The ones that stand still are well-disciplined, deadly threats.
Posted on 04/10/2015 12:46:41 AM PDT by rickyrikardo
Authorities in South Carolina have released dash cam video in connection with the fatal shooting of Walter Scott, but the footage does not show the actual shooting.
Video from the patrol car of North Charleston's Michael Slager shows an initial traffic stop and early interactions between the officer and Scott.
Slager approaches Scott's vehicle. The two men speak. Scott tells the officer he does not have insurance and is in the process of purchasing the vehicle. Slager then returns to his patrol car.
Scott exits his vehicle, briefly, and Slager tells him to stay in the car. Scott then gets out of the car, again, and runs away, out of the range of the dash cam.
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Note the fanny pack and hat he’s wearing that isn’t seen at the end. It wouldn’t surprise me if one of those is what’s on the ground in front of Slager later.
The family says he’d bought it, so it could just be tragic coincidence that he just happened to give the kind of responses thieves give when nabbed. It’s always “my friend’s car”, or my (choose relative)’s car”, or “I just bought it, but we haven’t done the paperwork yet”. That would have made Slager suspicious, and the guy running off is just the kind of thing that would have convinced him he was chasing a fleeing felon.
He ran for a reason, figure that out and the whole story may change.
That’s the first thing I think when pulled over for a broken taillight. Run like hell.
He had a bench warrant for failure to pay child support ($18,000, which is a fair chunk of change). I don’t know why he thought he could get away by running, but people do stupid things.
But RUNNING AWAY does not justify shooting him. They knew who he was and could pick him up later easily enough, and he was not wanted for a major violent felony in the first place.
Here’s the thing...if there’s a warrant for a guy...then you get up two cops and you serve warrants. If you don’t have enough cops...then you deputize some folks and they serve warrants. It’s stupid that you let a warrant sit there and a guy knows it exists....and he goes for weeks or months pretending that he’ll just sneak around the episode.
There’s no issue about the cop over-reacting, but all of this for a stupid potential warrant for lack-of-payment?
Two years ago, I recall some story out of Texas about some town and the number of outstanding warrants....they had like a thousand such warrants just sitting there and weren’t accomplishing anything with the current strategy.
Don’t worry, there will be FReepers coming on this thread to justify shooting a man in the back by a cop.
The cop screwed up. The warrant was for bad child support, not murder. So the guy ran, big deal. they can always catch him another day. They had his car. It wasn’t worth shooting and killing the guy.
A fifty year old is not going to run for long.
He was running in the direction that the backup officer came from.
Unnecessary shooting.
The cop is done and the town will not be satiated easily.
Sounds like they’re already here.
Not this one.
I watched the video. I saw a murderer fire his weapon from a range stance EIGHT times. I do not recall seeing the victim doing anything other than running.
Exactly how does a traffic stop for a tail light turn into a use-of-force situation where it goes down like that, and then the LEO picks up the taser from where he shot and carries it over to throw down by the victim? This was murder and it really doesn’t matter what this guy did. The stop doesn’t justify what the LEO did.
I think the lesson here is not to run away from the cops
They just might shoot you in the back
If this ass clown turned out to be a mass murderer instead of a regular gibsmedat lowlife, the cop would be a hero..
I beg to differ, I think the lesson here is that when there’s no threat to the LEO, the LEO doesn’t shoot first (eight shots in the back??) and ask questions later about who it was they shot.
I am trying to keep out of this whole thing but, is it just in the movies that police have to yell for you to stop and fire into the air first?
Nope, ain't gonna happen. While I disagree with the man running from the cop, that doesn't justify being shot in the back, multiple times.
This case is not Ferguson, nothing like it and the actions of the cop cannot be defended.
The path of least resistance apparently has no place in modern law enforcement. Even your suggestion to "pick him up later" would have resulted in a 10 person SWAT team busting down his door at 4am, tossing a few stun grenades, shooting a dog, cuffing a a couple of toddlers, tazing grandma, and then shooting Scott anyway for pointing a cell phone.
See, that’s the point you’re missing.
This moron cop obviously thought there was a threat.
The guy running could have stopped turned and fired
So the running guy is dead because he RAN AWAY.
If he didn’t run,he’d still be alive.
I don’t like or trust cops, but I certainly wouldn’t run from one, because he might shoot me in the back.
In NYC in my youth I had cops draw guns on me on 3 separate occasions.
I’m alive because I didn’t make any sudden moves and complied with instructions
And no, I’m not a criminal and I don’t have a police record.
The ones that stand still are well-disciplined, deadly threats.
If this ass clown turned out to be a mass murderer instead of a regular gibsmedat lowlife, the cop would be a hero..
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The cop already knew he was not a mass murderer, that he was delinquent on child support.
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