Featured White Cop Shoots Black Man in Back as He Runs Away After Being Tased

The truly sickening two parts to this tragedy are, first, that Slager openly executes this man who is fleeing and, second, the official police reports justify the shooting via lies corroborated by other officers.

I'm beyond sickened at the state of our country. We deserve nothing but the judgment of God these days. It is only by His mercy that we don't receive it.

 

I am still just flabbergasted watching this video. How does another human being CALMLY stand and just shoot someone like that as though it's just target practice?

Officers who are afraid for their lives usually keep their weapons up ready to fire again as they approach a suspect. He just nonchalantly walked over to the guy as he seemed to then radio something.

Just crazy! God help us.raying:

 

WOW! I hadn't heard about that second part. It's systemic. They do this stuff and then cover for one another.

 

A Taser is being used as justification for the use of deadly force?

The cop should go down for murder.

 

From what I saw later in the video the cop drop a taser by the guy as if planting it! That's messed up! If the guy was running away and the cop cannot tackle him let him go! Cops have a hard enough time then some jackass cop pulls this?

 

From watching the clip I'd say that's exactly what will happen.

 

This whole thing is strange. From the video, the cop knew he was being filmed yet he just stood there calmly firing shots into some overweight older guy running away. Then yet another cop just stands over the deceased while the first cop goes away and drops something at the scene.

Well, videotapes can be very deceiving and they can be easily doctored but there are ways to blow up that drop to see exactly what was put there and why. I think judgement should be reserved here, to me it looks like voluntary manslaughter at best, not murder one as charged.

 

How can you tell that he knew?

 

Yep. Agree.

 

It was shot using a cellphone and at one point Slager turned and looked directly at the witness. He should have known that the cellphone could be used to tape.

Murder One will be hard to prove but I think they are deliberately overcharging here.

 

What? Deliberately overcharging? Huh?

 

Yes, in order to get the cop to plea to a lesser charge. Supposedly, Slager's attorney just quit because of a conflict with the client.

Unless this video has been proven doctored, the cop will not skate. But the bar for a successful murder one is very high - you have to prove a depraved mind and malicious forethought and there looks like there's little premeditation here by this alone. *If* he did indeed plant the laser, that opens the door to second degree but not first, as it would be like covering up a known crime.

 

Thanks for elaborating. An interesting possibility.

 

Missed that.

 

Reports are saying the cop picked up the taser off the ground like the guy dropped it when he was shot. I still like to know why is a 50 year old dude running from the cops?

 

No. He's dead because he resisted arrest and attempted to flee.

But with just the video as evidence, it certainly appears to be an illegal use of deadly force by the police officer.

 

He's dead because an officer broke the law he had sworn to uphold.

There is just nothing in that video that says the officer murdered this guy as though it were target practice. There was NOTHING in his stance that said he feared for his life. He had his gun down as he approached the down suspect. And cops never do that if they are afraid. They keep that gun drawn.

 

What is it about "illegal use of deadly force" that you don't understand? I'm sure the police officer will pay for his crime if the video holds up as what it appears to be.

That doesn't change the fact that there is no evidence at all to indicate that any kind of force would have been used if the victim had not stupidly resisted arrest and tried to flee.

The fact that he paid for his stupidity with his life is a tragedy, but, in real life, that happens sometimes with such decisions.