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That's purely unfounded and ignorant speculation. If he would have complied with the officers requests, not left the area where his car was, and submitted to his certain arrest due to the warrant, we wouldn't be having this conversation. If he was compliant with the officer, he'd be sitting in jail right now and no one would even know about it. The cop, no matter how aggressive, isn't going shoot a man just for sport.
The officer made a bad decision and he's going to pay for it. Any jury with a bit of sense will look at that video, see the man clearly running away, posing no threat, and the officer opening fire. He deserves to go to prison for that. But going back to the original point, if the victim had just been compliant, it never would have escalated to the cop even touching his weapon, as he would have no reason to.
I was responding to a question about whether I thought the victim made a good decision to run. I don't know why he ran, but given the outcome, my speculation was neither unfounded nor ignorant.
Maybe if Scott had been as compliant as the guy in the above video he would have had the same happy outcome.
I was responding to a question about whether I thought the victim made a good decision to run. I don't know why he ran, but given the outcome, my speculation was neither unfounded nor ignorant.
Maybe if Scott had been as compliant as the guy in the above video he would have had the same happy outcome.
Cool, you were able to find a video where a bad cop does a bad thing. Please, do the research and find out how many traffic stops are made PER year, and then compare the number of these occurrences. And that's just traffic stops. If you could find data on every single police contact with civilians, it'd be an even smaller percentage of these bad apple cops that are off their rocker.
Now, look up how many officers are killed in the line of duty while preforming a traffic stop. I guarantee it's going to be a FAR greater number than the number of times things like this 3 year old video show that you posted.
Sounds like you're filling in the blanks to support your cop-hating narrative yourself.
Wow, you're quite perceptive. The point in doing so was to show that his version of events prior to the video is no better then mine, except he and others are saying their view is fact and the only thing that could have possibly happened. I was just offering another possibility.
P.S. I don't have a cop hating narrative. Do you have a black hating narrative?
Here's hoping for a looong stay at Lee Correctional for (ex) Officer Slager. Maybe he can learn a new trade like laundering other dudes' underwear and such.
So no, the answer is no, and you are just filling in the blanks to support your narrative.
How about this rogue bully cop threatened him with bodily harm and the guy knew he was about to either be tased or beaten to a pulp and ran.
How about he knew he was gonna be shot and ran?
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