[funfan]

If it was a routine stop why was the man running away?

[Pearls Before Swine]

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.

[lee martell]

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.

[Tired of Taxes]

I haven’t been following this story. But here’s the raw video on youtube:

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

[ansel12]

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.

[Repeal The 17th]

In just a quick moment, the cop became jury, judge, and executioner.

[equaviator]

It’s a damned shame that some cops, although they make it through the training, turn out to be just trigger-happy.

[x]

Robert Burns died a few days ago.

Now it's Walter Scott.

Dark days for Scotland.

[dfwgator]

This Cop is Al Sharpton’s dream come true.

[Captainpaintball]

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...

[aimhigh]

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.

[IChing]

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.

[Rebelbase]

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?

[Teacher317]

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.

[dead]

Murdered by the state - it could happen to any of us.

[wardaddy]

Anyone on this forum who thinks that was a justified kill needs to find another place to post their bullshit

[Tired of Taxes]

Dashcam video now available at this thread here:

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