This Piggy Wiggy Got Caught
LazarusOblong
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And there's a video, so Michael Scott's murderer may even be convicted.
Of course Scott ran from a cop, so the Brian/Rock/etc. axis here may still defend the cop. I figure the odds on a murder conviction at less than 20%. It's South Carolina, white cop, black guy who committed the black-guy-crime of having a bad tail light while being black.
Of course Scott ran from a cop, so the Brian/Rock/etc. axis here may still defend the cop. I figure the odds on a murder conviction at less than 20%. It's South Carolina, white cop, black guy who committed the black-guy-crime of having a bad tail light while being black.
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This piece of shit isn't necessarily indicative of the Charleston police force. The Mount Pleasant (suburban soccer mom HOA haven right next to Charleston) cops are pretty horrendous...they defend their printed circuit of gated communities viciously.
now think about every other police shooting under "murky circumstances"
We've seen videos where you see someone get murdered by police and a bunch of people always try to justify it. If anyone tries to justify this you know they are fucked.
Hit too close to home?
Open carry would have prevented him being shot in the back?
Video hasnt meant shit.
%0 faith that "justice" will be served.
You can't mean...no, surely not...Brian is not a mild mannered financials analyst but....a cop?
::eek::
I've never said anything close to supporting anything like this but I guess if you don't fall in line with the Soulstrut hive mind people don't like it. Seems like your boy (and yourself) could not resist talking shit which is kinda sad given the subject matter.
SC is a right to work state, it could be this officer shunned the union and is now getting payback.
Still, expect his lawyers to delay trail for 2 years. Defame Scott and paint him as a dangerous criminal. Get a change of venue. Convince at least one juror that Slager was afraid that Scott was an imminent danger to others. (Which is all he needs to get off.)
^^^
this
Sorry, until there is a conviction, this is just yet another sad episode that fortunately was video taped so that we could have a more reliable conversation on what [em]actually[/em] happened.
My only (sad) consolation with this ordeal is that the cell phone camera/video is potentially going to be the change agent that inevitably (years from now) gets better interaction between law enforcement and communities. Not a strong desire for outreach, or retraining....just a realization that now you're more likely to get caught.
b/w
Running from the police never has a happy ending
His first lawyer abandoned too as soon as he saw the video. Good to see a defense lawyer not give a shit about the money and just walk away.
Surely carrying a gun only bolsters the cop's self-defence argument...
...or are you saying that the best way for a black man to deal with institutionalised racism within the police force is to have a shoot-out everytime you get stopped by a cop?
That sounds like a fucking great idea.
Sums up my sentiments exactly. There is a reason why I no longer live down South. Dixie is still in effect, and they can have it! Color me an uppity Yankee.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
This is not a Southern Problem. Staten Island, Brooklyn, Cleveland, Portland Or...
Not defending the South here.
Just saying it's important to remember this is a systemic nation wide problem.
Dan
(i haven't actually heard the tape. any good?)
He was being tortured and he took a chance and ran.
Maybe pulling over in the first place was his wrong move. But I'm not into blaming the victim.
Years ago I posted that America has a police problem and you strongly disagreed. Is that still your position?
Not living in America - a choice on my part. Didn't realise this would be considered lucky!
Really the changes to law enforcement should happen now instead of an arms race.
How does this contrast with other ways in which a jury might be influenced... such as publicly painting the victim as a violent, dangerous thug (thus making their death acceptable) in the run-up to the trial, like we've seen happen nearly every time a case like this becomes a major story?
Given historical context (i.e. the typical outcome of cases like this), it's hard to imagine why we should think it's likely that a jury might be unfairly swayed in the direction of ruling against a police officer, even one who very clearly committed the crime he's being charged with.
First off, there's very little historical context on cases like this as there have been very few cases where something like this has been caught on video. Considering the concern over historical police homicides, do you think it would be best that avoiding any potential jury bias would kinda be good? I don't see how speculating what someone is going to remember over what time period is going to be fruitful, for all we know the entire jury will each have photographic memories. An attorney is going to have privileged information that a jury will not have access to and given that information along with the video, almost anyone will have their opinion changed in some fashion upon knowing that dude dumped him after seeing the video.
On DOR's absurd point that this guy is somehow a good guy for dumping a client publicly like this, dude basically violated attorney-client privilege by saying that he dumped him after watching the video. It's one thing to dump a client after they lied to you and refuse to comment, it's another thing to stage a press campaign and give interviews. In fact dude is thinking long term greed; up front petty cash vs reputation hit/loss of business for defending dude.
The media, lawyers, witnesses are all limited in what they can say.
In the States we have freedom of speech.