The Murder of Walter Scott by Killer Cop Michael Slager (Best Analysis)

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The Murder of Walter Scott by Killer Cop Michael Slager (Best Analysis)

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Video captures Officer Michael Slager firing 8 bullets into the back of an unarmed fleeing Walter Scott. The shooting occurred April 4th in North Charleston, SC.

If it weren't for the video obtained from a citizen the police report which read:

"...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."

 

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This guy tried to plant his Taser on his body and lied on his police report. I think the mayor/prosecutor is over charging to get his buddy off and to avoid having any criminal conviction on his record. The family just needs to get a conviction of manslaughter that he did something wrong, than sue the city for billions of dollars.

Another dog whistle murder by whites that President Obama's DOJ will cover up, so he can pander to whites..

Next thing you know the DOJ is going to tell me that these girls died from a natural gas leak that exploded. This is another reason why I can't stay in this country, the criminal justice system is a joke. You are on your own with regard to protecting your rights and property.

 

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. . . I think the mayor/prosecutor is over charging to get his buddy off and to avoid having any criminal conviction on his record. The family just needs to get a conviction of manslaughter that he did something wrong . . .

Really?

 

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Really?

 

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Savage South Carolina Cop Arrested For Murder;Shoots Walter L.Scott Multiple Times In The Back

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The officer, Michael T. Slager, 33, said he had feared for his life because the man had taken his stun gun in a scuffle after a traffic stop on Saturday. A video, however, shows the officer firing eight times as the man, Walter L. Scott, 50, fled. The North Charleston mayor announced the state charges at a news conference Tuesday evening.

The shooting came on the heels of high-profile instances of police officers’ using lethal force in New York, Cleveland, Ferguson, Mo., and elsewhere. The deaths have set off a national debate over whether the police are too quick to use force, particularly in cases involving black men.
A White House task force has recommended a host of changes to the nation’s police policies, and President Obama sent Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to cities around the country to try to improve police relations with minority neighborhoods.

 

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Man who shot video of North Charleston cop killing
unarmed African-American man is now afraid

COLUMBIA, SC —

The man who took the video of the white North Charleston cop firing his gun and killing an unarmed African-American man running away said Thursday he wasn’t fearful at first but later became afraid just after the horrific sight unfolded before his eyes and camera.

When he first started taking the video of what became the shooting, “I didn’t feel anything, There was a lot of emotions combined but I didn’t feel anything,” said Feidin Santana, who spoke in a brief interview with The State on Thursday morning after being made available by his lawyer, Rep. Todd Rutherford, D-Richland.

“But afterward, when I knew what was happening, and I knew the possession that I had in my hand – the information – definitely, I was scared. I knew it was something important in my hands, and like I said, I was scared for my life,” Santana said.

Santana’s video –which has now been viewed by millions – has brought dramatic attention to police shootings of blacks across the nation. Up until this morning, Santana’s identy has not been known. Rutherford began making him available to news media. In recent days, calls for police to wear body cameras have been made by everyone from President Obama to S.C. lawmakers.

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After considering some alternatives, such as going to the media, Santana said he decided to give the video to Scott’s family and let them do with it what they thought best.

A lawyer recommended that he get in touch with Rutherford.

Rutherford, [now Santana's attorney] was with Santana when he talked with The State [a South Carolina newspaper], said the young barber remains fearful.

“He is extremely concerned about his safety,” Rutherfold said. “There are a number of people out there including those police officers who lied when they said they gave him (Scott) CPR when they did not and the video reveals they did not – there are people who are affected by this negatively that may seek retribution on him.”

Currently, Santana doesn’t have a car and feels especially vulnerable when walking to work, Rutherford said.

A fund is going to be set up to buy Santana a car so he can get to work safely, the lawyer said.​

Slager has since been fired and charged with murder.​

FULL STORY HERE: http://www.thestate.com/news/local/article17937473.html#storylink=cpy

 

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Mother Jones
April 8, 2015

Between <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">2010 and 2014</span>, according to Columbia, South Carolina's the State newspaper, <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00"> at least 209 suspects were shot at by police in South Carolina</span>, including <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">79 people who died</span>. In <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">only three of the 209 cases were officers investigated for misuse of force</span>, and <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">none have been convicted</span>. Among the suspects killed, 34 were black and 41 were white (in four cases the suspect's race is unclear), and about half of all suspects shot were black, according to the data gathered by the State.​

See: http://www.motherjones.com/politics...a-police-shooting-walter-scott-michael-slager


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Blacks Are Killed By Police
At A Higher Rate In South Carolina And The U.S.​

On Tuesday, South Carolina police officer Michael Slager was charged with murder in the shooting death of Walter L. Scott, after video evidence clearly showed Slager firing eight shots into Scott’s back as he fled. That’s extremely uncommon. Last month, The State newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, identified 209 suspects in the state in the past five years who were fired at by police; 79 died. The State could find only three police officers who were charged with a crime in connection with any of the 209 shootings.

