US Police Shoot Unarmed Black male 8 times in the back

Bruthal · 08-04-2015 10:52AM

smash wrote: »

Honestly I'm getting tired of hearing "Black man in the ghetto murdered by white police officer"

Is that because its happening so frequently then?

Egginacup · 08-04-2015 10:53AM

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Think he needs a better excsue for shooting someone eight times as he's running away from you.

As you said, thankfully this one looks like it will see justice.

I've seen cops roughly restraining a guy on the ground. They are shouting at him "stop resisting! stop going for my gun! stop resisting! stop going for my gun!" except they're fucking reciting these lines. The guy isn't resisting. His body is just reacting in the normal way to pain....you know, spasms, muscle tension and jerks in response to suffering. Also his hands are pinned against the concrete and nowhere near anyone's gun or not even capable of moving.

These creeps are now setting the stage, i.e. ordering someone to stop doing something that he's not doing so that if they decided to kill him they can claim he was doing what they were ordering him not to do.

These assholes think we're stupid.

"Look he MUST have been reaching for my gun. You heard me ordering him to stop, didn't you?"

Bruthal · 08-04-2015 10:54AM

Dog of Tears wrote: »

You'd be absolutely right to be.

I mean your chances of getting shot must be 1 in millions.

I'd also be worried about being struck by lightening and eaten by a shark.

Yea, but you wont be eaten by a shark while walking down the street, or stuck by lightening on a clear sunny day.

daUbiq · 08-04-2015 10:54AM

A black mans life is worth little or nothing to racist cops in Amerika. How many other murders like this have happened were no one could record what actually happened?

BlimpyBoy · 08-04-2015 10:56AM

smash wrote: »

Honestly I'm getting tired of hearing "Black man in the ghetto murdered by white police officer". It's just like the whole "Garda assaults water meter protester" stuff... there's always more to the story.

If it's as it seems then yea, he needs to go down, but without knowing the real facts lets just leave it out.

Have you watched the video? You can see what happened for yourself.

The guy was running away and got five bullets in his back for no good reason.

smash · 08-04-2015 10:58AM

steddyeddy wrote: »

Since you're fond of facts here's the police version of events:

'Police in a matter of hours declared the occurrence at the corner of Remount and Craig roads a traffic stop gone wrong, alleging the dead man fought with an officer over his Taser before deadly force was employed.'

This is odd given the altercation took place in a park.

'A statement released by North Charleston police spokesman Spencer Pryor said a man ran on foot from the traffic stop and an officer deployed his department-issued Taser in an attempt to stop him.
That did not work, police said, and an altercation ensued as the men struggled over the device. Police allege that during the struggle the man gained control of the Taser and attempted to use it against the officer.

The officer then resorted to his service weapon and shot him, police alleged.'

the article states:
"The video begins in the vacant lot, apparently moments after Officer Slager fired his Taser. Wires, which carry the electrical current from the stun gun, appear to be extending from Mr Scott’s body as the two men tussle and Mr Scott turns to run."

So there was a fight over the taser which had already been deployed and this is where the footage begins. A taser can only be used once so when the guy realised that he couldn't tase the cop, he ran and the cop pulled his gun. He calls it in immediately, I don't see him dropping anything by the body in the footage and after another cop turns up on the scene you can still see the taser in the background on the path where the initial scuffle took place.

BlimpyBoy wrote: »

Have you watched the video? You can see what happened for yourself.

The guy was running away and got five bullets in his back for no good reason.

He tried to grab and use the cop's taser on the cop, and then ran away and didn't stop when asked... Did you expect the cop to just let him go? I admit the cop should have shot him in the leg if he was going to shoot at all but lets face it, 5 shots out of 8 made contact so he's clearly a crap aim.

Dog of Tears · 08-04-2015 10:59AM

Bruthal wrote: »

Yea, but you wont be eaten by a shark while walking down the street, or stuck by lightening on a clear sunny day.

Or shot by the cops.

biko · 08-04-2015 10:59AM

Incidents like this makes you wonder how many times cops have got away with it because no-one was filming them.

califano · 08-04-2015 10:59AM

He seemed ok when arrested. I wonder did they give him a going over in the cells later.

Dog of Tears · 08-04-2015 11:00AM

daUbiq wrote: »

How many other murders like this have happened were no one could record what actually happened?

Four?

daUbiq · 08-04-2015 11:01AM

smash wrote: »

the article states:
"The video begins in the vacant lot, apparently moments after Officer Slager fired his Taser. Wires, which carry the electrical current from the stun gun, appear to be extending from Mr Scott’s body as the two men tussle and Mr Scott turns to run."

