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yes, your right, but the thing is, while it is a very emotional and awful crime, I'm not trying to demonize the victim, much more, trying to understand why he ran? It's very sad....I wish so much he wouldn't have run... really really wish he hadn't run...I mean is it me being stupid, and I am very serious here, first, not trying to demonize him at all....I just cannot fathom why he ran? Yes, it was murder....but the rest I don't understand....am I making any sense to you? Are you able to grasp my confusion?
He didn't want to go to prison. What is hard to understand about that? You say you're not trying to blame the victim, but here you are, blaming the victim.
He didn't go to prison. I'm sure in retrospect if he had the chance to do it over he would not have run and would have chosen prison.
yes, your right, but the thing is, while it is a very emotional and awful crime, I'm not trying to demonize the victim, much more, trying to understand why he ran? It's very sad....I wish so much he wouldn't have run...
really really wish he hadn't run...I mean is it me being stupid, and I am very serious here, first, not trying to demonize him at all....I just cannot fathom why he ran? Yes, it was murder....but the rest I don't understand....am I making any sense to you? Are you able to grasp my confusion?
Right now, if you're not interested in getting murdered, it is necessary to run from the police.
Right now, if you're not interested in getting murdered, it is necessary to run from the police.
Actually, the victim was running from police when shot, so that would have been very poor advise for this guy.
My guess is that if he has complied with the cop from the get go, he would not have been murdered.
No, I'm not blaming the victim. If you have a thug pointing a gun at you and saying to hand over your wallet, doing so may keep you from being murdered as well.
He didn't go to prison. I'm sure in retrospect if he had the chance to do it over he would not have run and would have chosen prison.
You can't go to prison if you're dead, but no reasonable person expects to be shot in the back 8 times for running away. The man was murdered for running away. Period.
You can't go to prison if you're dead, but no reasonable person expects to be shot in the back 8 times for running away. The man was murdered for running away. Period.
The victim was unreasonable to run away from a cop he had a scuffle with who had a gun who had fired a tazer at him.
Just on a side-note, and I'm not defending the Officer, after a TASER is discharged, it is still useable, you just have to touch the subject with the front of the TASER while pulling the trigger, this is called "touch tasing".
The claim by this "officer" that the man tried to take his tazer is just a lie.
If it wasn't he would not a) walk back to the tazer after handcuffing the man he just shot thru the heart and b) pick up the tazer and c) walk back 20 feet to the handcuffed victim and d) drop it next to him.
The only reason he handcuffed the man was to make sure the man could not move and see him plant evidence(you know.. just in case there was any life left in him despite of the obvious bullet entry wound in his back over his heart).
Had he not been filmed the planted evidence would have gone beautifully with his lie that the man grabbed the tazer and that's why its next to him.
There are several dimwitted or possibly racist type of individuals who keep on saying ..." oh but he grabbed the tazer" as if it was gospel "...because... because..because umm the 'officer' said so. These morons should go back to watching faux news, listening to Rush & his ilk and attend their Tea Party or KKK rallies. They are fooling no one only showing how irrelevant and void of logic their comments have become.
If he got away, something good would have been achieved --- he might have stayed out of jail for unpaid child support, and for whatever happened with the cop before the video began.
If he got caught and an awhipping, so what. Beats prison.
The cop shot him 8 times in the back, while he was running and posed no threat, then tried to stage the scene. Who knows. If he didn't run, the cop might have shot him once in the chest, staged the scene, and gotten away with it.
WT?
It sounds like you are saying he should have run as a means avoiding getting arrested.
It also sounds like you are implying the cop had the intention and was going to kill him, regardless of whether he ran or not. Unless you know something I don't, these two did not know each other, so what motivation would the cop have of shooting in in the chest if the suspect was compliant?
yes, your right, but the thing is, while it is a very emotional and awful crime, I'm not trying to demonize the victim, much more, trying to understand why he ran? It's very sad....I wish so much he wouldn't have run...
really really wish he hadn't run...I mean is it me being stupid, and I am very serious here, first, not trying to demonize him at all....I just cannot fathom why he ran? Yes, it was murder....but the rest I don't understand....am I making any sense to you? Are you able to grasp my confusion?
I'm trying to understand why Slager shot him. I wish so much that Slager wouldn't have shot him. It's very sad. I just cannot fathom why Slager shot him. Yes, it was murder.
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