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Video Shows Officer Shooting Unarmed Black Man in South Carolina

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As it says, he's been arrested and charged with murder. As should be.
 
I hope he's convicted of murder, and im sure his family will file a civil suit so they will get his house:lamo, not to mention he will probably go broke with legal fees, this POS COPS life is pretty much ruined!!:applaud..
 
As it says, he's been arrested and charged with murder. As should be.

Right, but let's think about all those times when there wasn't a video camera. The department said on the news that 'there were no witnesses except that video, and without it, they'd never know what really happened.
 
Based on the video I saw, that cop needs to be in jail

And I suspect he will be very rapidly, if he is not already.

Edit: For ****s sake, you can see him pausing to aim as the guy slowly runs away.

What the ****ing hell.
 
The sun rises in the East. A cop lied about something. Water is wet.
 
Throwing down the taser gun near the dead man will be the nail in that cop's coffin.
 
Murder. No question. Outright. 2nd degree. Indefensible. Every officer knows you can't shoot a fleeing person in the back who poises no danger - and that man didn't.

Unfortunately, it only takes ONE police groupie on the jury to let him walk or a trivial sentence, or a police groupie judge if not a jury trial.
 
Shoot an unarmed guy 7 times, then walk over and pick up the taser and plant it near the body, handcuff the body, and don't perform CPR.

Think of how many times this has happened when someone did not have a cell phone camera.

If this cop is found guilty, I hope he roasts in prison for the rest of his life.

Unbelievable.....
 
Throwing down the taser gun near the dead man will be the nail in that cop's coffin.

It is too hard to tell if that is exactly what happened when the taser FIRST went on the ground. Experts with the video will be able to tell. IF the officer himself dropped the tazer THEN to justify the shooting, it becomes 1st degree pre-meditated. In some states that's potential death penalty or if not then life without parole.

Dropping it later? That is calculating a lie.

I bet that officer does less than 5 years hard time - at worse. Anyone disagree?

Let's hear our police junkies defend this one?
 
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It is too hard to tell if that is exactly what happened. Experts with the video will be able to tell. IF the officer himself dropped the tazer to justify the shooting, it becomes 1st degree pre-meditated. In some states that's potential death penalty or if not then life without parole.

I bet that officer does less than 5 years hard time - at worse. Anyone disagree?

You're right. Cops are a privileged class in this country like politicians and other government employees.
 
As it says, he's been arrested and charged with murder. As should be.

The first reports BEFORE the vid showed up....

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The first reports BEFORE the vid showed up....

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A cop lying? Amazing isn't it?

Over on some of the crazy websites, they are defending this cop. sigh
 
The first reports BEFORE the vid showed up....

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Yup, he lied to cover his ass. Shocking, huh?

Another of many reasons to advocate body cams on all cops.
 
I hope he's convicted of murder, and im sure his family will file a civil suit so they will get his house:lamo, not to mention he will probably go broke with legal fees, this POS COPS life is pretty much ruined!!:applaud..



Being arrested for, and convicted of are two completely different animals. This is America. Just because we all see it one way doesn't mean the prosecutors and the defense lawyers wont spin it another way.

Now the campaign begins of the police dept making Walter Scott look like the bad guy. There will be talk of his arrest/criminal record (if any). Then it will be the weed in his system (if any). Then the character assassination will begin. All in the attempt to create another poor victim of this cop. All a cop has to say is "I felt that my like was in danger...." And everyone automaticly believes him. Had this video not been revealed...he would (and still, may) get away with it.
 
Straight up murder. That's crazy ****. There's definitely good cops out there (mostly young, new ones) but having been robbed numerous times by them on the highway and now seeing this.. Damn. Laws need to be passed ensuring there aren't outright idiots like this guy and the guys that choked that fat guy to death previously in NYC. That and I'm sick of having to have my attorney squash every good 'ol boy f**k face cop that give me $500 tickets.

WTF day and age are these morons thinking they're in? Don't they know everyone is recording their bosses, recording everything now? Amazingly stupid.
 
A cop lying? Amazing isn't it?

Over on some of the crazy websites, they are defending this cop. sigh

TRANSLATION: over on some right wing websites, they are defending this cop. sigh
 
As it says, he's been arrested and charged with murder. As should be.

cold blooded murder IMHO, but arresting and charging is step one, now he has to be convicted for his crime.
 
Yup, he lied to cover his ass. Shocking, huh?

Another of many reasons to advocate body cams on all cops.

Body cams on cops are 100% worthless. The police depts. would just doctor the body cam videos or else the cops would turn off the cams and/or censor specific footage.

In the event body cam videos were available for the public to see, there would be huge discrepancies in the video picked up by those cams and those picked up by bystander cameras and/or cell phones.
 
Body cams on cops are 100% worthless. The police depts. would just doctor the body cam videos or else the cops would turn off the cams and/or censor specific footage.

In the event body cam videos were available for the public to see, there would be huge discrepancies in the video picked up by those cams and those picked up by bystander cameras and/or cell phones.



Well if you believe that there's no way to prevent cop coverups then I don't know what to say.


My understanding was body cam footage was supposed to be very hard to tamper with.
 
this story just proves a little theory I've been working on: If you fight with a policeman and will probably end up dead
 
Body cams on cops are 100% worthless. The police depts. would just doctor the body cam videos or else the cops would turn off the cams and/or censor specific footage.

In the event body cam videos were available for the public to see, there would be huge discrepancies in the video picked up by those cams and those picked up by bystander cameras and/or cell phones.

Which is why any reasonable body cam system would REQUIRE that the video recordings were, at the least, extremely difficult to tamper with.
 
Well if you believe that there's no way to prevent cop coverups then I don't know what to say.

The way to prevent it is to do exactly what the brave videographer did in this scenario.

Retaliation against the police is, of course, another way to prevent it. Although it's illegal, in towns like the one depicted in the video, it would likely be extremely effective considering there are apparently few, if any, public-area surveillance cameras around.

My understanding was body cam footage was supposed to be very hard to tamper with.

That's what cops say.
 
Which is why any reasonable body cam system would REQUIRE that the video recordings were, at the least, extremely difficult to tamper with.

True, which is why it's unlikely that the body cam system chosen by a dept. like the NCPD would be reasonable.

Cops would hate such a system, and their unions would likely concur.
 
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