Posted on 04/09/2015 10:55:22 AM PDT by Oliviaforever
The family of South Carolina police shooting victim Walter Scott is preparing to fire back at the killer cop with a civil suit.
“We will seek every penny of compensation that the family deserves,” state Rep. Justin Bamberg, who is representing the Scott family as a lawyer, told the Daily News on Thursday. “People in society are fed up with people getting away with things like this, fed up with law enforcement abusing the power that they have.”
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I’d be going after the city first. They have deeper pockets.
North Charleston is going to need an extra-long check for all the zeros in that settlement. And they should.
I think that the city carries his liability, but IANAL.
That did not take long.
Now watch all of the arrows I get SHOT @ ME for saying that!!!!!
When you have a great case, you run to the courthouse.
They should split the money with the guy that shot the video.
Everything was routine for days, it was all just another cop shooting being wrapped up and put away..........and then someone came forward with the video of what really happened, after reading what was being reported by the police.
It all starts with cops sitting at the bottom of hills trying to collar Joe worker cause they’re to lazy to look for the meth lab down the block.
The only value the poor soul ever had to society; i.e. a pay off to the parents. (It has been reported that he had 10 prior arrests and had a warrant out on him at the time of the shooting.)
Who is getting away with anything? Last I heard the guy was fired and charged with murder.
I hope this incident serves as a productive learning experience for police nationwide. I also commend the police chief and mayor for charging the cop.
They'll have people coming out of the woodwork claiming past abuse and hoping to sue. Hopefully after the Scott's family sues there won't leave much for the vultures.
I’d be curious to know who provided the video, and what may have been cut out of it.
If what I have read is reasonably accurate, then it looks like this guy got out of his car, started a fight with the officer, grabbed his taser, dropped it in a further struggle, and then ran.
Then the officer shot him in the back.
Did the video include any of the earlier part of this, maybe cut by the provider?
Shooting a fleeing crook in the back isn’t good. But I don’t see this as deliberate murder. He had at least some justification for what he did. More like manslaughter, at worst.
They want to punish the people responsible for killing their son. I don't blame them.
does it warrant a mag full of lead to the back? really?
no, I hope this guy is broke and jailed in gen pop for a long time....and let every other ape with a badge think about the same if they ever get the notion....
This family so far seems reasonably full of grace....I'm not so sure anyone elses response would be as measured if it were our kin....that said, they should go after every single entity involved
I DO feel bad for the perps wife - she asked for none of this...and kudos to the dept for honoring that obligation
What excuse does an armed, trained, experienced police officer have to shoot an unarmed man, posing no threat to the officer or anyone else, 5 times in the back?
“If what I have read is reasonably accurate, then it looks like this guy got out of his car, started a fight with the officer, grabbed his taser, dropped it in a further struggle, and then ran.”
The problem would be is that you are taking the word of the cop who has already been proven to be telling lies.
This would be the same cop who we know picked up his TAZER and dropped it next to the dead man’s body.
Justification? what justification? what lethal risk did the guy pose to anyone at that point?
Whether he still had the Tazer may have been in doubt (cop may not have seen him drop it), but mere possession of a specifically non-lethal device (short of specific possibly lethal circumstances, which this obviously wasn’t) does not warrant lethal force when they guy is fleeing.
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