Thread: Video Shows Officer Shooting Unarmed Black Man in South Carolina

Originally Posted by poweRob

Despite court rulings, people are still getting arrested for recording on-duty cops

When you see one of these stories, please remember that it is perfectly legal to record on-duty police in every state in the country. That includes states that require all parties to a conversation to consent in order for that conversation to be recorded. Those laws all also contain a provision that the non-consenting party has a reasonable expectation of privacy. So far, every court to rule on this issue has found that on-duty cops in public spaces have no expectation of privacy and that recording them is protected by the First Amendment.

There are times where someone should be arrested. I'm thinking specially interference or being close enough to pose an additional hazard for police to worry about. I can only imagine the lawsuit if a suspect harms an idiot with a camera, especially if said suspect is scuffling with an officer.

Originally Posted by Peter King

A man running from you with no weapons is not a danger to you or anybody else and shooting him down like this is illegal, unlawful, immoral and wrong, wronger and totally and utterly devoid of any defensibility whatsoever.

And an armed suspect can be a danger to you or other officers/other people, so yes, shooting to kill might be reasonable at that point.

That is an interesting attitude considering that the fleeing suspect was suspected of driving with a broken tail light.

Originally Posted by flogger

Your law enforcement has a track record of using disproportionate lethal response to petty offences and then getting away with it . This guy got unlucky by being filmed when doing so. How many others like him are equally culpable of such excesses and weren't filmed ?

I have no idea and neither do you.

Originally Posted by jmotivator

Of course you are assuming. Nobody has ever argued that there are no bad police officers, but using this video to try and prove anything about police officers as a whole is obscene fear mongering.

Use your same logic on a convenience store video of a robbery by a Hispanic man, would you then conclude that Hispanic men are all criminals?

Never tried to prove anything of the sort. Just asked if it validated anything.

Your trying to use a strawman.

Originally Posted by ttwtt78640

This is but a single incident and has no bearing on other "similar" incidents. Unlike the UFO analogy, not many deny the possibility of police officers committing crimes. Like the UFO analogy, finding one alien spacecraft does not mean that all sitings of "unidentified" flying objects are indeed alien spacecraft.

That is true.

Originally Posted by ReverendHellh0und

Speculation really doesn't work.

So then, in your view the video doesn't validate anything.

Originally Posted by gdgyva

how about most cons/pubs wait for evidence and then try to make a reasonable decision based upon facts

most libs/prog want to yell murder anytime a black man is shot

and they arent waiting a lot of the time to find out what happened before the yelling starts

michael brown and trayvon martin are two perfect examples

in this case, based upon the video the cop is guilty.....i doubt you can find anyone that doesnt think so

some of us are asking what happened in the prior five minutes before the video was shot.....

does that change the fact the cop is guilty....no.....but it might change the charge from murder II to manslaughter based on what the evidence finds

again...evidence...sometimes it matters

Dude!!!!!!! He's been charged with MURDER, by the guys holding the evidence. Never mind that he was black. If this was the same video but the man was White, the pos cop is a murderer. And he's been charged with murder because of it.

Originally Posted by ttwtt78640

I have no idea and neither do you.

Given that just last month alone your law enforcement killed 111 people , I suspect it will be many.

http://www.innocentdown.org/

Originally Posted by jet57

So then, in your view the video doesn't validate anything.

That's dumb, for me the video is clear, he shoots the dude in the back, goes back grabs the other weapon and drops it next to the victim.


No speculation required.

Originally Posted by csbrown28

While I agree, did the officer indicate this in his own report? Of not, do you think your comment has anything to do with this case or were you just making a general statement?

We don't know yet. That video was about the 4th Act of a 4 Act Play. The guy who shot the vid, has stated when he first saw the confrontation, (before he started filming) the two were on the ground wrestling for what he thought was the tazer. And that was probably the 3rd Act in the Play.