It's a solid prima facie case against the use of lethal force. He didn't actually have the officer's weapon and there was no compelling reason to suspect the heavy, fleeing suspect was attemting more than evasion of arrest. His superiors certainly felt that way upon further review.
No criminal intent has been established. The officers service handgun was in his holster at the start of the video. The taser leads are visible between the suspect and the officer as the suspect turns to flee. The video does not establish the facts as you wish them to be. Consider this: those who are paid to deal with determining criminal intent and are very familiar with all the laws that deal with this situation determined that murder chargers are appropriate.
Only, of course not. But it will be the most damning evidence presented. We have radio communications where the officer saying things that are not supported by what is shown in the video which will greatly undermine the officers credibility.
Obama does not own any media outlets. Since Richard Milhous Nixon, the relationship between the media and the office of the president has changed forever to adversarial.
The officer is not charge based on the big picture, he is charged based on the specifics of this incident.
Just thought a change of pace couldn't hurt the joint.
Get ready for someone to cue the "bowing to Obama/public pressure/the evil left wing media" response.
Not yet!! :noid: But you just wait until the state owns every means of production. Hoooooboy will you be eating crow then.
Blame Johnson a little too. His pushing through Kennedy's civil rights agenda made large sections of the country hostile. They were democrats in that day, but their descendants turned republican and altered the narrative from full blown racism to hating government empowered to "socially engineer" outcomes, etc.
Cue the "naive statist" rant to come.
That's a very important point that gets overlooked all the time. Conservatives scowl every time their position is accused on being covertly racist, and yet it is the frustration of traditional racist and sexist and privileged ideals and behaviors that has spawned and fueled this virulent neo-conservative hatred for government "intervention".
I like my crow with A1 sauce. Yummm!
Santana, 23, also told NBC on Thursday that he didn't see Scott grab the officer's Taser -- an account that doesn't match what the officer told dispatchers about what led to the shooting following a traffic stop. He said he ultimately revealed the video because what he saw -- a police officer shooting a man who was running away -- didn't match initial reports of the incident. "As you can see in the video, the police officer just shot him in the back. ... And I knew right away that I had something in my hands," Santana told NBC's Lester Holt on Wednesday. |
