The egrebious shooting in question is an aberration.
Posted on 10/09/2018 6:07:02 PM PDT by Trump20162020
We may be witnessing the repeal of the unwritten law that helps bad cops go free.
It’s been almost two years since the puzzling, infuriating mistrial in one of the most grotesque police shootings ever caught on tape. A jury couldn’t reach a verdict after watching video footage of South Carolina police officer Michael Slager shooting 50-year-old Walter Scott in the back as Scott slowly ran away, before picking up a dark object (likely his Taser) and placing it by Scott’s body in a blatant effort to corrupt the crime scene.
Slager got away with it in large part because he testified that he was afraid. But now, there are signs that such a defense will no longer be enough. Now, there are signs that juries are prepared to do their jobs, follow the law, and appropriately second-guess even officers who express fear for their lives or the lives of others.
In August and October of this year, in two very different cities, in two very different states, two different juries convicted police officers for murdering young black men in abuses of power arguably less egregious than Slager’s cold-blooded murder of Scott.
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Body (and other ) cams will help the cause of justice. Bad cops will be nailed by the evidence, and far more numerous, innocent LEOs will be exonerated.
That would be good.
IMO, LEO who abuse their power should be held more accountable.
They aren't given those positions to lord it over people and take advantage of them just because they feel or are protected.
People will put bad cops in jail, if the local prosecutor is not allowed to try the local police officers he works with. In Wisconsin, Walker changed the law so state prosecutors examine all cop shooting cases. This is because prosecutors depend on the cops they work with. Prosecutors can easily throw a case by charging the wrong crime or the wrong cop. For instance you can separately charge one cop when two were involved. Each cop then suggesting the other may have committed the crime. Such was the case of Freddy Gray in Baltimore. Several cops were present but in the end they concluded that Freddy Gray did not crush his own back. But no jury would charge the one cop on trial when it was possible that others had done the crime.
Let’s see what happens with the Somali Muslim cop in Minneapolis who gunned down an Australian woman without any provocation. His hiring was part of the “diversity” program. Recently revealed prior to the shooting of the Ausie woman he drew his gun and held it to the head of a motorist he stopped for a routine traffic violation. Of course the PC climate didnt allow him to be thrown off the force
Before long, people will have 4K drone cams the size of a honey bee that will capture everything that happens.
There is a War on Cops.
Just last week seven police officers were ambushed by a thug in South Carolina.
It was the second such ambush on police officers in South Carolina this year.
You haven't got yours yet? How else to spy on the neighbors?
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Police shootings are like rape/sexual assault on women. Every case is different.
We can’t believe every woman...the same as we can’t believe every cop.
But...in a “progressive world”, all accusations of sexual assault and cop shootings negate the need for any semblance of “innocent, until proven guilty” or trial/day in court
The egrebious shooting in question is an aberration.
Bad or stupid cops are just that and should be subject to the same justice as anyone else.
This should not even be an issue but unfortunately some police departments protect the bad ones.
Nah, it's just another lunatic. if there were a "War on Cops", you'd know it.
“Nah, it’s just another lunatic. if there were a “War on Cops”, you’d know it.”
Beware of the War in Cops.
Police officers have been ambushed in Dallas, Baton Rouge and now South Carolina.
As compared to the number of citizens killed during the same time frame during no-knock raids at the wrong address, I’d say it’s more dangerous to be just an ordinary citizen than being a cop, who has the entire infrastructure of government protecting them and their actions.
The fact that every street thug shot by a cop is turned into a victim and martyr by the media and by Social Justice Warriors is what makes it difficult to successfully prosecute those rare (but real) cases where rogue cops basically commit manslaughter or murder, as seems to have been the case in the Walter Scott and Botham Jean shooting deaths.
Standard reminder that they are taught to use this excuse as a first response to any investigator, along with "I thought he was reaching for a weapon" and "it looked like he had a weapon in his hand."
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