What isn’t unusual is the race of the victim. Of those 79 people in South Carolina who were fatally shot by police, 43 percent (34 people) were African-American. That’s a higher proportion than the African-American share of the state’s population, which was 29 percent in the 2013 census population estimates.

Assessing those disparities is difficult without knowing the racial breakdown of people involved in violent interactions with police, or while police are present — and therefore are at higher risk of being hurt by police. Whatever the popular impression of that racial breakdown may be, there are no statistics that measure violent confrontations with the police by race. We do know, however, that the proportion of arrests that are of African-Americans is close to the proportion of killings by police that are of African-Americans. (According to the FBI, 28 percent of people arrested in the U.S. in 2013 were African-American. To compare, according to data from a project called Mapping Police Violence, 30 percent of people killed by police in the U.S. from August 2013 through March 2015 were African-American. The percentage of people arrested in South Carolina in 2012 who were African-American was 44 percent, compared to 40 percent of those killed.)

But arrest rates reflect police decisions on enforcement as well as underlying crime rates and do not mean that blacks are disproportionately likely to commit crimes and put themselves in harm’s way. For example, African-Americans are far more likely than white Americans to be arrested for marijuana possession — 3.7 times more likely in 2010, according to the American Civil Liberties Union — even though the groups use it at similar rates.

Mapping Police Violence can help us get at racial disparities in police killings another way. It breaks down killings by whether the victim was armed or unarmed at the time of killing. In 2014 and March of 2015, Mapping Police Violence counted 297 people killed by police around the country who were unarmed.1 Of those people, 117 were African-American, 167 were not, and the project couldn’t identify race for 13. That means 41 percent of unarmed people killed by police during that time in the database (with an identified race) were African-American, far out of proportion in a country that was 14 percent African-American in 2013. Among people who were armed when killed by police and for whom researchers had race data, 25 percent were African-American.

That disparity can be seen in a variety of statistics about police fatalities.

The data collected by Mapping Police Violence shows that 31 people were killed by South Carolina officers from August 2013 through March 2015; 30 had an identified race. Twelve victims of the 30, or 40 percent, were African-American, 11 percentage points higher than the portion of the state that was African-American in 2013.2 That puts South Carolina squarely in the middle of other states in terms of the gap between the percentage of police shooting victims who were black and the African-American share of the population, as this table shows.​

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/blacks-are-killed-at-a-higher-rate-in-south-carolina-and-the-u-s/

 

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Come on guys... This is very good information, but can't this be placed in the thread we've already created?

I would ask a mod to move it but a fuckin mod made this blatant repost

I'm just here so I don't get fined

 

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Come on guys... This is very good information, but can't this be placed in the thread we've already created?

I would ask a mod to move it but a fuckin mod made this blatant repost

I'm just here so I don't get fined

Bruh, it appears to me that there is only ONE THREAD on the subject in THIS FORUM, being the one you posted your comment above.

 

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A dog whistle murder, he saw the witness with his peripheral vision, than filed a report filled with lies. You notice he looks at the person video taping for a quick second. A conflicting story would create national headlines. It was staged hoping to put this murder on national TV for his victim to see.

He hoped this guy would go to the media crying about what really happen. Unfortunately, he did not expect that he videotaping the whole encounter. Another Darren Wilson staged police murder.

When are we going to stop being used as live target practice for white cops?

 

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Thanks QueEx.

 

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Hannity Guest Leaves in Middle of Segment
on Walter Scott Shooting: ‘I’m Done!’​

Conservative Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson: Officer who shot
Walter Scott deserves the "benefit of the doubt" . . .
"white officers are under attack by angry black folks in this country"​

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Amazingly, this so-called Black Conservative finds himself to the right of Hannity​

 

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^^^^Classic ending

 

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Bill Maher: Walter Scott Shooting Shows Police Problem Is More Than a Few Bad Apples

Bill Maher: Walter Scott Shooting Shows Police Problem Is More Than a Few Bad Apples

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Bill Maher tonight tackled the tragic shooting of Walter Scott and said it’s pretty clear-cut evidence that there is a problem with police culture and it needs to change.

What disturbed Maher most about the video of Officer Michael Slager shooting Scott is how “routine and nonchalant” it feels. Fareed Zakaria brought up underreported stats on these kind of shootings, while Christina Bellantoni talked about how cameras on phones have helped the conversation in so many ways.

Maher and Ross Douthat went back-and-forth a bit about a new Republican focus on criminal justice reform. Maher said the right “definitely thinks racism is over in America” and brought up the issue of gun culture, before saying that police culture needs to change.

He acknowledged the idea that a lot of cops are good, but seeing the Scott video made it very clear that it’s not just a few bad apples, “there’s something wrong with the whole barrel.”

 

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