Posted on 09/25/2014 10:42:36 AM PDT by redreno
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An unarmed man shot by a South Carolina trooper during a traffic stop repeated one question through his anguished cries as he lay wounded, waiting for an ambulance: "Why did you shoot me?"
Levar Jones' painful groans and then-Trooper Sean Groubert's reply — "Well you dove head first back into your car" — were captured by a dashboard camera in the trooper's car.
Groubert had stopped Jones on a seatbelt violation at a Columbia gas station and fired the shots moments after asking Jones for his license
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Who doesn’t expect drivers to reach back into their cars for ID and paperwork when asked?
Generally that's what you do when you pull into a gas station.
I agree with you.
You’re exaggerating
When a cop asks to see your license you first tell them where it is before getting it out of your pocket.
You never go diving back into your car and jump out with anything in your hand! He was begging to get shot.
It looks to me like the guy was just pulling into the gas station and was getting out of his car when the cop pulled up and asked for his license. The cop was definitely prejudice, I don’t think he would have done that if it was an old white lady but you know that is one of the products of the black holocaust instituted by Democrats. Cops and the public are so use to seeing blacks commit violent crimes that they assume the worst and now of course the race baiters will make matters worse by calling this racism when actually it was an act of prejudice.
Then they're in the wrong profession. Scared, panicky and armed are a bad combination.
So a cop has a right to shoot people just because he fears what they might do? He obviously never saw a gun, because there wasn’t one. No, he doesn’t need to be assaulted before he can defend himself, but he does need to have a reasonable perception of a deadly threat. Cops don’t have carte blanche to shoot someone who is making them nervous.
Based on some of the posts following yours I'd say it does.
He’s been charged, but not with “attempted murder” like he should be.
This isn’t Guadalcanal and we are not an occupied force of hostiles, cops cannot just kill everything that moves in front of them.
A citizen was stopped for a seat belt, and was gunned down while reaching for his license, at least entertain for a second, that perhaps something is wrong with the man who did the shooting.
Say what? I don’t carry my license or any other card “on my person” when I’m driving-like most women, I keep my license in my wallet, and the wallet in my purse on the seat beside me-my insurance card is in the console-all within easy reach.
That idiot cop, and the entity he works for have a lawsuit in their future-and it’s a good thing...
I consider this a bad shooting. It looks like the officer was way out of bounds on this one. He should have been washed out at the police academy.
he saw no gun PERIOD! end of discussion
If the reports are true, this time methinks the policeman should be prosecuted.
Big time.
Is it the duty of government to protect me from myself with these seat-belt laws? I think the cops have more pressing duties than enforcing seat-belt laws.
“Cops don’t have carte blanche to shoot someone who is making them nervous.”
But sadly,that’s what they do, day after day, and they usually get away with it. We need a lot more cameras “monitoring” individual cops as they go about their daily activities. Then maybe they will be forced to act like public servants once again, and if they don’t, they will end up like this guy going to jail for a very long time.
At the very least, he needs to see the weapon first.
Cops don’t get stop someone, then shoot them because they THINK he might have a weapon.
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