IDIOTS!

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"The city of Ferguson will honor its most distinguished former citizen, Mike Brown, for his humanitarian activism in the fields of grocery-store thievery and assault of police officers."

ERECT A STATUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by bad_luck on 4/13/2015 6:32:00 PM (view original):

Posted by MikeT23 on 4/13/2015 6:27:00 PM (view original):

Posted by moy23 on 4/13/2015 6:24:00 PM (view original):

Posted by MikeT23 on 4/13/2015 6:21:00 PM (view original):
Sooo....1)  Did Slager intend to cause death or great bodily harm in that split second before he fired?    2)  Was he evil or depraved?

No and no.... Not beyond a reasonable doubt.

Seems like "murder" is going to be tough to prove.     A police officer struggles for control of his taser.   He loses control of it and, in a split second decision because that's all the time he has, pulls his firearm and shoots. 

By SC Law, Invol MS was a gimme with the video.    Up to 5 years in prison.   DA decided to go big or go home.   I think he's going home.

Have you not watched the video?

It wasn't split second. There was a struggle. Scott ran away. When he was 10-15 feet away, Slager started shooting.

Watch the video? It's conclusive... It's MURDER!!!!

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-slager-attorneys-offer-new-evidence-walter-scott-shooting/

Posted by bad_luck on 4/13/2015 6:34:00 PM (view original):

Posted by mchales_army on 4/13/2015 6:34:00 PM (view original):
Definitions be damned!
The public will DEMAND murder charges. 
If they don't get it, there will be rioting over the systematic racism in our justice system. 

Someone has to pay the price for all of the cases that didn't get an indictment, and it looks like Slager will be the goat.

Are you nuts? Watch the video.

Watch the video? It's conclusive... It's MURDER!!!!

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-slager-attorneys-offer-new-evidence-walter-scott-shooting/

Posted by bad_luck on 4/14/2015 9:33:00 AM (view original):

Posted by moy23 on 4/14/2015 9:31:00 AM (view original):

Posted by bad_luck on 4/14/2015 9:07:00 AM (view original):

Posted by MikeT23 on 4/14/2015 7:02:00 AM (view original):
Part of the comprehension problem BL seems to have is that he thinks the law applies the discharge of a firearm the same way for a civilian walking down the street and a police officer during a crime.    It doesn't. 

Also, in a court of law, what happened doesn't matter nearly as much as what you can prove.    In this case, you're trying to prove intent of a police officer while attempting to apprehend a criminal after a struggle. 

1) Murder laws apply the same to everyone.

2) Intent is evident in actions. The struggle was over and Scott was running away.

1) Nope. Police get much more leniency because of the risk their job entails, as they should. Go look at the statistics of cops charged with murder where the charge actually sticks.... I want to say its 12% of the cases. Its much higher for civilians charged with murder.

2) If you believe intent is evident 'beyond a reasonable doubt' in actions then how do you describe the middle east? Did Obama 'intentially' allow ISIS to thrive out there by withdrawing troops and drawing fake red lines in the sand? Because his actions suggest he did based on your statement.... Or maybe Obama made mistakes when he withdrew the troops and now we are seeing the results of those bad decisions (I.e. reckless endangerment). Point being there is gray area.... And gray area creates reasonable doubt... All it takes to get acquitted is reasonable doubt.

1) a legally justifiable shooting isn't murder.

2) there isn't mich grey area in the Scott shooting. It's on video.

Watch the video? It's conclusive... It's MURDER!!!!

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-slager-attorneys-offer-new-evidence-walter-scott-shooting/

Posted by mchales_army on 4/14/2015 10:55:00 AM (view original):
I also like how BL keeps going "DId you see the video? He was 10-15 feet away".

Which takes all of about two running steps. Surely by then the officer should have been over whatever adrenaline and/or uncertainty. I mean how long does it take to come back down off that adrenaline rush? Probably only a second or two I'm sure.

Watch the video? It's conclusive... It's MURDER!!!!

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-slager-attorneys-offer-new-evidence-walter-scott-shooting/

Posted by MikeT23 on 4/14/2015 10:59:00 AM (view original):
"Did you see the video?" will be the prosecution's argument.   "Well, yeah, but did you see the video?"

Truthfully, the first time I saw it, I was "Holy ****.  That officer is guilty as ****."   But, if you step back, read the law and take into account any other number of circumstances, it's not that cut and dry.    As I said, what happened isn't nearly as important as what you can prove in the court.    And proving that Slager intended to kill, or do great bodily harm, to Scott in the line of duty is going to be tough. 

#SPIKETHEFOOTBALL #GAMEOVER #MIKET-WINS







Defense lawyers in South Carolina are prepared to offer controversial new evidence in the deadly police officer shooting of a reportedly unarmed black man.

Cell phone video from April shows now former officer Michael Slager shooting Walter Scott during a traffic stop in North Charleston, but Slager's attorney says new evidence shows there is more to the confrontation, reports CBS News correspondent Jeff Pegues.

The 33-year-old's defense team now says it will present evidence at Slager's bond hearing Thursday that includes never-before-seen stills from the cell phone video that are said to show Scott on top of Slager.

"You need to go back to the incident scene and you need to see where the original stop was and you need to see where the final events took place," Slager's attorney, Andy Savage, said.

Savage suggested he may not have been completely unarmed the entire time. "Maybe he was found without any weapon on him at the time that he died," Savage said.

Slager's defense team believes his Taser was fired six times and that both the officer and Scott were each hit twice, suggesting there was more of a struggle than prosecutors have revealed.

In addition, the former officer's attorneys allege that Scott's DNA was on the Taser and that there was blood on Slager's clothing and abrasions on his knee, and that he had an injured finger.

Savage said the new information should cast doubt on prosecutor's version of events.

"Time will tell and I think that you will be able to judge his actions not by just what he said but what the independent evidence is," Savage said.

Savage's defense team believes the new evidence could lead to the North Charleston officer's pre-trial release from jail, and Savage said he may use the evidence during trial to seek a lesser charge.





http://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-slager-attorneys-offer-new-evidence-walter-scott-shooting

From abcnews....

Sounds like Scott was high on Cocaine

"The 153-page motion was filed moments before doors closed for the day Tuesday afternoon at the federal courthouse and includes several performance reviews for Slager, a psychiatric evaluation and Scott's autopsy, which says there was cocaine in his system."

Wow, if Slager hadn't murdered him, Scott would probably still be in jail.

From NBC..... Did Slager really plant evidence???? BL and taint found him guilty of that already.



The video also raised suspicion because Slager, after Scott was down, appeared to drop the Taser beside Scott's body.

Savage, the lawyer, said that only appeared suspicious through the prism of other cases of fatal encounters between police and unarmed black men, including Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner on Staten Island.

"If you wanted to erase all those background issues in the prism you're looking through," Savage said, "you would say he's securing a weapon." Thirty seconds later, he said, the officer picked up the weapon and holstered it."

Scott apparently had alcohol in his system as well....


You really pick the winners to defend, don't you BL?

You've seen the video. Even if he was drunk and high, he was running away. That's murder.

Black man cooperates with police during traffic stop, lives to tell about it!

http://wnep.com/2015/10/29/mans-facebook-post-about-traffic-stop-goes-viral/