Police shooting of unarmed teen leads to protests and Riot

[Peanut]

I can't bring myself to watch the video, but apparently after firing the 8 shots he then picks up his taser (dropped nearby from the earlier scuffle) and walks up and places it next to Walter Scott's body. Then his statement claims that Walter Scott grabbed his taser from him, hence he felt threatened. Just... Wow.

[PIMking]

Originally Posted by Antithesis

Hey, I'm clearly not an expert, having never fired a gun in my life, but if ever a situation called for shooting someone 8 times, it would be while they were running away from you after a traffic stop.

Absolutely not.

Even if it were a shooting situation and not in the back he started shooting with the guy 10' away at the most. I don't think he hit him but once or twice towards the end.

but eight shots in the back? ha welcome to hell bitch.

[PIMking]

Originally Posted by Acey

Can you imagine the riots if he isn't convicted? Across North America it would be surely more dead than the LA riots.

I'll riot, just because hes a cop doesn't mean he can do as he pleases

[RedMileDJ]

nm

[takinghits]

http://www.postandcourier.com/articl...ght&source=RSS

“He took my Taser.”

I hope he rots in Jail.

[Antithesis]

Originally Posted by PIMking

Absolutely not.

Even if it were a shooting situation and not in the back he started shooting with the guy 10' away at the most. I don't think he hit him but once or twice towards the end.

but eight shots in the back? ha welcome to hell bitch.

Green text, was being facetious

[Acey]

A police officer may not seize an unarmed, nondangerous suspect by shooting him dead...however...Where the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a threat of serious physical harm, either to the officer or to others, it is not constitutionally unreasonable to prevent escape by using deadly force.

Tennessee vs. Garner is an interesting read if you have absolutely nothing to do, though its relevance is limited here. Rare to find text even hinting at shooting somebody CLEARLY running away and no longer posing a threat.

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/fed...71/1/case.html

[Senator Clay Davis]

The only way he can possibly walk is if they say the tape is inadmissible. Even if you wanna say the shooting is justified (and obviously that's insane), planting the evidence is still on the tape so if nothing else that should get a conviction. I would hope we see a plea deal here with the death penalty on the table, and if the cop says no to a deal they better pursue the death penalty. If he straight walks then yeah, the riots will be historic. Police will basically have carte blanche to murder anyone they want if he walks.

Stating the obvious here, but this probably happens way more than we could ever know. There needs to be no more if, ands or buts about putting body cameras on officers. Sucks we can't trust them to do the right, legal thing, but we simply can't and shouldn't take their word as being fact.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

The only way he can possibly walk is if they say the tape is inadmissible. Even if you wanna say the shooting is justified (and obviously that's insane), planting the evidence is still on the tape so if nothing else that should get a conviction. I would hope we see a plea deal here with the death penalty on the table, and if the cop says no to a deal they better pursue the death penalty. If he straight walks then yeah, the riots will be historic. Police will basically have carte blanche to murder anyone they want if he walks.

Stating the obvious here, but this probably happens way more than we could ever know. There needs to be no more if, ands or buts about putting body cameras on officers. Sucks we can't trust them to do the right, legal thing, but we simply can't and shouldn't take their word as being fact.

You can thank whoever took that video with having the balls to keep recording after watching a cop murder an unarmed civilian. A lot of people would have shut it off at that point and started running, missing the evidence being planted and likely allowing the cop to walk

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by PIMking

Absolutely not.

Even if it were a shooting situation and not in the back he started shooting with the guy 10' away at the most. I don't think he hit him but once or twice towards the end.

but eight shots in the back? ha welcome to hell bitch.

Green text was implied.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

The video. Disgusting to say the least. And tying his hands up after unloaded half a clip might be the most absurd part of this

NSFW!

Changed with murder:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/walter-...-man-1.3024036

[MelBridgeman]

"Tried to take my taser" - key word tried, failed, ran away, don't shoot him

This is just cold blooded murder, glad to cop is charged, this man was no threat running away

Even though we don't have the complete scuffle on video, i think what we do see is enough to conclude my statement

[undercoverbrother]

For ####'s Sake

[Antithesis]

Good grief. That's one of the dumbest things I've ever read, and I lived through the Tower years here on CP.

[Oling_Roachinen]

####, are we sure it's not a parody account?

Murder charge is too harsh for...uh, well, murder.

[FlameOn]

[edslunch]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

There was some sort of scuffle at the start of the video, and the guy shuffling away and being shot in the back only proves his guilt. Why was he running away?

And besides, what kind of man is behind on his child support?

Hope this is meant to be ironic.

Did anyone catch the part about the suspect grabbing the taser and threatening the officer? But the video showing the officer shooing the guy, walking back 40 feet to pick up the taser and then dropping it beside the victim?

[Ben_in_Canada]

Originally Posted by edslunch

Hope this is meant to be ironic.

Did anyone catch the part about the suspect grabbing the taser and threatening the officer? But the video showing the officer shooing the guy, walking back 40 feet to pick up the taser and then dropping it beside the victim?

It looked to me like the taser had been deployed at the beginning of the video when the guy started to run. The video is very damning to the officer and based on it alone a murder charge is warranted.
The news just said they're releasing the officers dash cam which may show what led up to this incident.

[OMG!WTF!]

Might be time to buy TASR and/or GPRO. Hopefully this will motivate some more police forces to get body cams. They should not be optional.

I think the most concerning thing is how this sort of thing is such standard procedure now as evidenced by the police report...blah blah...feared for my life...blah blah....suspect got control of my weapon. And all the other cop reports...blah blah...tried to do cpr...blah blah...officer Slager tried life saving procedures. All too common.

http://globalnews.ca/news/1927072/ho...itial-reports/

[Hemi-Cuda]

Slow motion shot of the officer planting the taser on the body