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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.
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.
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Watch the video. There’s no visible blood or anything gruesome like that. (I’ve got a weak stomach for such things, myself. I can tolerate this one)
And yes. It shows the cop casually dropping an object near the prone man when the second officer arrives. I thought it was the taser, but the cop tasered Scott right before he shot him. Something fell off his belt and he picked it up, then dropped it near Scott. Shortly after that, he picked it up again and resecured it to his belt. (Incidentally, the ‘struggle’ consisted of the officer grabbing Scott by the wrist and Scott twisting away. That’s when he ran, got tasered, then shot)
Every cop needs to wear a body cam. Period. (The cops I talk to are all for this - as long as they can turn the camera off when they go to the bathroom)
Here’s the best broken down version that I’ve seen yet.
http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/nbcnews-com/a-closer-look-at-the-walter-scott-shooting-424905283706