So there was a fight over the taser which had already been deployed and this is where the footage begins. A taser can only be used once so when the guy realised that he couldn't tase the cop, he ran and the cop pulled his gun. He calls it in immediately, I don't see him dropping anything by the body in the footage and after another cop turns up on the scene you can still see the taser in the background on the path where the initial scuffle took place.

Absolutely does not justify shooting him dead. Why not shoot him once in the leg?

galljga1 · 08-04-2015 11:01AM

Police officer when asked why he shot him in the back responded:

"If he wanted to be shot in the front, he should have ran towards me"

Case dismissed.

punisher5112 · 08-04-2015 11:01AM

smash wrote: »

the article states:
"The video begins in the vacant lot, apparently moments after Officer Slager fired his Taser. Wires, which carry the electrical current from the stun gun, appear to be extending from Mr Scott’s body as the two men tussle and Mr Scott turns to run."

So there was a fight over the taser which had already been deployed and this is where the footage begins. A taser can only be used once so when the guy realised that he couldn't tase the cop, he ran and the cop pulled his gun. He calls it in immediately, I don't see him dropping anything by the body in the footage and after another cop turns up on the scene you can still see the taser in the background on the path where the initial scuffle took place.

Wrong tazer can be used multiple times including after barbs have been deployed.

The tazer can be used by placing the device up against ones body and it works.

BlimpyBoy · 08-04-2015 11:02AM

califano wrote: »

He seemed ok when arrested. I wonder did they give him a going over in the cells later.

He was dead by the time they put the cuffs on him.

wes · 08-04-2015 11:03AM

This case, shows the need for Police to wear camera's. It will protect the both the innocent and the guilty, so if a cop does something wrong they will be caught, and if a suspect makes a false claim the cop will have proof of there innocence.

Links234 · 08-04-2015 11:05AM

http://m.imgur.com/8jQaNVe

smash · 08-04-2015 11:05AM

punisher5112 wrote: »

Wrong tazer can be used multiple times including after barbs have been deployed.

The tazer can be used by placing the device up against ones body and it works.

No really much use when your suspect is running away.

daUbiq · 08-04-2015 11:05AM

wes wrote: »

This case, shows the need for Police to wear camera's. It will protect the both the innocent and the guilty, so if a cop does something wrong they will be caught, and if a suspect makes a false claim the cop will have proof of there innocence.

Sounds reasonable but this is a country where reason means very little and rarely enters into the decision making process...

Bruthal · 08-04-2015 11:06AM

Dog of Tears wrote: »

Or shot by the cops.

Well quite a few seem to be getting shot by cops these days. Not many eaten by sharks while walking the streets.

steddyeddy · 08-04-2015 11:07AM

galljga1 wrote: »

Police officer when asked why he shot him in the back responded:

"If he wanted to be shot in the front, he should have ran towards me"

Case dismissed.

Indeed. You have to wonder about the intelligence of the cops.

Bruthal · 08-04-2015 11:07AM

smash wrote: »

No really much use when your suspect is running away.

Yea, why bother when you have the oul gun.

galljga1 · 08-04-2015 11:09AM

Bruthal wrote: »

Well quite a few seem to be getting shot by cops these days. Not many eaten by sharks while walking the streets.

Have you not seen sharknado?

Kettleson · 08-04-2015 11:10AM

It seems "running away" is a very dangerous thing to do in the States, just like "slipping on a bar of soap" used to be in South Africa.

punisher5112 · 08-04-2015 11:10AM

smash wrote: »

No really much use when your suspect is running away.

I know that but it was said the tazer would not work after been used once already.....

smash · 08-04-2015 11:10AM

punisher5112 wrote: »

I know that but it was said the tazer would not work after been used once already.....

In that, it couldn't deploy barbs to take down a moving target that's ahead of you.

He's been charged with murder anyway so he'll get what's coming to him.

Egginacup · 08-04-2015 11:10AM

smash wrote: »

That's a bit sensationalist now...

No it isn't.

Dyr · 08-04-2015 11:10AM

"police say a brief struggle ensued in which the suspect gained control of a number of the police officers bullets"

Bruthal · 08-04-2015 11:11AM

galljga1 wrote: »

Have you not seen sharknado?

O yea, I forgot about that.

Bruthal · 08-04-2015 11:13AM

Bambi wrote: »

"police say a brief struggle ensued in which the suspect gained control of a number of the police officers bullets"

The cop gave him his bullets more like.

galljga1 · 08-04-2015 11:13AM

Bambi wrote: »

"police say a brief struggle ensued in which the suspect gained control of a number of the police officers bullets"

Initial reaction was WTF?

But, thinking about it, that could be a pretty good line of defence.
The black man stole 5 bullets with attempted larceny of 3 others.

US Police Shoot Unarmed Black male 8 times in the back

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