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Dash cam video shows officer pursuing man [Walter Scott] before shooting
Associated Press via AOL ^ | 4-9-15 | JEFFREY S. COLLINS and MICHAEL BIESECKER

Posted on 04/09/2015 4:26:02 PM PDT by smokingfrog

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To: Tamzee
That’s anarchy.

No, its just the result of an inaccurate generalization on your part.

81 posted on 04/09/2015 5:24:38 PM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (PS I live north of San Diego. Come & get me.)
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To: icwhatudo

An officer may not shoot someone in the back five times running away. That cop was at best deranged.


82 posted on 04/09/2015 5:25:59 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: 9thLife

Get the other people on video and post that as well.


83 posted on 04/09/2015 5:27:22 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Tamzee

“That’s anarchy.”

Anarchy is also shooting at the cop first because you assume that if you don’t, you are dead anyway.

If we can’t trust people who we have empowered to carry guns and to use them legally in the upholding of the law...well, it’s game over.


84 posted on 04/09/2015 5:27:43 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

“when you run from the cops your just asking for something bad to happen.”

This sounds suspiciously like, “if you aren’t doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about” - I’ve heard that somewhere before.


85 posted on 04/09/2015 5:30:19 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: The Antiyuppie

The officer should NOT have killed him, not over something as stupid as a broken headlight..but this guy should not have ran. We have been stopped by the cops on the way home from my cousins wedding a few months back, stopped us in Camarillo(Which around here at night is dead quiet) stopped my brother for tailgating and going 10 miles over the speed limit, my brother never got out of the car, he gave the officer everything he needed, he got the ticket and that was the end of it..you don’t get out of the car and run


86 posted on 04/09/2015 5:32:36 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: icwhatudo

In Washington State the law reads that a cop (or anyone) can shoot a person fleeing from a felony (so assualt, burglary, stolen vehicle, etc.) The idea of a threat to anyone doesn’t have to be there.

However, on other threads there has been discussions of Supreme Court rulings that in some cases will over rule those laws if it is deemed that a person’s rights have been violated.


87 posted on 04/09/2015 5:36:15 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
stopped my brother for tailgating

If only they would do that here. Not only do they not, the law encourages tailgating with their stupid "two second" rule.

88 posted on 04/09/2015 5:36:57 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: smokingfrog

“It was a routine stop...”

And every black person who reads that will hear “...for Driving While Black” after that. And, if that isn’t suspicious enough behavior, he was driving a Mercedes! I work with fairly successful black co-workers and they drive nice cars and they tell me that they get followed and DWB’d on occasion, even though they are out the “troublemaking demographic”. Apparently, this is something that you just get used to when you are black and over 40. I have a problem with this. Everyone should have a problem with this.


89 posted on 04/09/2015 5:37:48 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: cripplecreek

Could be the car was stolen, that may be why the guy was running.

There is probably much we do not know yet, but it sure looks like the cop was out of order.


90 posted on 04/09/2015 5:38:39 PM PDT by dforest
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

We had never been to that part of town before..since its near Santa Barbara, my cousin said the cops are always sitting on the side of the road waiting for someone to speed or tailgate..my Mom was telling my brother “Your getting too close to the car in front of you” but he kept on doing it, and I guess the officer saw it one too many times and gave him a ticket.


91 posted on 04/09/2015 5:38:57 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: X-spurt
especially with video showing the cop dropping the taser next to the dead perp.

You mean the taser he picked back up and put on his belt?
92 posted on 04/09/2015 5:39:34 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: The Antiyuppie

What do you mean “shooting at the cop first because you assume that if you don’t, you are dead anyways”. That cop was being 100% polite and professional to Scott during the traffic stop. Scott had no rational reason to be afraid in any manner or feel physically threatened. Then HE turned it into a chase, physical altercation and grabbing at the cop’s taser.

Again, I don’t think the cop acted appropriately and apparently let the heat of the moment and adrenaline keep him acting with a cool head. I’m not defending him or think that he should be allowed to remain on the police force. But this was not outright murder or racial discrimination and that is what the left is claiming it to be.


93 posted on 04/09/2015 5:40:12 PM PDT by Tamzee (Man is not free unless government is limited. ~~~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: 9thLife
"Boy scouts don't run away from cops."

Oh, BS. My son was an Eagle Scout, and he got a whopper of a ticket for trying to get away from a speeding ticket on a motorcycle. People run some high adrenalin levels during a stop, and do some unpredictable and goofy things.

To this day he can't imagine why he tried it, but he does say the cops and he all laughed about it after he ran out of gas.

94 posted on 04/09/2015 5:41:12 PM PDT by diogenes ghost
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To: packrat35
Shooting people in the back for voting Republican could go a long way to stopping that too...

Shooting people in the back for voting Democrat could go a long way to stopping that too...

There, fixed it.

95 posted on 04/09/2015 5:42:23 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: cripplecreek
"I was only saying that the claims he was running because of the taser were a lie and they clearly were."

At this point, any claim as to why he was running is nothing but speculation. The one guy who knows for certain the real reason why he ran is no longer around to be asked.

96 posted on 04/09/2015 5:42:29 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

Also, it sounds as if, as Mr. Scott is running, the passenger changes the radio station, seemingly unaware of what’s happening to his friend.


97 posted on 04/09/2015 5:46:17 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: The Antiyuppie
If we can’t trust people who we have empowered to carry guns and to use them legally in the upholding of the law...well, it’s game over.

Exactly right. Well stated. Post of the day.

98 posted on 04/09/2015 5:47:29 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Starstruck
Even if there was a fight, and the citizen grabbed the cop's taser, and the cop got beat up a bit, I don't see how the officer will ever reach the Garner v. Tennessee criteria. He would have to believe that this guy was going to harm some other individual or policeman to meet the deadly force requirement.

This is going to go very badly for him. He is already charged and fired, so the dead guys family will easily crush him in a lawsuit. Since he was fired he will be paying for his own defense. Even with liability insurance, most cops only carry $1 million, his family will be losing everything. He won't get the death penalty, but he will be spending a long time in prison with people that don't like cops.

99 posted on 04/09/2015 5:49:53 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: Starstruck

“He was still running away. He was not a threat to the officer.”

The kid that shot my best friend in the forehead with a 45 Webley didn’t seem to be a threat either in fact he was being treated as an accident victim in a 1 car roll over. The he pulled the pistol from his boot and shot Troy in the face.

http://www.odmp.org/officer/760-trooper-troy-merle-hogue


100 posted on 04/09/2015 6:07:59 PM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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