott being tasered right before being shot. It also shows that the object that the officer dropped near the body was NOT the taser.
For later
he stole a horse.
in the old west....hed have been shot without a warning
Careful, or nickcarraway will demand that you move to Russia.
Since when is it okay to shoot someone in the back?
The guy on the horse tried to comply, he laid face down and put his hands behind his back for cuffing, but they beat him mercilessly, and the other cops would run up, and without even being involved, would want to squeeze in to get in some kicks.
Heads should roll.
Where is the video?
When In Horse Country....dont steal a horse!
Since when did I ever imply that it was? I’m absolutely behind the murder charges for the cop. This man was mowed down and the cop lied his butt off.
BUT it wasn’t the taser that the cop dropped. He dropped something else. Maybe he rethought his cover story. Who knows.
It also seems pretty clear that the ‘struggle’ wasn’t a ‘struggle’ at all. Or that Scott ever touched the taser.
The cop murdered this man and lied his butt off about it.
When I click the link, it takes me right to it. Are you using a phone?
http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/nbcnews-com/a-closer-look-at-the-walter-scott-shooting-424905283706
At no time was this man a threat to this officer. The cop was rightly charged with murder. Sad.
I’m not saying you did. Just observing. I don’t see how the taser makes a difference.
Yup.
It sure seems to me that the dropped object was supposed to be the plant, but the officer thought better of it, picked it up, and then went with the taser story. The taser that Scott never had.
There seems to be a need for basic “what not to do around cops” lessons.
Lesson #1: Don’t try to run away from a cop.
Tragic, yes, but preventable.
The way I'm seeing it, the real scandal here is not that some trigger-happy cop shot a man in cold blood, but rather, the fact that the local police seemed willing to cover it up until the video came to light.
Running from a cop does not justify murder.
Don’t get confused.
Yes, what cop picks something up from a crime scene and then walks over and drops it onto the man that he just killed illegally, and then changes his mind and retrieves the object and puts it back on his belt?
Only when someone has committed or is attempting to commit a violent felony. Other than then, never.
Tragic, yes, but preventable.
The Cop had no reason to shoot that man.
He appeared to be a man who was running for his life.
It’s too bad we’ll never know why he felt so threatened.
But I’m guessing - from the cop’s obvious aggression - there was a reason.
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