Dashboard video shows shooting of unarmed driver

http://news.yahoo.com ^ | 09/25/2014 | By JEFFREY COLLINS

[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

[arthurus]

No. Cops aren’t mind readers. Thus when a cop sees a traffic infraction and pulls a car, he should just shoot whoever is in the car immediately because he can’t divine what the people in the car might do.

[Safetgiver]

I’m just courious..Be serious.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Groubert is white and Jones is black, but neither state police nor the FBI keep detailed statistics on the races of people in officer-involved shootings.

The FBI figures below include the majority of all police departments. The point of this reply is to point out that whites are the most likely to die while being arrested. The Obama-Holder U.S. Dept. Just Us and the race-grievance industry will of course exploit this shooting to the max vis-a-vis race more than any concern for the poor victim.

The FBI stats show that whites are more likely to die while being arrested and IMO there is no doubt that some of those deaths were the intention of the police.

What about the larger number of whites and Arrest-Related Deaths (ARD)? Why is that okay with Obama, the race-grievance industry, and the media? We never see coverage of questionable ARDs involving whites that's anything close to Ferguson.

Arrest-Related Deaths, 2003-2009 - Statistical Tables

"From 2003 through 2009, a total of 4,813 deaths were reported to the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ (BJS) Arrest-Related Deaths (ARD) program."

Of these, about 6 in 10 deaths (2,931) were classified as homicide by law enforcement personnel, and 4 in 10 (1,882) were attributed to other manners of death.

Table 1 Number of reported arrest-related deaths, by manner of death, 2003-2009

Manner of death	2003-2009	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
All manners	4,813	627	673	689	721	745	629	729
Homicide —by law enforcement	2,931	376	375	377	447	455	404	497
by other persons	27	3	4	4	2	7	3	4
Suicide	541	60	84	82	67	78	76	94
Intoxication	525	83	83	90	76	89	54	50
Accidental injury	272	53	41	47	39	35	28	29
Natural causes	244	26	46	32	34	42	33	31
Unknown	273	26	40	57	56	39	31	24

Note: Due to variation in reporting, caution should be used in comparing counts from year to year. See Methodology for information on missing data by state for each year. Counts may differ from previous publication due to additional information.

Table 5 Number of reported arrest-related deaths, by manner of death and demographic characteristics, 2003-2009

Demographic characteristics	All manners	Homicide	Suicide	Intoxication	Accident	Natural causes	Unknown
Total	4,813	2,958	541	525	272	244	273
Sex
Male	4,594	2,851	517	490	259	218	259
Female	218	107	24	35	13	26	13
Unknown	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Race/Hispanic origin
White, non-Hispanic	2,026	1,233	327	178	95	110	83
Black, non-Hispanic	1,529	937	80	217	111	85	99
Hispanic	949	599	110	109	55	29	47
Other*	150	107	12	17	4	4	6
Unknown	159	82	12	4	7	16	38
Age
17 or younger	127	99	6	5	13	0	4
18-24	909	685	80	53	54	10	27
25-34	1,391	893	140	177	65	41	75
35-44	1,238	658	159	190	78	66	87
45-54	752	390	105	84	45	75	53
55 or older	317	188	44	11	12	52	10
Unknown	79	45	7	5	5	0	17

*Includes American Indians, Alaska Natives, Asians, Native Hawaiians, other Pacific Islanders, and persons of two or more races.

To me this shows that it is not a racial thing. It happens to all races. These figures however do not show those thought "murdered" by police. I have not yet located data for recent years. Why can't I find data for recent years? I do not know.. maybe the Dept of Just Us and Race-Grievance Industry don't want it known that whites are the most likely to die being arrested.

[jespasinthru]

Check out the photo of that cop. Look at those cold, soulless eyes. Obviously the type who joined the police force for the sake of Authority, so that he could boss people around and legally hurt and/or kill them. He just happens to be the one who didn’t get away with it.

[AAABEST]

I see you're applying for the "Thread Imbecile" position.

I think you got this one in the bag. Keep up the good work.

[dware]

Trying this again...

