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Slager gets 20y for shooting

Should have been an LWOP, if that was a potential punishment.

Agree, but considering that the system is generally very LE-emapthetic, I would rather get that than have them overcharge and we get nothing. We're not going to fix the inconsistencies of the court system in one case, and this is a positive step.
 
My cynical side says ONLY because a video of it went public.

Your cynical side is correct. Without the video, the public would not have known that Slager planted the taser near Scott's corpse, while another cop watched him do it.

The story would have been something along the lines of "I proceeded to chase Mr. Scott, who spun around and aimed my taser at me. At that point I opened fire". But there was a video. So he had to go with...."I was scared of the unarmed black man running away from me"
 
I figured he would. You can’t shoot someone who is running away from you and be innocent.
 
I figured he would. You can’t shoot someone who is running away from you and be innocent.

You can if you're a cop. There was video of it this time and that's why he didn't get away with it.
 
You can if you're a cop. There was video of it this time and that's why he didn't get away with it.

Can you show me the case where the forensics proved the victim was shot in the back and the cop got away with it?
 
No, I'm not looking for an article complaining about every police officer who shot people and wasn't convicted.

I want to know a specific case or cases where forensics proved that the victim was shot in the back and the officer was acquitted.

Read the article, then.

With some people here I would expect a defensive reflexive denial, but I thought you were a more reasonable person.
 
Read the article, then.

With some people here I would expect a defensive reflexive denial, but I thought you were a more reasonable person.

I'm a very reasonable person. Do you have a specific case for me to look at?
 
Read the article. They're glaringly obvious.

So you don't have a specific case for me? You just assume all police officers who weren't convicted should've been no matter what the forensics and other evidence showed? Defensive reflexive denial, indeed.
 
So you don't have a specific case for me? You just assume all police officers who weren't convicted should've been no matter what the forensics and other evidence showed? Defensive reflexive denial, indeed.

From the article.

They also include a police officer in Darlington County, S.C., who was charged with murder after he chased an unarmed man wanted for stealing a gas grill and three U-Haul trailers into the woods, shooting him in the back four times. A jury, believing that he feared for his life, found him not guilty.

Maybe when someone says the answer you seek is in the article, just read the ****ing article. Or just be lazy and and slink off, but don't be lazy and claim some sort of victory of it. That's low class.
 
From the article.



Maybe when someone says the answer you seek is in the article, just read the ****ing article. Or just be lazy and and slink off, but don't be lazy and claim some sort of victory of it. That's low class.

I wasn't asking for an entire article about all police officers who were acquitted. I was asking for a specific case. I don't see the name of the police officer or person killed so I can look up the case. Do you have those details?
 
I wasn't asking for an entire article about all police officers who were acquitted. I was asking for a specific case. I don't see the name of the police officer or person killed so I can look up the case. Do you have those details?

Darlington County sheriff's investigator Tim Robertson, 41, was charged with voluntary manslaughter in the death of William E. Sheffield, 45, on Dec. 29. 2005

Although, I feel he satisfied the criteria of information with that article considering the nature of the challenge you presented. This is just splitting hairs so you can say "If you can't show me this, then you have nothing."

Well there you go, took three seconds to google. Waste others people time with laziness next time.
 
Darlington County sheriff's investigator Tim Robertson, 41, was charged with voluntary manslaughter in the death of William E. Sheffield, 45, on Dec. 29. 2005

Although, I feel he satisfied the criteria of information with that article considering the nature of the challenge you presented. This is just splitting hairs so you can say "If you can't show me this, then you have nothing."

Well there you go, took three seconds to google. Waste others people time with laziness next time.

My "challenge" was just to get a specific case, not an entire article about several cases that don't pertain to the particular thing we were discussing (officer shooting someone in the back being acquitted). What's lazy is to just google "cops acquitted" or whatever he googled and posting the first article he sees. As I said, I was asking for a specific case. Thank you for providing me one to research. I'm looking up the case you mentioned right now to see how it all went, what evidence was presented and how the jury came to their conclusion. It doesn't make sense to me that anyone would be acquitted for shooting someone who was running away so I'm interested in the details. Be back soon.
 
Okay, I read about the Roberston/Sheffield case. Sheffield was a violent career criminal who had numerous warrants out of his arrest. Robertson (the officer) spotted Sheffield, called for back up and went to arrest him. Sheffield and Robertson got into a scuffle where Sheffield was trying to grab the officer's gun. There was twisting and turning which always happens in a struggle, shots fired - Sheffield ran away to his barn (no shots were fired as he was running away). The officer pursues him into the barn and Sheffield confronts the officer again - grabbing the officer's gun, another physical struggle to see who would get the gun and who would shoot who. The officer gets his gun away and shoots again. The experts testified that the gunshots were consistent with a struggle and not (as the girlfriend tried to say) with the man running away. Sounds like the jury got it right.

Slager was obviously guilty. You aren't in fear of your life if the person you're shooting is literally running away from you. Any police officer who shoots someone while they are running away should be in prison for life.
 
It's about time!

IMO - due to the nature of the job, we've got give our LEO's the very best benefit of doubt. But when there's proof beyond doubt, throw the book at 'em! They've betrayed the public trust, which is a bigger deal than only their personal actions in relation to them.

I'm an 18 year law enforcement veteran and I agree with you wholeheartedly on this. One of my duties during my time on the job was internal affairs. Most cops didn't want that job, but I was fine with it. I made sure that if a cop was dirty, he was unemployed at best, charged with a criminal offense if the circumstances warranted it.

The part of being a cop nobody really talks about, is that when you take on the responsibility of a law enforcer, you put yourself in the position of having to make sure you get it right every time. If you don't you could suffer the consequences. When it comes to lethal force, you had better be right. If you make a mistake and kill someone and you weren't justified, your career should be over. It's just that simple. Anyone else accidentally kills someone they are charged. If you deliberately kill someone and you weren't justified, you get charged. Cops should be held to the same standard.

Don't get me wrong, you pull a toy gun out and it looks real, you're a ghost. But you don't shoot people for going for their wallet. That's why you train so much, so when that situation comes up, you get it right.

I just wish there weren't so many armchair law enforcement experts and cop haters on this site. It's ugly.
 
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