Officer charged with murder after shooting man in back:

CNN.com ^ | 4/8 | Holly Yan and Dana Ford

[momtothree]

“... 8 shots does not mean he was full of 8 bullets”.

He died on the scene. I don’t understand your issue if he was hit once or eight times.. the man died.

[Timber Rattler]

Perhaps, but that doesn’t explain him dropping the same object next to the body, and then picking it up, making sure that the other cop sees it.

[Timber Rattler]

Good shoot!

Are you crazy? He shot the guy eight times in the back 25 feet away? You're OK with that kind of law enforcement?

[LivingNet]

Serious Question: Are there times when it is legal, for a law enforcement officer, to shoot an unarmed person in the back?

Recently watched Fargo (I know just a movie) but the scene where he is feeding the guy into the wood chipper. He sees the cop (Marge) and starts running across the ice away from her. She shoots him in the back.

Are there any known situations where it is legal for a LEO to do this?

[DoodleDawg]

Maybe he had some other equipment he dropped and had to pick up.

And then drop next to the body of the man he shot? What might that have been if not something to incriminate the victim?

[servantboy777]

>>pick up his taser and then plants it next to the guy<<

Wow, I didn’t notice that. I’ll have to watch again.

[deport]

A couple of other threads with lots of comments if anyone
is interested in reading them.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3276754/posts
Police: Officer facing murder charge following shooting of suspect

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3276821/posts
North Charleston officer faces murder charge after video shows
him shooting man in back

[Dr. Ursus]

Broken taillight and a family court warrant and you end up dead!

[livius]

No, he wouldn’t have. A taser on or near somebody who was shot at a distance, with all of the several entry wounds in the back, does not constitute justifiable cause, and the cop would not have gotten away with it.

Leaving that aside, I just hope that the rabble rousers don’t arrive. North Charleston (where I have family) is a very mixed area, with some high crime, mostly black locations, some white working class areas, some military off-base residential areas, and even a couple of higher end subdivisions.

Fortunately, I think that this was so blatant that nobody is going to be able to make hay on it. Even the police chief started crying when announcing it.

[don-o]

Good riddance.

Seriously? You're good with a cop shooting a fleeing suspect multiple times in the back? Really?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Good riddance to the cop.

[don-o]

That’s better tan your first two word comment w/o context.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I was responding to Tangleledupinblue’s comment, “He could fry in SC.”

Suggest you read more carefully.

[dinodino]

Answers:

One: Yes, but too bad.

Two: No.

Three: No.

[HotHunt]

Well, he shot the guy in his BACK. That'd be kinda' hard to explain any way you put it.

This was an outright murder, based on the video clip.

[Georgia Girl 2]

No I think Tim Scott like most of us know murder when we see it on a video.

[null and void]

One: If this is true, then we have an exploitable incident (by Leftists standards) for both black rage AND anti-cop sentiment, which could cause further unrest in either direction;

If it's shown on the 6 o'clock news, it's as true as it needs to be.

Actual ground truth -facts, if you will- will not stop The Agenda.

[Reeses]

If there was no video, he would have gotten away with it

It's obvious by now that thousands of government jackboots have already gotten away with it. Cops hate these newfangled pocket video recorders.

[don-o]

I can accept that. Sorry I took it wrong.

[null and void]

As for making hay over “8 shots”, it seems he only hit with 1. I can’t believe Scott kept jogging the way he did with multiple shots in him. We’ll see, but “8 shots” does not mean he was full of 8 bullets.