South Carolina trooper charged in shooting of unarmed man

[Dutchboy88]

Oh no...let’s just shoot him and send his corpse to his wife. Then let’s pay the victim $ 100000000 because his reaching into the car would not have endangered the officer until the shotgun actually was discharged into the cop’s chest. We need a rule that says, “Until the gun actually kills you, you must not, cannot return fire.” There we go, boys.

[mythenjoseph]

Is it safe to discharge firearms at gas pumps?...hmmm Cop screwed up BIGTIME.

[henkster]

See? If you don’t wear your seat belt you can get killed.

[Safetgiver]

but why do some drivers NOT keep their license ON THEIR PERSON?....Sitting on your wallet can can give you a back ache, pain in your hips and cause you to walk like a cripple if you go any further than 10 miles. Ask any chiropractor, physical therapist or doctor. I put mine in/on the console.

[Beagle8U]

I’d be willing to bet that the dash cam was on long before that little clip shown. But that little segment shows all the media wants people to see, bad cop.

Did the cop run the license plate before the stop and it came back as a repeat felon, gang member, with a violent record as long as your arm? Cops run a plate before they stop anyone.

Little details like that don’t help the story the media wants to portray though, bad cop.

The cop likely did shoot to fast, but we don’t know the details of why he might have been on edge about the guy.

[Texan5]

Law enforcement has always attracted the type of person who wants to wear a phallus/gun on their hip as proof of the masculinity they are unsure of-but the psychological screening used in the past weeded most of that type out before they ever started training, and kept those who were more motivated to assist others and prevent real crime.

I don’t know how the hiring process has changed in the last 15 or so years, but whatever it is letting in every loose cannon and giving them a gun-and making the rest of us fear being assaulted or shot for a minor traffic violation...

[arthurus]

The cop has been fired and arrested for felony aggravated assault.

That is near to being something new under the sun.

[stevie_d_64]

Well...Think about it...Why would this be news, unless the purpose was to incite further tension???

This has to be happening a LOT more than makes the news outside the immediate area...

The insane solution that you might not be surprised about is that some would champion Black cops for black civilian areas, and White cops, for white civilian areas...

Absolutely NO interracial contact to be made till an officer of the “right” color responds to the scene...

It would only make sense to the Jesse Jackson’s and Al Sharpton’s of the world...

Nevermind the “real” effectiveness of such an asinine solution, but that would be secondary to the overall problem fomented by the race pimps in the black community...

Yeah, I already know, I’ve been called a racist well before such incidents occur...

Yawn...

BTW, the cop DID act a little bit too quick on the application of deadly force in this situation...And now he is not the only one paying for it...

[MrEdd]

If I buy something at a drive through window (or use an ATM) I don’t put my wallet back in my front pocket until I am getting out of the car.

Such a case would explain the guy not wearing his seatbelt - he normally puts it on as part of getting into the car and this time he later took it off to raise up and get his wallet out.

The conservative position (for all of you nanny state liberals on this thread) is that seatbelt laws are an unconcionable intrusion into the lives of the citizenry. On the other hand, insurance policies that are void if the customer isn’t wearing a seatbelt is legitimate.

[MrEdd]

If I buy something at a drive through window (or use an ATM) I don’t put my wallet back in my front pocket until I am getting out of the car.

Such a case would explain the guy not wearing his seatbelt - he normally puts it on as part of getting into the car and this time he later took it off to raise up and get his wallet out.

The conservative position (for all of you nanny state liberals on this thread) is that seatbelt laws are an unconcionable intrusion into the lives of the citizenry. On the other hand, insurance policies that are void if the customer isn’t wearing a seatbelt is legitimate.

[relictele]

...and get this stupid, invasive law off the books. Another SAAAAAFETY Trojan Horse, it’s nothing more than a snooper’s charter for cops.

[Cold Heart]

If you are keeping your wallet in your back pocket while driving you are looking for back & hip problems.

[MNDude]

Oddly enough, they seem to come to the defense of the side of the black person when it’s obvious the black person was in the wrong.
A case like this where the white cop was clearly in the wrong will be ignored.
I don’t know why.

[old gringo]

no,he just needs to shoot everybody he stops for his own saftey.a sceared man with a gun will kill you.i had rather be up aganist the bravest man in the world.and most cops are afraid of their own shadow.