Until this video surfaced, the police department had been taking the killer at his word and it was going to be routine self defense "feared for my life".
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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That should be a riot, the discovery phase of the trial. The cockroaches are all scurrying all over trying to erase all their criminal records and warrants.
Popcorn time!
The court of public opinion will be relentless in these “victims.”
Wait until the silent witnesses and evidence emerge : all the events that transpired prior to the ectual shooting, but was unrecorded out of deliberate “carelessness.”
I haven’t watched the video since everytime i watch something like that i get really sick. If you have seen it could you clear something up?
Supposedly after the man was shot, the video proportedly shows the cop trying to plant the taser on the dead man, is this true?
Because if it is, I don’t care if the cop was 1000% justified in shotting the guy, the act of “Planting Evidence” is far worse than shooting the guy as it shows complete and total corruption.
But I haven’t seen the video yet.
I watched the video. While we don’t see what happened before or after (and nothing is reported as relevant), it did seem entirely complete and un-cut.
“Shooting a fleeing crook in the back isn’t good.”
Could you please cite the crime that Mr. Scott was convicted of sometime between the moment he ran and the moment he was shot?
Otherwise, he was not a crook.
That wasn’t immediately obvious from the video, but word is he did claim to find it there. Planting evidence and false testimony about unverifiable evidence are largely indistinguishable at this point, both warranting severe consequence. It IS obvious that something, quite possibly the Tazer, was dropped just before the guy turned and ran (and it’s a very straightforward turn-and-run, nothing odd or threatening about it).
THIS is the case the Ferguson protesters wanted the Brown shooting to be. If they applied the same outrage (short of opportunistic looting & “snitches get stitches” BS) to this as they did to that, I’d be supportive.
I’d be going after the same jerk wads the family is going after first. The creeps that did the shooting.
I guess not everyone has the laser focus on more money that drives you.
Until this video surfaced, the police department had been taking the killer at his word and it was going to be routine self defense "feared for my life".
The only sane rationalization I can envision at the moment: the two WERE struggling hand-to-hand, and Scott DID seem to remove something (a Tazer, a dangerous thing for an opponent to take under such circumstances), putting the cop in the awkward position of using lethal force lest non-lethal be leveraged into lethal ... as the cop transitioned to preparing to use lethal force, Scott dropped the Tazer and fled, and the cop didn’t transition out of the lethal-force mindset in time to avoid shooting. Understandable, though completely unacceptable and worthy of severe consequences.
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I said nothing about the shooting, but merely pointed out his apparent social value.
Do we have a corresponding picture of him picking it up? we did see it drop just before Scott ran.
Scott doesn’t appear to have ever had the taser.
Sometimes one should overlook the exact wording and take the intended point.
In this case, Scott did nothing warranting lethal force while he was fleeing, and the cop had no reason to believe Scott was a clear & present danger to the community should he escape.
The tax payers?
Governments have a bad track record for paying out suits.
They were struggling at contact range, and something Tazer-ish dropped just before he ran. We’re not sure he had it, and not sure he didn’t. Regardless, it’s pretty clear he didn’t have it when fleeing and was not otherwise an imminent threat to anyone.
“A person does not fluctuate between crook and non-crook, between crimes. Was Jeffrey Dahmer not a criminal when he was between meals? Was John Dillinger not a criminal when he was brushing his teeth?”
In this country, we have a legal system and a person only be determined to be guilty of a crime after he is given Due Process.
And from what I saw, the cop doing the shooting did not provide Mr. Scott with Due Process.
I think he’s referring to the deceased’s 10 prior arrests (reported) and outstanding warrant (although not sure what for).
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