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White US officer charged with murder for shooting black man
BRUCE SMITH, Associated Press

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) — A white police officer was charged with murder Tuesday in the weekend shooting death of a black motorist after a traffic stop.

City Patrolman Michael Thomas Slager was arrested and charged after law enforcement officials saw a video of the shooting following a Saturday traffic stop, North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey told a hastily called news conference.

The shooting occurred as heightened scrutiny is being placed on police officer shootings, particularly those that involve white officers and unarmed black suspects. A grand jury declined to indict Ferguson, Missouri, officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown last August, leading to nationwide protests.

Authorities say the South Carolina victim, 50-year-old Walter Lamer Scott of Charleston, was shot after the officer already hit him with a stun gun. A video of the shooting released to news media outlets shows the officer firing several times at the man's back while he's running away.

Summey said at a news conference that Slager made a "bad decision."

"When you're wrong, you're wrong," Summey said. "When you make a bad decision, don't care if you're behind the shield or a citizen on the street, you have to live with that decision."

Slager's attorney had released a statement Monday saying the officer felt threatened and that the motorist was trying to grab the officer's stun gun. The attorney told The Post and Courier of Charleston on Tuesday that he no longer represents the officer.

North Charleston Police said Slager was arrested by officers of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.

In a separate case in South Carolina, a white police officer who shot a 68-year-old black man to death last year in his driveway was charged Tuesday with a felony: discharging a gun into an occupied vehicle. A prosecutor previously tried to indict North Augusta officer Justin Craven on a manslaughter charge in the February 2014 death of Ernest Satterwhite. But a grand jury instead chose misconduct in office, which is a far lesser charge.

Craven chased Satterwhite for 9 miles (15 kilometers) beyond city limits to the man's driveway in Edgefield County. After Satterwhite parked, the officer repeatedly fired through the driver-side door, prosecutors said. The 25-year-old officer faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of the gun charge.

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While it's generally well known SC is a right wing state dominated by tea party and other righteous types, Charlotte county in which North Charlotte municipality is located gets a strong Democratic party vote that pretty much holds off the local Republican vote.

Half the local population is black, so that would increase the strength of the jury.

When the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division of the state government, SLED, saw the video, it immediately asked the county prosecutor to file the murder charges.

The county solicitor, Scarlett O'Hara A. Wilson, didn't herself hesitate to write a murder charge after seeing the video so now the homicide cop is being held without bond. The elected Wilson had already been a favorite target of the conservative right as a "felon's friend," so it looks like she might well show the corrupt Ferguson 'prosecutor' and others on the far right how these things need to be done.

In SC, police departments are investigated by the state rather than by the police department's own internal investigations or review. Prosecution is at the county level by the elected county solicitor, in this instance Ms Wilson.

The white guy long time Mayor Keith Summy had already received the AME Black History Humanitarian Award and the Police Chief Eddie Driggers, appointed by the mayor, has spent his three years to date as chief revising police relations with the black community to generally strong reviews. The SC junior US Senator, Republican Tim Scott, said from Washington the shooting was "unnecessary" and a "tragedy."

The homicide cop and the second cop that arrived moments later at the scene of the homicide had told their make-believe story to the authorities, which was the only story until the young black guy who recorded the homicide decided it was personally safe for him to release it. Looks like obstruction of justice might be added to a rapidly lengthening list of very serious charges.

South Carolina....who wouldda thunk the authorities there woulda come down on a killer cop in this immediate and severe way. Even this cop's lawyer quit yesterday after he saw the video.

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As this all began as a routine pull-over for a broken rear light, one has to ask if it was seen as necessary for anyone to be shot several times IN THE BACK ?

Seems to me that the Police Forces in the US are still using the old 'shoot first, ask questions afterwards' routine that harks back to Cowboy days.

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The evidence looks pretty damning, but the O.P headline is disgusting as it presupposes race to be a motive and ensures it will be seen that way by any jury and the general public.

In every single case, where a white cop shoots a black suspect (usually unarmed), the cop will ALWAYS say that race was not a motive. Always. 100% of the time. Of course, the body of evidence would suggest otherwise.

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The video says all.

To shot a unarmed person on the back, 8 times, and without any valid reason, is plain premeditated assassination. If this police officer do not spend the rest of his life in jail, the US justice system is failed.

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Watch the Video

YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE THE GUY GRAB AND DROP THE POLICE OFFICERS TAZER its right at the start of the video and you can see the Tazer fall to the ground THAT GIVES the officer the right to shoot since he may not of seen the tazer fall and may of thought the guy still had it.

This cop will be the scape goat and will be sacraficed to appease the blacks and left wing nutters

I am betting this guy may just get off when all the evidence is presented again.

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What it does not mention in the O.P headline is that the officer's partner as seen on the video was also black. The evidence looks pretty damning, but the O.P headline is disgusting as it presupposes race to be a motive and ensures it will be seen that way by any jury and the general public. Had the roles been reversed I wonder whether the words black and white would have also made the O.P?

the officer's partner as seen on the video was also black

That's two officers to be investigated.

