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When was the last time a cop was convicted of murder?
I don't know. There's one on trial right now in South Carolina for shooting an unarmed man. I am sure it's a very low number as most of them would likely plead down.
That's an advantage SLED has brought to South Carolina. No longer are the prosecutors the sole arbiters of the investigation and decision to prosecute dirty cops. The general feeling here in SC is that SLED does a good job and is good at going after dirty cops. Most cops who are prosecuted are for far less national newsworthy reasons - drunk driving, theft, etc. But SLED goes after them and they do get prosecuted.
Guilty of what? Trying to take a tazer away from a cop? Not paying child support? Felony evading? What do any of those crimes have to do with the color of the man's skin?
How many damn times have we heard of a "perp" trying to wrestle away a weapon from an officer?
That rhetoric is damn old already. This isn't Hollywood. And had there not been video, you guys would have been running with that.
What else?
"I was fearing for my life"
"I felt threatened"
"He was resisting"
"Why didn't he comply with the officer?"
"He was no angel..."
"But what about black on black violence?"
"This is why you should not run from the police"
"Let's wait for all the facts, we only rush to judgment against colored people"
It's a clear cut murder caught on camera & some of you are still attempting to spin this in another direction.
He's fighting with the cop before he runs, and the cop is limping in the video. It looks like a bad shoot, but let's wait until more details come out before we call this murder.
that seems unlikely. Why would he fight with a cop for a broken tail light and a warrant for child support. His car is still there, where is he going to go exactly? Seems to me that the cop was itching to use his taser, scared the suspect into making a break for it and when there was too much distance between the two for the tazer he used his gun instead. Either way, he was going to get that arrest and he got it
Are you saying that the man in question did not owe child support, did not attempt to gain possession of the tazer, and did not flee?
1. Owing child support has zero to do with this case.
2. Is there proof he attempted to gain possession of this tazer? ...no. But there is proof of a cop planting a tazer next to a dead body.
3. Running away from an officer doesn't mean you should die.
"Yes, the officer may have shot him eight times in the back while he was running away, but the guy had owed child support, therefore it was justified."
Pathetic.
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1. Owning child support has zero to do with this case.
2. Is there proof he attempted to gain possesion of this tazer? ...no. But there is proof of a cop planting a tazer next to a dead body.
3. Running away from an officer doesn't mean you should die.
"Yes, the officer may have shot him eight times in the back while he was running away, but the guy had owed child support, therefore it was justified."
Pathetic.
Nobody is saying that. Your accusation is pathetic.
Um, no - the forensic evidence in the MB supported the officer's claims that he was acting in self-defense. There's no way that the fact that the victim in the SC incident was repeatedly shot in the back could have been twisted to make the officer anything but guilty. You see, the problem here is that it's people like you immediately want to make the fact fit a certain narrative to suit an agenda. Maybe it's time to start dealing with every incident on an individual basis.
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Originally Posted by g89
You can't trust an officer's testimony....the officer in SC who got charged testimony does not match up with the video
We need video evidence for justice to be served.
Well, believe it or not, he really could - even a case like this could be botched. I believe that it's already been pointed out that the charge could be too high, and the jury might actually agree that the officer felt that his life was endangered regardless of what we see on the video. He definitely would be found guilty of manslaughter.
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Originally Posted by 6.7traveler
Hopefully the cop won't walk on this one. This is a clear cut murder all day. Sickening. Welcome to Murica. Have a nice day.
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