Posted on 04/17/2015 1:40:52 PM PDT by familyop
“This week, on ‘Dining With Deadbeats’.....”
Scott fled from police officer 3 times, assaulted police officer 2 times, shot police officer with taser one time.
Ping.
No. He didn't.
Not saying the guy deserved it and that the police officer involved is not guilty of reckless manslaughter. But anybody who runs from the police is a damn fool.
A couple things.
The cop discharged the Taser at Scott. If they grappled over it the thing was useless against the cop as a Taser unless the Taser was reloaded with another cartridge. Granted, it could still be used as a stun gun but only in close proximity.
The last is that ‘assault on a police officer’ is a boilerplate “contempt of cop” charge. It’s not unusual for a cop to charge someone with ‘assault’ after they hit the officer’s fist with their face.
Meaning that to me that charge is meaningless as a justification for summary execution.
As to the man fleeing the police? The facts would lend themselves to stating that fleeing the police is probably a prudent course of action in some parts of this country where the cops are liable to shoot you and then make sh*t up to justify murder.
There you go.
Why would you present facts on a thread where people are posing unsubstantiated conspiracy theories and self-comforting rumors?
But again, it was not a case of a police officer simply shooting someone out of spite. There was a struggle, a possible tasering of the officer, and then a fleeing suspect. Still doesn't mean the guy should have been shot. But let's let things shake out.
“But anybody who runs from the police is a damn fool.”
Sometimes anyone who DOESN’T run from the police is a damn fool.
Six million cooperative Jews can attest to this.
Walt, like Mike, learned much too late that it doesn’t pay to attack a law enforcement officer.
In the United States of America, the police are not going to toss you into a concentration camp and gas you to death. At least not yet. When and if we get to that point, I may change my position.
In the meantime, running from the police is foolish. It will almost never end well.
There was a black passenger in the care and he didn’t get shot. So that disproves that it was a white cop hunting and killing black people, or the passenger would have been next. So what was the difference. Oh yeah, one fought with the cop and ran, the other sat quietly and obeyed the rules.
where did you read all that as those details were not in the article?
Scant details in the article other than the fact he ran away from a police officer. What are the rules of engagement for a police officer when they stop someone and the person runs away - shoot them? just asking
the video was edited and does not show what happened BEFORE the guy runs away. so it is hard to get the full story.
You have far more faith in the police than I do.
http://www.policemisconduct.net/
http://photographyisnotacrime.com/
I would say in almost all instances, I agree with you.
I leave the door open for those fleeing corrupt officers who are trying to murder them. Look at the goon squad Clinton employed in Arkansas.
If you have a warrant out on you, man up and face the charges, because running will only compound your legal woes.
If you are innocent, running will almost ensure you of being charged with a 1st degree misdemeanor or even a felony. With possible jail time.
It's foolish to run from the police. Not to mention you look pretty pathetic doing so.
Apart from the police officer’s testimony, what evidence is there that Walter Scott fought with the police officer?
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