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To think if this officer gets off the U.S. will erupt (graphic content)

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99pokerface · 08/04/2015 08:15

In Ferguson their were still some saying well he did somthing wrong yadda yadda but not only did this officer shoot the guy in the back he then cuffed a dead body then plated evidence on the dead man

Crust I think Obama needs to make a executive call and place cameras on all officers

I hope ALL of the officers arrests are reviews

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3029597/Cop-charged-black-man-s-murder-opening-fire-eight-times-shooting-ran-away-saying-did-felt-threatened.html

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MrsRossPoldark · 08/04/2015 12:16

Did I read right?! He shot him 8 times - EIGHT TIMES?! Good God, who do they think they are?

He was determined to get the poor dude, or was he a crappy marksman? Don't even bother to answer that!

Sixweekstowait · 08/04/2015 12:52

3 bullets missed

Sixweekstowait · 08/04/2015 12:54

Light - that's awful. Now why would a black man run away from a white police officer?

lertgush · 08/04/2015 14:02

I don't think the US will erupt. It's almost becoming the norm for black men to be shot by white/hispanic police officers :-(

butterflyballs · 08/04/2015 14:11

He was stopped for a broken light on his car. And ended up shot dead. The police in America are trigger happy and don't seem to need any reason to start shooting away at anyone.

I'd hate to live there. I know it's a mass generalisation but the whole country seems gun obsessed.

CheerfulYank · 08/04/2015 17:06

We're not, butterfly, but the police have gone mad. Or maybe they always were but now with phone cameras people have proof. I feel really bad for the decent, fair cops I know. This is dangerous for them too. People are going to not trust them (and who could blame them) and it's going to end in disaster.

It's only a matter of time before there's a riot. If this lying murderer doesn't go down for the crime, it may well be it.

PHANTOMnamechanger · 08/04/2015 17:14

this is a very distressing case and yes, the whole system needs to be better controlled.

what is the world coming too.

Blackmamma · 08/04/2015 17:25

It's a sad thing when the citizans fear the police

MonstrousRatbag · 08/04/2015 17:59

This video shows precisely why a black man might run when stopped by a police officer. I'm amazed people have to ask why he ran, after all the incidents that have been publicised recently. Why did a traffic stop result in the officer getting his taser out? This man used to be a coastguard, for heaven's sake, it's hardly American Gangster territory.

Black Americans are justifiably afraid of the police and have no confidence that they will be treated properly or even legally. It is pretty pointless to argue that all they have to do is stand still and comply with all requests. They could do that and yet might still have drugs planted on them, be framed in other ways or just shot anyway.

What white people do and think and feel and expect when dealing with police officers (except perhaps for very poor and vulnerable white people) is not relevant here. It is no guide to how American police will frequently act with black people. Just ask Rodney King.

The US Supreme Court has held an officer can only shoot a fleeing suspect where the suspect represents an immediate danger to others. I imagine the officer concerned knows the law. So he must have known there was no possible justification for shooting him in the circumstances-hence planting evidence.

Becles · 08/04/2015 18:10

What's also interesting to note is that the officer claimed that the murdered man had wrestled the taser from him and that he shot to protect himself. The same story trotted put by so many policemen, only in this case the video was circulated in the media before it could be massaged.

What's really worrying is that cases of mass shootings by (usually) white men and boys rarely ever result in death. However, black boys are killed for walking from the shop or a broken taillight.

IdkickJilliansass · 08/04/2015 18:12

I would've thought it was a normal reaction for loads of people to run away faced with an officer and a gun, I think I might. Trigger happy murder

JanetSnakehole · 08/04/2015 18:19

This happened in the city I live in. I worry about what will happen if the murderer isn't convicted.

BrowersBlues · 08/04/2015 18:24

I understand completely why a black person would run away from a white police officer in America holding a gun.

I read somewhere that he could have run away as he could have had outstanding child maintenance payments which is an offence in South Carolina which you can be jailed for.

God rest his soul.

Blueskybrightstar · 08/04/2015 18:43

Can't even think of this without crying - seeing a photo of that poor man running-someone's father, someone's son, someone's husband - his little ones will actually see that picture someday. So heartbreaking, its completely incomprehensible that anyone can be so evil - the nasty racist f&ck. and anyone who questions why the guy was running is part of the problem as far as I am concerned.

SecretNutellaFix · 08/04/2015 18:47

The FBI are involved now, as well.

butterflyballs · 08/04/2015 18:57

I remember seeing the shooting of the man at the petrol station, he was standing with his hands in the air and the policeman still shot him.

I do apologise for generalizing as I know not all Americans are gun crazy but there are far too many guns, far too many nuts with guns, far too many police who are nuts with guns.

The whole culture is dominated by guns. Even the shootings in so many schools don't stop it, it just seems to encourage buying more guns. Are the police even given any checks,before being given a weapon?

lertgush · 08/04/2015 20:05

There are millions and millions and millions of Americans who don't want guns and do want gun control. Please don't generalise that all of us are gun crazy.

Personally I don't fear the police. I know most of my local police officers. They are involved in lots of education and community work, their children go to local schools, they drink in the same pubs as the rest of us. Not all police are trigger happy or corrupt either.

One of my best friends has been a police officer for 19 years and has never fired his gun at anyone.

lertgush · 08/04/2015 20:10

Which I guess begs the question, what's happening in some police departments to lead to all the aggression, racism and trigger-happiness? And how can those departments be fixed?

Becles · 08/04/2015 20:30

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Becles · 08/04/2015 20:43

@lertgush

Personally I don't fear the police.

In the current circumstances that statement can really only be valid if you are black or are the mother, father, sister, child etc of a black man or woman (lots of black women killed in the same ways) in America.

Very clearly others have a more dangerous and deadly context when interacting with the police in America. If you are white you are unlikely to be killed or receive a disproportionately harsher punishment for the same crime as a black person. Your death will be investigated and someone held to account rather than being told that your death was somehow ok.

To think if this officer gets off the U.S. will erupt (graphic content)
lertgush · 08/04/2015 21:16

Interesting Becles. You assume i'm not black?

MrsTerryPratchett · 08/04/2015 21:20

lert TBF you said that it is becoming the norm for black men to be shot by white and Hispanic Police. And that you are not afraid of the Police. Surely for those two statements to be true you either have to not be black or have to be a bit stupid.

Becles · 08/04/2015 21:39

@lertgush Whether or not you are BME is not the point. I also said Very clearly others have a more dangerous and deadly context when interacting with the police in America.

Video after video of black people gunned down by police. A 7 year old shot dead in her bed by a policeman with no charges filed, Trevoyn Martin shot dead, Tamir Rice a 12 year old black boy shot dead playing with a toy gun with no warning or chance.

Would this extensive death toll have occurred or been tolerated in the white community?

Thisismyfirsttime · 08/04/2015 22:10

I am confused about the video, it seems to have been filmed at close range by someone who was close by (I saw the Sky News footage and the footage on the DM website) and the person filming seems to have moved from behind the police officer to right beside him at a different angle by the fence. Yet the officer doesn't look at them once despite them seemingly being at close range and filming on a phone/ camera. How did they film it without being caught? (I must add that I'm not suggesting anything, rather wondering how it came about.)

DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 08/04/2015 22:32

The shooter would have been undergoing an adrenaline surge, which narrows the field of vision. After the first shot, his hearing would be degraded considerably, and muzzle flashes would make his pupils contract.

Anyway, we know he didn't see the camera because its owner is still alive and free.

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