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Dash cam video shows officer pursuing man [Walter Scott] before shooting
Associated Press via AOL ^ | 4-9-15 | JEFFREY S. COLLINS and MICHAEL BIESECKER

Posted on 04/09/2015 4:26:02 PM PDT by smokingfrog

Dash cam video of a traffic stop provided the world with another piece of evidence Thursday in a fatal police shooting. It showed no indication of any physical or verbal threats before the driver bolts and the officer chases after him.

The video, released Thursday by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, shows what begins as a seemingly routine stop for a broken tail light. The officer, Michael Slager, approaches the used Mercedes-Benz driven by Walter Lamer Scott, and asks for license and registration. There's a brief exchange, and the officer returns to his cruiser.

Scott then takes off running.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: banglist; dashcam; netherlands; policeshooting; southcarolina; walterscott
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To: A CA Guy
We don’t shoot them for fun.

We do turn them into cult heroes.

21 posted on 04/09/2015 4:46:44 PM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: cripplecreek

You’re not thinking clearly. Perhaps you should lay off the cop gargle.


22 posted on 04/09/2015 4:47:15 PM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (PS I live north of San Diego. Come & get me.)
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To: cripplecreek

“The guy who took the cell phone video said they were rolling around on the ground when he first spotted them.”

I missed that fact.

Do you have a link to any article that quotes Mr. Santana stating that the cop and guy who ended up dead were rolling on the ground?


23 posted on 04/09/2015 4:47:27 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: smokingfrog
It looks like there was a passenger in the car. I did not see it mentioned anywhere.

24 posted on 04/09/2015 4:47:55 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: 9thLife
Police aren't allowed to be judge, jury and executioner... that's against the law. The cop was wrong... and yeah it matters.
25 posted on 04/09/2015 4:48:13 PM PDT by GOPJ (Climatology is a science?? Kinda like Lesbian Dance Theory is a sport... freeper eyeamok)
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To: 9thLife

No, the country does not.


26 posted on 04/09/2015 4:48:21 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: smokingfrog
Why does one run from a stop for a broken tail light? Warrants? Drugs?
27 posted on 04/09/2015 4:48:44 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obama;A Low Grade Intellect With Even Lower Morals)
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To: GOPJ

that really does’t answer the question, though.


28 posted on 04/09/2015 4:48:45 PM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: A CA Guy

We must be in alternative universes, FRiend.


29 posted on 04/09/2015 4:49:32 PM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: smokingfrog

The dash cam video shows a passenger seated in the Mercedes who never moved. Anyone hear what happened to that individual?


30 posted on 04/09/2015 4:50:55 PM PDT by Brandonmark (There is still hope for our country! 11.04.2014 - DAY OF RENEWAL)
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To: Michael.SF.
So you feel it is a common occurrence for a man, pulled over for a routine traffic violation, to jump out of the car and run for no apparent reason?

From my vast experience...watching ...yes.

31 posted on 04/09/2015 4:51:11 PM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (PS I live north of San Diego. Come & get me.)
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To: cripplecreek

“I’m stating a fact and I don’t give a flying flip whether you’re ashamed of that or not.”

I wasn’t questioning what you were stating, I have questions about what you were suggesting. What the dead guy did or did not do prior to running away and the cop pulling the trigger is completely irrelevant.

Let’s assume (just for grins) that the cop recolonized him as the dude who raped his daughter the night before. IT WOULDN’T MATTER OR CHANE ANYTHING, It’s still murder...


32 posted on 04/09/2015 4:51:40 PM PDT by babygene
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To: Gay State Conservative
Why does one run from a stop for a broken tail light? Warrants? Drugs?

I believe I heard, probably on a talk show somewhere, that Scott had warrants of some kind for unpaid child support.
33 posted on 04/09/2015 4:51:57 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: A CA Guy
Dropping the taser is the key to the degree of the charge against him: he tried to cover up his actions therefore he is guilty.

And I would agree that murder is the charge warranted for his actions.

34 posted on 04/09/2015 4:52:01 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (It takes a gun to feed a village (and an AK 47 to defend it).)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Just today in San Marcos TX a trooper pulled a truck over, then it tried to speed away he shot the tire out, they -two Hispanic men- fled on foot. (How they got away on foot, I dunno, its pretty rural and wide open there)


35 posted on 04/09/2015 4:52:03 PM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: 9thLife
Is there another country anywhere that is more obsessed with the way it treats career criminals?

Have we established that he was,in fact,a "career criminal"?

36 posted on 04/09/2015 4:52:16 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obama;A Low Grade Intellect With Even Lower Morals)
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To: cripplecreek
There are still a couple minutes with no video. The guy who took the cell phone video said they were rolling around on the ground when he first spotted them.

So? He was still running away. He was not a threat to the officer. Life surely has to be of more importance than being disrespected.

37 posted on 04/09/2015 4:52:29 PM PDT by Starstruck
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To: Michael.SF.
The cop was being very polite and professional in what is seen on this video.

The only time he raised his voice was the first time Scott opened the door and stood up.

As far as planting evidence is concerned, I've seen video of Slager dropping the taser on the ground but he later picks it up and puts it on his belt. I don't know if that was planting evidence or just dropping it on the ground and picking it back up due to adrenaline. That will all be in the report he filed and what the second officer filed when he showed up.
38 posted on 04/09/2015 4:52:30 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: 9thLife

Scott wasn’t a “career criminal”. He had been arrested multiple times for failure to pay child support. Hardly the charges of a dangerous man.


39 posted on 04/09/2015 4:53:00 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
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To: BitWielder1

According to reports, yes, there was a passenger.

I didn’t know that, either, until I saw this video.


40 posted on 04/09/2015 4:53:07 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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