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1 posted on 04/08/2015 4:02:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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If it was a routine stop why was the man running away?


2 posted on 04/08/2015 4:05:13 PM PDT by funfan
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The man who filmed the video has not yet been named.

He may not wish to be named. He would be a marked man at traffic stops.

3 posted on 04/08/2015 4:05:51 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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The man who filmed it did the right thing. I hope he remains nameless and does not try to parlay this into his 15 minutes of fame, appearing on MSNBC telling the story over and over,thus stirring the pot to a another hot boil. We don’t need another Ferguson, and should not experience that this time because the police moved expeditiously to do the right things. The policeman has been fired, is locked up is charged with murder, although that will likely be changed to manslaughter or something other than murder.


4 posted on 04/08/2015 4:08:57 PM PDT by lee martell (The sa)
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I haven’t been following this story. But here’s the raw video on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpt7sEt3k4Y


7 posted on 04/08/2015 4:13:52 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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It was all routine and a normal police shooting, for the first couple of days, and then the video came in.

On watching the video, the police charged the cop with murder.

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10 posted on 04/08/2015 4:17:24 PM PDT by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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In just a quick moment, the cop became jury, judge, and executioner.


22 posted on 04/08/2015 4:26:53 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th ("We The People" have met the enemy; and he is "We The People".)
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It’s a damned shame that some cops, although they make it through the training, turn out to be just trigger-happy.


25 posted on 04/08/2015 4:29:31 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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Robert Burns died a few days ago.

Now it's Walter Scott.

Dark days for Scotland.

27 posted on 04/08/2015 4:31:17 PM PDT by x
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This Cop is Al Sharpton’s dream come true.


29 posted on 04/08/2015 4:33:40 PM PDT by dfwgator
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I am coordinated enough to both film AND yell at the officer to tell him that someone (me) is watching him, and he better not fire his weapon, lest it go viral, and his life become ruined...


43 posted on 04/08/2015 4:49:07 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (Immigration without assimilation is the death of a nation -- FUJB!!!)
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I’m in awe of the guy who took the video. It took courage to keep filming while that was happening. And it took courage to keep staying visible when you think about how the cop could have turned on the video taker to take the camera.


49 posted on 04/08/2015 5:01:11 PM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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Slager’s biggest problem MAY turn out to be his statements after the fact. If he’s found to have deliberately lied afterward by saying that Scott actually had the taser (not merely that he thought he had it), not realizing that the video was forthcoming, the jury will be that much more inclined to ignore the mitigating factors. It’s going to be interesting.


68 posted on 04/08/2015 5:22:51 PM PDT by IChing
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I don’t get the cops strategy of moving the taser closer to the victim’s body while leaving 6 or 8 rounds of brass on the ground from where he shot?


78 posted on 04/08/2015 5:36:41 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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The ONLY possible justification for this shooting is the Fleeing Felon Rule. The police have not yet shown that Mr Scott was recently in the commission of a violent felony (murder, rape, etc), nor that the murdererrrrr, I mean policeman, had any reason to believe that he was. Until they do, nothing can change the fact that this was an unjustified killing.


90 posted on 04/08/2015 5:55:00 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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Murdered by the state - it could happen to any of us.


178 posted on 04/08/2015 9:54:56 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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Anyone on this forum who thinks that was a justified kill needs to find another place to post their bullshit


212 posted on 04/09/2015 10:19:48 AM PDT by wardaddy (Dems hate western civilization and GOP are cowards...We are headed to a dark place)
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Dashcam video now available at this thread here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3277613/posts


227 posted on 04/09/2015 4:31:45 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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