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Blurtman says

The murderer walked over to the corpse and dropped what is believed to be a taser. The criminal then reported that the deceased had threatened him with the taser. Surprising that the cop did not carry a drop gun just for this scenario.

The video illustrates the thinking of many police officers - if you do not obey me, I will kill you. The question is, why do they feel this way?

Well killer cops are rarely, if ever prosecuted. if this one was not in video, do you think the cop would have faced charges? Despite the video, looks like some people still support the cop.

lostand confused says

if this one was not in video, do you think the cop would have faced charges?

Zero chance.

Is this cop Sunni or Shiite?

There's no excuse for this kind of cop behavior. If we don't hold our peace officers to a higher code of conduct, there will be no peace at all, and all our lives are in danger. This cop willfully took a man's life without cause, without remorse, and without being truthful about it. He should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

I'm curious as to the police record of the thung that this cop offed.

zzyzzx says

I'm curious as to the police record of the thung that this cop offed.

It's all Obama's fault ... and this time I mean it.

Maybe they should have rules of engagement for cops too?

Like Raylan Givens from JUSTIFIED said:

If you wanted me to shoot you in the front, you should have run towards me.

I'm curious as to the police record of the thung that this cop offed

The thung was black, the shooter is a white, big government ,union member. What else matters?

Call it Crazy says

Apparently, to many here, his past record doesn't matter..

So, if you're a criminal, it's OK to shoot you in the back as you walk/run away?

And FFS, that was 25 years ago

Just out of curiosity, how many of PATNET users have run from a cop when he said stop? I haven't.

Now that cops are trigger happy, doesn't seem like a good strategy.

Apparently, to many here, his past record doesn't matter..

Did the shooter know about his violent history of not paying child support, at the time of the encounter? Then why would it be pertinent?

komputodo says

Just out of curiosity, how many of PATNET users have run from a cop when he said stop? I haven't.

Now that cops are trigger happy, doesn't seem like a good strategy.

So, rather than fix the problem (trigger happy cops), just submit weakly?

zzyzzx says

I'm curious as to the police record of the thung that this cop offed.

a. On what basis is he a thug?
b. What difference does a police record make to being shot in the back whilst posing zero threat to the person who shot you from more than 20ft away?
c. His outstanding warrant was from a family court. The stated previous arrest history hardly makes him a hardened thug - arrested 10 times mostly for failing to pay child support.

Just out of curiosity, how many of PATNET users have run from a cop when he said stop? I haven't.

Well many of the people that post here are SQUARE AS FUCK, so take that into consideration. I can remember numerous times , in my teens, running from the police. A time or two for truancy, and a couple times for being at a party underage.

errc says

Well many of the people that post here are SQUARE AS FUCK, so take that into consideration. I can remember numerous times , in my teens, running from the police. A time or two for truancy, and a couple times for being at a party underage.

And apparently each time it would have been perfectly reasonable for you to have been shot in the back... well, as long as no one filmed it.

errc says

. I can remember numerous times , in my teens, running from the police.

Any of them for smoking mota?

And apparently each time it would have been perfectly reasonable for you to have been shot in the back... well, as long as no one filmed it.

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Well, i had no criminal record, and im white, so those awaiting more evidence wrt the actual incidents, would have had quite the conundrum as to wether or not the Cop was justified.

Luckily, im light on my feet for a big guy, and certainly smarter than any cop in the history of cops, so I always got away.

errc says

Did the shooter know about his violent history of not paying child support, at the time of the encounter

Probably, since it's a good possibility that this officer had arrested this guy before.

Standard police force issue must include a flamethrower. It is the only way.

Call it Crazy says

At what point is it acceptable to fight with a cop and try and take a weapon away from him?

What are you talking about? Is someone arguing it's OK to fight with a cop?

Call it Crazy says

If you have followed along in discussions here, you would know the answer to that question.

And if you weren't such an idiot, you'd be able to answer a simple question.

Call it Crazy says

..."He would face several similar charges occasionally during the next decade until his last arrest in 2012."

2012 was 25 years ago? What type of calendar do YOU use?

Similar to what? Child support non-payment or assault?

