j-mac ;1064522699 said:
I have a question for ya....
You are doing the same damn thing others have been doing.
The answer you seek has already been provided.
j-mac ;1064522699 said:
but if you look at the video captured by the bystander, it appears more like the suspect slapped the taser from Slager's hand, or even that Slager threw the taser to the ground as the suspect started to take flight, in order to draw his gun....So, what evidence do you see that the suspect "took" possession of the taser?
No,
it really does not appear that way when one carefully and thoroughly examines the video.
Examine the following frames in the below quote.
The Officer's hands are occupied. The left hand is holding on to the suspect, and the right hand
is already in a downward movement to draw his firearm
prior to the supposed taser coming into the frame.
(a downward movement, not a backwards movement.)
The force and direction of the supposed taser's movement shows it is impossible for it to have come from the downward movement of the Officer's hand.
And it can clearly be seen that the Officer's hand is not in a position for a taser to have been knocked from it. That simply didn't happen.
Then the second frame shows that the Officer is already drawing his firearm before the taser touches the ground, again showing it hadn't come from, or knocked from, the Officer's hands.
Excon ;1064518067 said:
Here it can be seen that the Officer is already reaching for his firearm prior to the taser being thrown by the suspect.
j-mac ;1064522699 said:
and I think it's reasonable to assume that the Chief of Police for N. Charleston also knows the law, yet, he still fired Slager, and had him placed under arrest for Murder....
Dismissible on three fronts
1. That is an appeal to authority, and as such, irrelevant.
2. Given what the video actually shows, it is unlikely that the Chief gave it a careful or thorough examination. Nor was he or his department the ones who made the charge for arrest purposes.
3. Knows the law? Officers have a general knowledge, but are not any more informed to the intricacies of the law and how it is applied.
e.g.: The detective who wanted to charge Zimmerman even though the evidence wasn't there to support such charge.
j-mac ;1064522699 said:
What you are saying is something that the court has to decide...
Irrelevant to debate.
j-mac ;1064522699 said:
Police are trained observers...Or should be...
A myth.
Like the populace in general, some Officer's are better at observation than others.
Most observational skills an Officer has are innate or come from on the job experience.
Officers are trained to react to stimuli.
This training helps them overcome the heightened traumatic state they may find themselves in during encounters, and though not always, it better prepares them to act without freezing.
But none of this eliminates the possibility that the Officer will experience tunnel vision which such a heightened state may induce.
So of course he may not have seen the suspect throw the taser.
j-mac ;1064522699 said:
It is clear that the suspect is running with NOTHING in his hands, why?
Irrelevant to the point that the had it when the Officer began to draw his firearm.
j-mac ;1064522699 said:
Because he didn't "take" the taser, instead slapped it out of Slager's hand.
It clearly does not show that. The thrown taser could have only come from the suspect.
Why would he throw it?
Because he saw the Officer drawing his firearm after he received a warning.