South Carolina Shootingly

[ShoeDiva]

http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/08/us/south-carolina-slager-indictment-walter-scott/


A grand jury indicted former North Charleston, South Carolina, police officer Michael Slager on a murder charge in connection to the April shooting death.
Scott was shot by Slager in the back as he was running away. His death was recorded by a bystander, and the graphic footage sparked outrage and reignited a national conversation around race and policing.

 

[Waski_the_Squirrel]

A grand jury indicted former North Charleston, South Carolina, police officer Michael Slager on a murder charge in connection to the April shooting death.
Scott was shot by Slager in the back as he was running away. His death was recorded by a bystander, and the graphic footage sparked outrage and reignited a national conversation around race and policing.

This is a good start. But, one question that keeps coming back to me is to wonder what would have happened if this video had not been recorded?

A scarier though is: what if the video had been turned over to the police department there? I would like to think Internal Affairs would do the right thing, but I don't know.

And what should scare us all is that this kind of action by the police is why some people do not trust the police and will not go to them.

 

[lotstodo]

I cannot conceive of any "context" that would make that a good shooting. He was unarmed and shot to keep him from getting away. There is no positive spin to put on it.

 

[stradial]

I cannot conceive of any "context" that would make that a good shooting. He was unarmed and shot to keep him from getting away. There is no positive spin to put on it.

I have the opinion that if they run, you can shoot.
Not a popular opinion, but it sure would cut down on the running.

 

[Winchester]

The "suspect" was armed with the officer's Taser and had just attempted (or did) to use it on the officer. But the media did not and will not tell you this.

 

[lotstodo]

The "suspect" was armed with the officer's Taser and had just attempted (or did) to use it on the officer. But the media did not and will not tell you this.

Not likiely. Video analysis shows the wires protruding from Scott's body during the struggle and the autopsy showed that he was hit with the points. There was a struggle between the two before the victim was tased and during the tasing and it appears that he may not have been jolted as either Slager did not have time to jolt him in the struggle or perhaps the points came out. Something that appears to be the taser falls to the ground during the struggle precisely as Scott makes a break for it. According to the video, at no time is Scott in possession of the taser. Scott runs away Slager draws his gun, and eight shots are fired. Six seconds after the last shot, Slager calls in that Scott had his taser. The Officer then immediately steps back to where the struggle occured and picks that object up off the ground, walks over to the now dead Scott, and drops the object next to Scott's body. Things are usually what they appear to be.

 

[Winchester]

The struggle for the taser happened before the video started, it's in the official report. This is the problem with "citizen video's", they do not always show the whole story. And there is a lot more to this story then what you are reading in the lame stream media.

Getting an indictment is easy, getting a convection is a lot harder. And from the reports I've read, I doubt there will be a conviction. But what do facts matter any more when it comes to these situations?

 

[ShoeDiva]

The struggle for the taser happened before the video started, it's in the official report. This is the problem with "citizen video's", they do not always show the whole story. And there is a lot more to this story then what you are reading in the lame stream media.

Getting an indictment is easy, getting a convection is a lot harder. And from the reports I've read, I doubt there will be a conviction. But what do facts matter any more when it comes to these situations?

The official report, as in the officers? Even if the struggle happened prior to the shooting, the man, was far away and the officer repeatedly shot him, went back and picked up evidence and dropped it next to the dying man.
Also, what more are you speaking of that has not been reported in the media? You can say that, but I know I have no idea what you are speaking of regarding that. Care to enlighten us? If you don't share, and all the reports we have heard match what LTD and others have said all along what are we supposed to believe?

 

[Boss 302]

The struggle for the taser happened before the video started, it's in the official report. This is the problem with "citizen video's", they do not always show the whole story. And there is a lot more to this story then what you are reading in the lame stream media.

Getting an indictment is easy, getting a convection is a lot harder. And from the reports I've read, I doubt there will be a conviction. But what do facts matter any more when it comes to these situations?

The official report, as in the officers? Even if the struggle happened prior to the shooting, the man, was far away and the officer repeatedly shot him, went back and picked up evidence and dropped it next to the dying man.
Also, what more are you speaking of that has not been reported in the media? You can say that, but I know I have no idea what you are speaking of regarding that. Care to enlighten us? If you don't share, and all the reports we have heard match what LTD and others have said all along what are we supposed to believe?

The officer stated the guy he was trying to arrest grabbed his taser and shot him with it. The taser was indeed on the ground where the struggle occurred. He went back and picked it up before putting it on the ground next to the guy. Should he have shot him? Perhaps at the time, he thought the guy still had the taser. The guy who videotaped the shooting, started videotaping because he saw the two of them struggling. By the time he got his phone out and started, the guy the officer was trying to arrest began to run away.

The video certainly doesn't look good for the officer, but the video doesn't tell the entire story either. It doesn't show you what was taking place before the video actually starts. Now we do know from the police cam in the patrol car the police officer pulled him over and the guy took off running. Fleeing and eluding a police officer in some states is a felony; I know it is in MI. Assault and battery of a police officer is a felony in many states as well. The trial will produce all the evidence from both sides and a jury will decide if the officer is guilty or not. I'm not going to say he's guilty or innocent because I haven't seen all the evidence.