Regardless, an honest cop doesn't drop things alongside a body after a shooting. That's evidence tampering or planting evidence.
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Posted on 04/10/2015 10:12:14 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Dashboard video shows a police officer making a routine traffic stop. Cellphone video shows the officer shooting the fleeing motorist in the back. What remains a mystery is what happened during the minutes in between that led the police officer to become a killer.
The dash cam footage released by state police on Thursday showed North Charleston Officer Michael Thomas Slager pulling over black motorist Walter Scott for a broken brake light last weekend. Slager, who is white, has been charged with murder in Scott’s death. […]
What’s missing is what happens from the time the two men run out of the frame of dashboard video to the time picked up in a bystander’s cellphone video a few hundred yards away. The cellphone footage starts with Scott getting to his feet and running away, then Slager firing eight shots at the man’s back. “It is possible for something to happen in that gap to significantly raise the officer’s perception of risk,” said Seth Stoughton, a former police officer and criminal law professor at the University of South Carolina.
Scott was more than $17,500 behind in child support—more than $18,000 with court fees—and had been in jail three times over the issue. He last paid child support in 2012, court records show, and a bench warrant for his arrest was issued in early 2013. His family has said that he might have run because he was behind on payments again and didn’t want to go back to jail. …
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Wonder why Slager didn’t aim for Scott’s buttocks or legs. Perhaps more difficult target and didn’t want random bullets hitting innocent people in case he missed?
“Really? You think that just because he radioed that he started CPR that that proves he did?”
yes, there are 10+ other officers on scene by then
N. Carolina, Death Penalty?
It’s South Carolina and yes they have the death penalty.
The death penalty is also available under the Federal Civil Rights laws.
_”The answer would be to put body cams on all police officers, all the time and the cameras would not have on Off switch.”
That’s unreasonable. Officers deserve their privacy while doing personal business like anyone else. I recently talked to an officer and on occasion, some of them have forgotten to turn off their body cam while using the restroom.
That would be embarrassing! :-/
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because
(1) my understanding is that the police receive classical gun training, which is to place priority on totally incapacitating the victim once the decision has been made that the situation calls for the cop’s gun to be used. cops do not fire guns to wound; cops fire guns to totally incapacitate the victim. most cops are lousy shots. in addition, there is the heat of the conflict and distractions to consider. shooting to wound risks missing the suspect and hitting someone else, expending precious rounds of ammunition which could otherwise be used to save lives (including the cop’s). hence, the cop shoots to incapacitate, which translates loosely to “shoot to kill.” shooting to kill involves (typically, in the ideal situation) two shot to the torso, and one shot to the head.
(2) a dead suspect is less likely to mount a successful expensive injury lawsuit against the shooting cop, and be able to testify against the shooting cop at a hearing or trial if the question of of “bad shoot” arises.
could you link to a taser that could look like that, in the orientation that it would be in the video ?
for the current police ones, i don’t see it
many pairs of sunglasses do look like that. see post #25.
it appears to me that the glasses that Slager throws are in the exact same position as the image of the glasses i posted. nose piece first, right side up, earpieces extended behind.
i think your right about moving stuff around
but if it’s sunglasses it’s not likely to be evidence planting.
Its been reported to be the taser that was dropped, and he picked it up again afterwards. It was pointed out that perhaps Slager was concerned that he couldn’t control the scene and someone else could run up and grab the taser from behind him.
It does appear that there WAS a struggle for the taser before the shooting.
thanks, do you know what media had that?
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