Sicilianthing

OPEN Season on Cops coming to a town near you....


I told you it was going to happen again... now watch what's coming next.


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Pretty much anyone with access to an American media source is aware, by now, of the video showing the moment when a 50-year-old man took his last steps on Earth — shortly after encountering a local cop during a routine traffic stop in South Carolina.

Walter Scott was the intended target of at least eight shots allegedly fired by Michael Slager, a 33-year-old North Charleston, South Carolina, police officer.

Scott, who allegedly attempted to flee the officer on foot after being stopped for a tail light violation, had already been zapped by a stun gun and showed no signs of surrendering.

The video appears to show that Scott was far more interested in escaping custody than in doing harm to the cop attempting to apprehend him.

Either way, Scott was hit by the gunfire and he died. Wh**ever gunshots landed on Scott’s body, they were fired from behind him as he ran away from the officer.

It’s more than fair to say he was defenseless against the use of deadly force.

The cop is white;

Scott is black.

And mainstream news outlets are predictably excited over a new, tragic piece of fodder to feed their appetite for race-baiting stories of titillating and violent inequalities.

In this case, blaming race may be a right call; then again, maybe it’s not.

No one knows what’s in the head of Slager, the alleged shooter.

He’s been charged with murder; and if he’s indicted, much more of what motivated him to allegedly k**l Scott will come to light.

But unless and until that information comes forth, there’s a far more immediate concern that everyone, no matter their color, can share:

The cultural and systemic status quo in 2015 almost shrugs at the fact that routine law enforcement actions can rapidly become coroner calls.

In the U.S., law enforcement — even regulation enforcement — is implicitly endowed with a state sanction to use deadly force.

“[R]unning from an officer doesn’t result in the death penalty,” Scott family attorney Chris Stewart told CNN, perhaps speaking of the world that should be — instead of the world that is.

Picking up on a story in The New York Times that brings racial identity into its lead sentence, PJ Media’s Michael Walsh observed:

Leave it to the New York Times to instantly racialize the incident; after all, the Narrative must be advanced at every opportunity. But this story is larger than that. Because, in this era of militarized, trigger-happy police, what officer Slager [allegedly] did to poor Walter Scott could happen to any of us …

… How? Simple. Give the police near-total immunity for their behavior as “public servants,” instruct them to bring in money by just about any means necessary, rely on the conservatives to support almost any excess, enjoy the blessing of the state and federal courts, and provide them with enough weapons — not just guns, but tasers, nightsticks, huge flashlights, etc. — to take down and out anyone who resists. We can sort out guilt or innocence later, possibly posthumously.

Joseph K. had a better chance at justice in Frank Kafka’s The Trial.

Too often in the U.S., victims of police violence never get anywhere near a trial — either the officer’s or their own

EL Loc: Massachusetts

The police DO seem to be gun happy these days. This has to be stopped. We do need to keep our own guns even if just for the reason of protecting ourselves from the police.

LAPhil Loc: Los Angeles, CA

Fortunately in this case the whole thing was caught on video and there can no doubt that this was a completely unjustified officer shooting of a defenseless black man. This was about as cut and dried as you can get and I doubt very many people will be defending this officer. He deserved to be fired and should also do some considerable jail time.

Blacksheep

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Hey, Rad Dude, good morning and a very happy >>>><<<<}}}}} to you.
What that video does NOT show is what happened prior to the shooting. Why was it necessary to taze the victim? What did he do first to bring that on? Obviously he scuffled with the cop before he ran.

Now, shooting the guy in the back was indeed murder by today's standards but it wasn't long ago at all that cops were allowed to shoot people in the back who fled from them, it happened a lot, and the cops were never charged with a crime for it. You didn't run from cops if you didn't want to get shot dead, and that was that.

I have to ask, why would someone fight with a cop to the point of getting tazed and then run, over a broken tail light? That the cop shouldn't have shot the guy is a given, but there's more to this story than we're being told.

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

Indeed true.

moldyoldy

This was not the first time that he tased an innocent man. If it was not for the video, there would be no charges, the police narrative of lies was already in place and released to the public, then the video surfaced and the web of lies was discovered. The lawyer quit and the cops had to act in a responsible manner, finally.

Sicilianthing

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They're gonna burn Baby Burn... the Station goes first !

Oh well, it was just a matter of time....

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

True, but it does demonstrate the cowardly actions of a cop shooting someone in the BACK. Clearly we don't know if the man he shot was running from a murder, but we do know it was a traffic violation by your own admission or do we? I guess as long as a black cop doesn't pull me over I shouldn't have to worry about tit for tat?

L8erToots

What I read was that he was running because he owed a lot of back child support and thought he was going to be arrested. Maybe it's time to start using tranquilizer guns for the runners.

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

Hmmmm, so you think it's appropriate to shoot someone in the back for child support?

Yea, tranks sound like a good idea.

Sicilianthing

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That's a great idea... tranquilizers will work... why not...

Damn if I could only sleep like that CAT !
His nose is still red though, maybe he's part pit bull ?

skott Loc: Bama

That is no doubt true. But the story here is not what they talked about. It is about an unarmed man(not mass murder) running for his life and being shot and k**led by someone sworn to protect and serve. Once again.
Also, because of video, we can see that the reports from the policeman were not true, and that he moved evidence at the crime seen.
I was told repeatedly since Ferguson and the others that the police were always the good guys.

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

If he was actually guilty of failure to pay support for the child or children he sired, maybe he should have been shot in the area that would have prevented his future reproductive abilities without actually k*****g him. Then he would be alive to work off his debt for failure to pay support without producing any more to not pay for.

L8erToots

NO, I did NOT say that! The question was raised as to what he was running from and I answered the question (per what HIS family said).

Blacksheep

Very philosophical but not at all practical, NPP. For one thing, being shot in the groin is very often fatal, because of all the blood vessels in that area. You bleed to death pretty quickly. But what cop is going to always aim for the groin and they aren't supposed to shoot people in the back anyway.

Police have it good. It's a very highly paid profession and one of the safest. The on the job fatality rate of garbage collectors is 3 times higher, you just never hear about them when they get k**led. Look at crab fishermen, one of the most dangerous jobs on the planet outside of being a suicide bomber, but there's no parades and bagpipes when they die, either.

So all things considered, when a guy is running from you he poses zero threat, and the cop should be elated about that, and wish all the suspects would run from him and none of them ever shoot at him instead. Besides, most of those fatty cops need the exercise. Runners give them some badly needed calorie cuts.

Nope, cops who shoot at fleeing suspects over traffic stops should be shot back at and hopefully k**led, themselves. We need to weed out a lot of bad cops and that's a good way to do it.