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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Perhaps... However, five shots to the back without any powder burns surely would have been found in the autopsy and would have been cause for an investigation. What bothers me is that the person who took the video apparently did not report him/herself as an eye witness before producing the video. I understand some reluctance, out of fear (he/she had just witnessed what appears to have been a police murder), to come forward immediately but surely he/she would have done so at some point. It took brave eyewitnesses to come forward and clear Darren Wilson... surely he/she would have come forward to help indite this injustice.
More like North Charleston's insurance company.
At the start of each shift every cop in America should remind themselves that they are probably being being video recorded.
At the start of each shift every cop in America should remind themselves that they are probably being being video recorded.
The witness says that he considered erasing the video and leaving town, because he thought the cop had seen him.
Actually, putting the cop on trial and putting him in jail if convicted is the punishment. They are trying to get rich off their sons death.
What does appear pretty clear, is that he was not shot for having a taser and being a threat,.
The taser was retrieved by the shooter as he removed it from one part of the crime scene, walked over to the body and tossed it right smack dab into the heart of the most important part of the crime scene, the body of the man that he had just shot.
This sure doesn’t fit what most of us think of as the sanctity of the crime scent and the principle elements and objects of focus of it.
“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 time cops seem to have any fear is when they’re shooting at you.
What’s interesting is the “Everyone is a criminal with something to hide except for cops, and cops never lie” mindset that many, many cops and their family and close friends seem to have.
Saw a case with national attention where the cop failed to follow police protocol and procedures and caused the death of a citizen, yet he and his friends and family claimed for years that the victim had failed to follow instructions, which still gets repeated all the time, despite millions having been paid to the family of the victim.
“Actually, putting the cop on trial and putting him in jail if convicted is the punishment. They are trying to get rich off their sons death.”
Just some more crooks trying to bilk the system, eh?
And when they get their millions, they’re supposed to donate it to some charitable organization that assists fallen officers, or performs criminal rehabilitation, right, otherwise they’re just greedy opportunists?
Well, you see...
The guy that made.the video wasn’t stupid.
This creep just shot a fleeing, unarmed, middle aged, fat man dead.
He got the video where everyone could see it.
Now officer weapon planter gains nothing if the camera man “dissappears.”
Not everyone is a contender for a Darwin award and camera guy put forth the effort to not get nominated.
And at the start of every shift the law abiding citizenry needs to make it so.
There, fixed.
Actually he ran back to pick it up then droped it by the body. Guess he knew had to hurry up before more investigators arrived.
Several people in several parts of the country have been arrested by the Police for recording them on a cell-phone camera. Would you really want to identify yourself to a Policeman who just got done shooting someone 8 times in the back and planting “evidence” on the corpse?
Something that people have not gotten into yet, is that all 7 of the officers who showed up immediately after, are being looked into, to see to what level, if at all, that they may have played along with a cover up.
I’m sure that most of us have wondered what role the second cop plays in this.
Even if the events unfolded just as you described, and you have ZERO evidence to support it, it’s still murder.
You do know that, I take it.
The Taser lands about 4-5 feet behind Slager. It’s clearly visible.
Taser wires are coming from behind Slager where the taser has fallen, going over his arm, and down to Scott, still attached to Scott. Slager has his pistol in his hands.
Slager returns to Taser and picks it up. Same spot as in the first pic.
http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/ht_walter_scott_shooting_video_new_02_jc_150409_4x3_992.jpg
Slager drops Taser near Scott, with other officer right there witnessing the drop.
http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/ht_walter_scott_shooting_video_new_01_jc_150409_4x3_992.jpg
” He had at least some justification for what he did”
Nonewhatsoever. There’s no justification for shooting an unarmed man in the back 5 times at 50 feet while the man is fleeing a traffic stop for a broken tail light. If that’s justified, then you’ve just handed every cop in the nation a license to murder pretty much whomever they want, whenever they want, and for whatever reason they want.
“At the start of each shift every cop in America should remind themselves that they are probably being being video recorded.”
Even better, ever cop in America should wear a bodycam that’s turned on by the shift supervisor when the cop leaves for duty, and can’t be turned off until the end of the shift by the cop’s supervisor. This protects good cops like Darren Wilson and gets rid of bad cops like Michael Slager. In both cases, bodycams should provide bulletproof evidence in the courtroom. Vidcams in interrogation rooms have revolutionized the value of such interrogatory evidence, and bodycams would do the same in the field.
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