Call it Crazy says

Go read the past threads about the Michael Brown shooting.

Still can't answer a simple question.

all the difference in the world...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/3T1c7GkzRQQ

Bigsby says

What difference does a police record make?

This video does make a good case for no filming police officers with in a few hundred yards.
This video was shot about at about the out of bounds mark. At a wide angle like this, you do get a better perspective of what is going on, rather than just a vignette of the victim only. There's definitely nothing out of context, it is what it is. I think if the photog was closer he wouldn't have caught the dropped taser then the cop retrieving it and placing it by the guy.

Doesn't matter since his union will get him reinstated with full back pay.

Probably if he's tried for being a blood thirsty racist monster, instead of a incompetent cop guilty of first degree murder or any garden veriety of Murder for that matter. But the race angle will be more sensational and many Liberal city officials will get about 10 to 22 months of good policial play out of charging him for killing while white, rather than for what it is. After two years of that, and Obama weighing in during his Democrat campaign whistle tour stops, lolly gagging about race inequality and all of the cracker cops. We'll forget all about what was on video and his lawyers will be able to prove that he didn't pull the trigger because he was a nyi... uh black guy. But because he was incompetent and stressed at work and probably had no business on the force in the first place.

The prequel: "Dash cam video shows the moments before South Carolina police shooting." Although the dash cam video does not excuse what happened later, it does establish the context: how these two imperfect people met that day, and how the situation began to deteriorate.

Call it Crazy says

And, none of them even touched on the question, how did a guy who was stopped for a broken tail light end up dead in a grassy field?

Uh, perhaps because we have a video that shows exactly how that happened. He was shot multiple times in the back and those wounds caused his death. I don't think that's really a question anyone is asking.

Call it Crazy says

Any chance, if Mr. Scott decided to sit in his car and follow the directions of the officer, he might still be alive today?

Any chance if you let an armed thug rape your family, you'd be alive today?

Call it Crazy says

Any chance, if Mr. Scott decided to sit in his car and follow the directions of the officer, he might still be alive today?

Any chance that if a police officer 20+ft away from him and under no threat whatsoever hadn't shot him in the back multiple times he might still be alive today?

Call it Crazy says

Well, that's certainly an equal comparison..

Literally a LOL,

Call it Crazy says

Dash cam shows moments before shooting of Walter Scott

Upon further review I have decided that the allegations that Mr Scott was a feeble runner have been exagerated.

Call it Crazy says

I can guarantee he wouldn't have been shot in the back if he was sitting in the seat of the car!

Which isn't the point. Did the police officer have cause to shoot him? That is the point. And I know you are just trolling on this issue. You saw the video. The man was shot down without justifiable cause and then the crime scene was tampered with. If that was your child who had been shot, then you wouldn't be on here making your irrelevant arguments. Why should it be any different if it's someone else's son, someone else's father?

Call it Crazy says

I'll leave you with one additional piece of the puzzle, you do know that it is a felony to commit assault and battery on a police officer, right?

And the actions of the police officer have been considered deserving of prosecution for murder by the justice system, and he has already been sacked by his own police department. Presumably they know more about the circumstances of what happened than you or I, though the video is more than sufficient to realize that the man was gunned down without justifiable cause.

Bigsby says

Any chance, if Mr. Scott decided to sit in his car and follow the directions of the officer, he might still be alive today?

Two things must happen for a crime to take place: 1) a criminal must be present, and 2) there must be an opportunity to commit a crime. In this particular case, Mr Scott unknowingly gave the opportunity to commit crime to the criminal disguised as a police officer and that criminal took the opportunity.

Alpo, it was CIC that said that, not Bigsby. I'm sure Bigsby would appreciate a correction.

some white collar crime does not require presence...

alpo says

Two things must happen for a crime to take place: 1) a criminal must be present,

Blind obedience to armed authority is a recipe for disaster. The police are accountable to the citizenry, not vice versa. These are public servants. The one thing that will save this and any country is a citizenry that will stand up for its rights, and not blindly obey. A country that is ruled by criminals (e.g. Hank Paulson, Robert Rubin, Jon Corzine) has no law.