Sorry, you just don’t get it. The cop shows zero indication in the video of being beaten. In any case, the dead dude was running away, as was claimed (untruthfully) for the dead guy in MO.
The two cases have very little in common except for two corpses and the color of their skin.
Brown was charging the cop, and had already beaten him, causing severe injury. Scott was running away. It simply doesn’t matter that he might earlier have punched the cop, he was in the process of doing everything he could to minimize his threat status when he was killed.
If someone is running away from me, it’s simply not possible for me to claim self-defense as I might be able to do if he were charging me.
That’s, I guess, why I haven’t seen anybody else try to claim the shooting was self-defense. Most try to go on the rather better approach of claiming it was necessary to shoot him to keep him from escaping.
Your comments, and most of those I’ve read defending the officer, seem to me to be trying to make it justifiable homicide because he disobeyed/disrespected the cop. I agree he should not have done that.
The problem is that disobedience/disrespect of a cop is not presently a capital crime. Nor do I think it should be.
BTW, your remark about the suspicious nature of the timing of the video is pretty silly. What, you never went to see what was going on when people started shouting. In fact, I’d contend that it would be a good deal more suspicious if somebody had been standing their taping a routine traffic stop. Why would they do that except they expected something more interesting to develop.
We shall see. You go to great lengths and stretch what you consider the truth to fit an agenda against cops, it appears. Try going without them when you need them. A lot of people ate crow when they pre-tried and convicted the Cop down in Ferguson, MO. As facts dribbled out, the Cop was right and the media, race baiters, and cop haters were wrong. I smell the same here. That coop had no ax to grind and every reason to want to go home that night to his 8 month’s pregnant wife and two children. You are misjudging this cop. The only thing is will he be railroaded or not when the facts and the other side’s version of events come out.