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Dashboard video shows shooting of unarmed driver
http://news.yahoo.com ^ | 09/25/2014 | By JEFFREY COLLINS

Posted on 09/25/2014 10:42:36 AM PDT by redreno

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An unarmed man shot by a South Carolina trooper during a traffic stop repeated one question through his anguished cries as he lay wounded, waiting for an ambulance: "Why did you shoot me?"

Levar Jones' painful groans and then-Trooper Sean Groubert's reply — "Well you dove head first back into your car" — were captured by a dashboard camera in the trooper's car.

Groubert had stopped Jones on a seatbelt violation at a Columbia gas station and fired the shots moments after asking Jones for his license

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: South Carolina
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

Who doesn’t expect drivers to reach back into their cars for ID and paperwork when asked?


21 posted on 09/25/2014 10:57:07 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
First off what is he doing out of his car in the first place?

Generally that's what you do when you pull into a gas station.

22 posted on 09/25/2014 10:58:04 AM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: 12th_Monkey

I agree with you.


23 posted on 09/25/2014 10:58:58 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: 12th_Monkey

You’re exaggerating


24 posted on 09/25/2014 10:59:18 AM PDT by wardaddy (Ferguson MO...but i thought blacks went north to escape the racism of mean ol southerners)
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To: blam

When a cop asks to see your license you first tell them where it is before getting it out of your pocket.

You never go diving back into your car and jump out with anything in your hand! He was begging to get shot.


25 posted on 09/25/2014 10:59:42 AM PDT by Beagle8U (If illegal aliens are undocumented immigrants, then shoplifters are undocumented customers.)
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To: 12th_Monkey

It looks to me like the guy was just pulling into the gas station and was getting out of his car when the cop pulled up and asked for his license. The cop was definitely prejudice, I don’t think he would have done that if it was an old white lady but you know that is one of the products of the black holocaust instituted by Democrats. Cops and the public are so use to seeing blacks commit violent crimes that they assume the worst and now of course the race baiters will make matters worse by calling this racism when actually it was an act of prejudice.


26 posted on 09/25/2014 11:01:50 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: blam
Cops are afraid of the violent reputation of Black males?

Then they're in the wrong profession. Scared, panicky and armed are a bad combination.

27 posted on 09/25/2014 11:02:12 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: 12th_Monkey

So a cop has a right to shoot people just because he fears what they might do? He obviously never saw a gun, because there wasn’t one. No, he doesn’t need to be assaulted before he can defend himself, but he does need to have a reasonable perception of a deadly threat. Cops don’t have carte blanche to shoot someone who is making them nervous.


28 posted on 09/25/2014 11:03:05 AM PDT by -YYZ- (Strong like bull, smart like tractor.)
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To: C210N
The left thrives on chaos, controversy, anarchy. Doesn’t look too promising here.

Based on some of the posts following yours I'd say it does.

29 posted on 09/25/2014 11:03:58 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: I want the USA back

He’s been charged, but not with “attempted murder” like he should be.


30 posted on 09/25/2014 11:04:14 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: redreno
 
 
The cop went completely hysterical - am going to assume that just one of the four shots hit the motorist, begging the question as to where the other three landed at. Like someone else pointed out here, this incident is going to be Al Sharpton bait for ever more.
 
 

31 posted on 09/25/2014 11:04:16 AM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: 12th_Monkey

This isn’t Guadalcanal and we are not an occupied force of hostiles, cops cannot just kill everything that moves in front of them.

A citizen was stopped for a seat belt, and was gunned down while reaching for his license, at least entertain for a second, that perhaps something is wrong with the man who did the shooting.


32 posted on 09/25/2014 11:04:23 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

Say what? I don’t carry my license or any other card “on my person” when I’m driving-like most women, I keep my license in my wallet, and the wallet in my purse on the seat beside me-my insurance card is in the console-all within easy reach.

That idiot cop, and the entity he works for have a lawsuit in their future-and it’s a good thing...


33 posted on 09/25/2014 11:05:27 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up yoiur boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
Not an excuse, but why do some drivers NOT keep their license ON THEIR PERSON? This cop wasn’t expecting that.

Some people keep their wallets in their jackets. It's not a crime to do so. "I didn't expect that" should not be a reason for a cop to open fire on some hapless citizen.

The officer in this video appears to be incompetent and he's obviously dangerous - it's frightening to think that morons like this are wandering around not only armed, but with legal cover for their shootings. Every police car in the nation should be equipped with video cameras, as in this case - both to protect the police from false accusations and to protect the people these officers come into contact with in their duties.
34 posted on 09/25/2014 11:06:16 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Beagle8U
You never go diving back into your car and jump out with anything in your hand! He was begging to get shot.

I consider this a bad shooting. It looks like the officer was way out of bounds on this one. He should have been washed out at the police academy.

35 posted on 09/25/2014 11:06:28 AM PDT by Cry if I Wanna
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To: -YYZ-
dittos your reasoned (non bootlicking)response

he saw no gun PERIOD! end of discussion

36 posted on 09/25/2014 11:07:03 AM PDT by Revelation 911
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To: redreno

If the reports are true, this time methinks the policeman should be prosecuted.

Big time.


37 posted on 09/25/2014 11:07:08 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: redreno
I wonder how many deaths have been caused by seat belt laws?

Is it the duty of government to protect me from myself with these seat-belt laws? I think the cops have more pressing duties than enforcing seat-belt laws.

38 posted on 09/25/2014 11:07:28 AM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: -YYZ-

“Cops don’t have carte blanche to shoot someone who is making them nervous.”

But sadly,that’s what they do, day after day, and they usually get away with it. We need a lot more cameras “monitoring” individual cops as they go about their daily activities. Then maybe they will be forced to act like public servants once again, and if they don’t, they will end up like this guy going to jail for a very long time.


39 posted on 09/25/2014 11:07:47 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: 12th_Monkey

At the very least, he needs to see the weapon first.
Cops don’t get stop someone, then shoot them because they THINK he might have a weapon.


40 posted on 09/25/2014 11:08:37 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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