South Carolina Officer Is Charged With Murder of Walter Scott

Moving the goalposts. And prove it.

 

Irrelevant, the cop still is not justified in shooting a fleeing unarmed man.

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You made the claim, you prove it.

 

if he did actually steal the tazer and fled arrest with the tazer, than yes...shooting was 100% justified.

save your race-baiting for someone who cares.

 

Ummm Seriously ? That is your claim , your responsibility to prove it.

 

If a frog had a glass ass it would break every time he jumps. He didn't steal the cops tazer, so you know what you can do with your race-baiting.

 

I proved that more white suspects are killed by police than black suspects, which was my claim. You claimed that more unarmed black suspects are killed than unarmed white suspects. Prove your claim.

 

He made the claim that more whites are murdered by the police than blacks, did he not?

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I haven't seen you prove anything, I read you make the claim.

 

he provided evidence for it, and it appears to be true.

 

And I substantiated that claim, did I not?

I'm not responsible for you not paying attention to threads you're participating in. Right there, post # 49.

 

Yes , and provided a source to back it up. You then say " not unarmed" and provided no evidence to back it up.

 

The video seems to reveal that the killer ran back to retrieve the taser and plant it next to the victims body using the classic police "throw down" method of tampering with a crime scene. It is breathtaking reading the posts here defending this murderous scumbag.

 

Justified or unjustified killings.

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Its is the usual around here, anytime someone black is murdered it is always the fault of the black male no matter what the circumstances were.

 

if the tazer was planted, cop should rot for life.

if he confesses, he should fry after being found guilty.

 

I found this to be interesting.

 

The video shows the cop dropping/planting the taser near the dead man.

 

What was the murderers story before the video surfaced? I imagine it was nothing like the reality. And I bet whatever he told them they believed without question.

 

Wall Street Journal analysis of the latest data from 105 of the country’s largest police agencies found more than 550 police killings during those years were missing from the national tally or, in a few dozen cases, not attributed to the agency involved. The result: It is nearly impossible to determine how many people are killed by the police each year.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/hundred...re-uncounted-in-federal-statistics-1417577504

 

Nearly two times a week in the United States, a white police officer killed a black person during a seven-year period ending in 2012, according to the most recent accounts of justifiable homicide reported to the FBI.

On average, there were 96 such incidents among at least 400 police killings each year that were reported to the FBI by local police. The numbers appear to show that the shooting of a black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., last Saturday was not an isolated event in American policing.

The reports show that 18% of the blacks killed during those seven years were under age 21, compared to 8.7% of whites. The victim in Ferguson was 18-year-old Michael Brown. Police have yet to identify the officer who shot him; witnesses have said the officer was white.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/14/police-killings-data/14060357/

 

If you pause the video at the 1:31 mark you can clearly see the tazer being "casually" tossed on or next to the victims body.

 

If he was a felon, yes he was.

I wouldn't have, but he had the option.

 

No he wasn't. His criminal history (or in this case lack thereof) is irrelevant. This is open and shut murder. The cop is a murderer.

 

Only in America can a black man get murdered by a white police officer for having a broken tail light on his car.... and then have a taser planted on his dead body. Thank goodness for mobile phone technology.

 

His criminal history is relevant.

"An officer can also shoot a fleeing suspect if the officer believes the suspect has committed a violent felony and his or her escape would pose a significant and serious threat."

So... Yeah it kinda is, if he was a felon.

Regardless, he is and rightfully should be charged of murder, but again, the fact he had a right to shoot him will be argued I'm sure, if the suspect was a felon.

No amount of emotional arguments can change that fact.

 

The cop didn't see any reason not to shoot the guy in the back because the police departments and the DAs and grand juries alway let the thug cops walk. And even if the worse was to happen and he got into trouble for murdering the black dude the cop lovers across the country would send him at least a $million in a week.

The cop is just another thug on the Slave Patrol who takes pleasure in using violence and even lethal force against people, especially if their victims are black guys.

Some white dude in Florida was running down the street naked high on drugs. The cops treated him like a new born baby. If it had been a black guy they would have shot him 100 times because "they feared for their lives." Heck, one guy tried to rip the doors off of the police station and they didn't even hit him. But he was a white guy.

 

Usually I lean toward supporting LEO's however this one is disturbing. From the video, I see no justification for putting 8 rounds into the suspect/victims back. He was not a threat to the officer and if in fact it was the taser that he picked up and dropped near the body. the officer needs to be charged with tampering as well.