Posted on 12/05/2016 12:41:15 PM PST by Trump20162020
I did a CWP in SC and I don’t recall having that situation as part of the law. In CO that item is part of the law. It was even tested recently to the satisfaction of the shooter. He shot a fleeing suspect from a home invasion. Got off.
It appears there was simply one juror who was incapable of rendering the proper verdict based on the facts of the case. The other jurors were all for conviction, and plenty of them were white...
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But that’s not the law, and your statement is a reminder of why there is such a law.
Yeah. Sorry about that. I heard about it on NPR on my way home. I know exactly what case that is. I just never locked in on any names.
It's also a reminder of why mistrials do not attach jeopardy.
This officer will therefore be retried and eventually convicted of at least manslaughter, if not murder, and rightfully so, in my humble opinion.
As a matter of fact, such officers getting off will only give more legitimacy to the generally misguided and illegitimate BLM movement.
So hoping that the officer gets off scot-free in this heinous case could be a counterproductive impulse.
I, for one, believe there should be strict accountability when law enforcement goes wrong, and, furthermore, that the evidence clearly shows that there is a disturbing willingness on the part of police officers to commit perjury and evidence tampering in furtherance of obstructing justice to illegitimately protect the guilty in their ranks.
Any police officer who is not willing to face strict accountability in his profession simply doesn't belong in it, IMHO.
Law enforcement must keep its nose clean, and it has utterly failed to do so at all levels, albeit the issues clearly do not define themselves along racial lines. That notion is sheer propaganda, but once it's appropriately dismissed as such, some very disturbing cases remain.
I, myself, during my lifetime, have seen numerous miscarriages of justice regarding police abuse here in my home state of Florida— absolute travesties— and I'm not imagining things.
It’s not the cut and dried case many believe it to be. The manslaughter charge was added at the end of the trial once the prosecution saw that a murder conviction was unlikely. The instructions to the jury by the judge were 25 pages long. The jury understandably struggled with the definitions of words in the law and how they applied to the case.
If Slager had been convicted there were multiple grounds for appeal. Even police officers deserve a fair trial and shouldn’t be convicted by people sitting in their easy chairs watching an Internet video that only tells part of the story.
How can you dismiss the blatant evidence tampering in this case? That, in and of itself, and having been done by an officer who is sworn to uphold the law is absolutely heinous.
There's simply no excuse or justification for it, and, to me at least, it compellingly demonstrates the officer's consciousness of his own guilt.
Sometimes people destroy their own lives by bad decisions, and police officers don't merit any special exemptions from that liability.
Why wasn’t he charged with evidence tampering?
You’re focusing on very narrow parts of the case. Like I said the jury had a lot to consider.
>> They should have charged him with manslaughter
Going for a murder conviction is practically a non-conviction when physical interaction exists. And perhaps that was the prosecutors’ goal. Manslaughter is an easier conviction to make with similar results.
But this was in South Carolina.
In the real world, the only real reason to use deadly physical force, absent a Castle Doctrine (which is no longer operative in some areas) situation is to save yourself or someone you know from death or grievous bodily harm.
Never assume who the bad guy is.
Abut 40 years ago in DC, my friend’s brother was an off-duty rookie cop, 17 days out of the Academy. He comes out of a building in midtown Manhattan and sees two street scum pop out of a rolling wreck and jump on a silver-haired guy in a $2000 suit.
He draws his weapon (a .38) and screams for them to stop. They do not. He within half a second of firing when, simultaneously, three more guys, two looking like street scum and another looking like an Orthodox rabbi hop on the well dressed guy and another street gut hits his arm up.
Bottom line. They were all NYPD and BNDD narcs and the guy in the suit was a heroin smuggler’s bag man, and he had all the past 18 months records on him.
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