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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Eric Holder has lost his job.
He resigned when the scandal heat got too hot in the kitchen.
I guess he created too much workplace violence in Fergusson.
You keep telling yourself that. As time has gone by, you’ve become more and more of a minority on this site. Several reflexive bootlickers have already left because we weren’t willing to just accept their worship of the police state in silence. People are waking up and opening their eyes to the fact that police aren’t like Andy Griffith these days, and that they’ve been trained to look at us average, everyday citizens as the enemy.
Are you serious?
Do you see the only options as being to open fire on an unarmed motorist, or be shot?
Does an unarmed motorist pulled over for...of all things...a seatbelt violation have the right to go home to his family alive at the end of the day?
I'd like to have an answer.
Before you get on your soapbox, why don't you RTFA?
Seriously?
That was a totally predictable response.
You should seek help.
That would be the imaginary shotgun?
You are absolutely correct on all of the points you make. Some here on FR are nothing more than cop haters.
Well, I don't agree, but that's irrelevant.
When the cop asked for ID...reaching back into the vehicle was totally predictable.
. So...if you mean that the cop wanted a pretext to shoot the guy, and this provided it, then I can't argue with that, either...is that what you meant?
The cop was in charge of the situation...he initiated it, he had all the badge, all the power, all the control, all the gun. HE'S responsible for what happens..and in case you missed it, he's the only guy there with any training on how to deal with this situation.
Motorists don't, AND THEY AREN'T REQUIRED TO.
I believe you are correct. I also suspect that's not quite how Joe Q Public sees it...they see cops treating everyone as criminals.
That's why so many who in the past reflexively gave the benefit of the doubt to LEOs no longer do...in fact, the opposite.
Try saying, "Goooooos frabah". Over and over. It will relax that death grip you have on the electric chair switch.
You are certainly the majority at DailyKos and DU. But, here, my FRiend, there are plenty of law-abiding conservatives who don’t buy your anarchical bull pucky.
No. The one that you would like to have pointed at your chest before you take that weapon out of the holster. We shake our heads at your willingness to die in the line of stupidity.
There's no shotgun in this case.
The cop has all the power, all the control, all the badge, and all the gun. He initiated contact. He also has all the training for dealing with situations such as this. Motorists have none.
In phrasing his question as he did, the cop precipitated a dangerous situation. He then chose to exhibit poor judgment in dealing with that unfortunate situation.
It's not cop hating to say the shooting constitutes a criminal act. A jury will decide.
That's a court of criminal law. We plebes also have a thing called a court of public opinion not bound by legal mumbo-jumbo. Argue against video if you must, but you have a tall mountain to climb.
Then we will be happy to watch you put on a badge, leave your weapon in the car (because obviously you find no need for this since you don’t see any weapon brandished) and you can just trot up to the cars, whistling and smiling. We’ll send flowers.
Amazing thought. Suppose we applied it in other areas of life?
Besides, I didn't say or suggest the cop should have left his gun in the car. I said in this case he exhibited poor judgment from start to finish, an unarmed man got shot and a cop is fired and criminally charged.
Can you honestly engage on the issue without employing straw men?
You certainly have no right to ask of another man what you would not do yourself. So, get out there with your own stupid rules or...
So it seems.
Don’t worry! He will probably get some sinecure position in the upper echelons of
government where he can put the blame on someone else when he goofs up again.
I’ll answer with the same bonehead question you asked me....
Are you serious?
Does a cop, doing his job, have a right to go home to his/her family alive at the end of the day?
I’d like to have an answer......
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