The evidence looks pretty damning,

The evidence is absolutely damning. President Lincoln turned over in his grave and tragically he's the only Republican upset about this. Both cops need to be thoroughly investigated and, if the evidence is confirmed, prosecuted without fear or favor in a court of law.

the O.P headline is disgusting

If it goes to trial an impartial jury will be seated, meaning the jurors will be accepted as competent by the lawyers on each side and by the judge.

Had the roles been reversed

Nobody would be dead. The facts show what happened. Trying to create and to fantasize about what didn't happen changes nothing of the reality of what did happen. Look at the video again to deal with the facts on the ground, of what did in fact happen. Trying to make objective reality into subjective fiction fails....it fails each time and every time. What happened is what we all have before us as the objective reality.

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The evidence looks pretty damning, but the O.P headline is disgusting as it presupposes race to be a motive and ensures it will be seen that way by any jury and the general public.

In every single case, where a white cop shoots a black suspect (usually unarmed), the cop will ALWAYS say that race was not a motive. Always. 100% of the time. Of course, the body of evidence would suggest otherwise.

I think it doesn't matter if it is for the race or just "normal" murder.

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Watch the Video

YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE THE GUY GRAB AND DROP THE POLICE OFFICERS TAZER its right at the start of the video and you can see the Tazer fall to the ground THAT GIVES the officer the right to shoot since he may not of seen the tazer fall and may of thought the guy still had it.

This cop will be the scape goat and will be sacraficed to appease the blacks and left wing nutters

I am betting this guy may just get off when all the evidence is presented again.

Well that's an interesting take on it. Did you see the running away guy try and use a taser, genius?

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Watch the Video

YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE THE GUY GRAB AND DROP THE POLICE OFFICERS TAZER its right at the start of the video and you can see the Tazer fall to the ground THAT GIVES the officer the right to shoot since he may not of seen the tazer fall and may of thought the guy still had it.

He knew where it was when he jogged straight over to pick it up and planted it next to the guy he'd just shot.

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ARE YOU ALL <deleted> BLIND

Watch the Video

YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE THE GUY GRAB AND DROP THE POLICE OFFICERS TAZER its right at the start of the video and you can see the Tazer fall to the ground THAT GIVES the officer the right to shoot since he may not of seen the tazer fall and may of thought the guy still had it.

This cop will be the scape goat and will be sacraficed to appease the blacks and left wing nutters

I am betting this guy may just get off when all the evidence is presented again.

Well that's an interesting take on it. Did you see the running away guy try and use a taser, genius?

If you OPENED YOUR EYES the officer told the truth the guy grabbed his TAZER (but dropped it) and the turned and ran the officer presumed he had the Tazer and the VIDEO CLEARLY SHOWS THAT THE GUY GRABBED IT OUT OF ITS HOLSTER.

Another Black guy trying to take an officers firearm sorry at that point all bets are off and he has the right to shoot

None of us know what it is like to be in that position so I for one am not going to try and make a split second decision but the MOMENT this guy grabbed at the officers weapon they have the right to fire

But of course Left liberal retards will only want to ignore the fact that led up to the shooting and want to hang the shooter even if he was justified by the Grand Jusry

Hands up Dont shoot yeah right that turned out to be BS didnt it NEVER HAPPENED.

Lets see where this goes

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ARE YOU ALL <deleted> BLIND

Watch the Video

YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE THE GUY GRAB AND DROP THE POLICE OFFICERS TAZER its right at the start of the video and you can see the Tazer fall to the ground THAT GIVES the officer the right to shoot since he may not of seen the tazer fall and may of thought the guy still had it.

He knew where it was when he jogged straight over to pick it up and planted it next to the guy he'd just shot.

Yes, a kind of throwdown.

It's not strictly a throwdown, but it's the same police idea to try to cover up their illegal or unjustified act(s) whether deliberate or accidental.

In a court of law it's also an implication if not an admission of guilt. If provable, it's also an obstruction of justice, which appears strongly the homicide cop and his partner were engaging in with their make-believe story until the video was circulated.

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Watch the Video

YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE THE GUY GRAB AND DROP THE POLICE OFFICERS TAZER its right at the start of the video and you can see the Tazer fall to the ground THAT GIVES the officer the right to shoot since he may not of seen the tazer fall and may of thought the guy still had it.

This cop will be the scape goat and will be sacraficed to appease the blacks and left wing nutters

I am betting this guy may just get off when all the evidence is presented again.

Well that's an interesting take on it. Did you see the running away guy try and use a taser, genius?

If you OPENED YOUR EYES the officer told the truth the guy grabbed his TAZER (but dropped it) and the turned and ran the officer presumed he had the Tazer and the VIDEO CLEARLY SHOWS THAT THE GUY GRABBED IT OUT OF ITS HOLSTER.

Another Black guy trying to take an officers firearm sorry at that point all bets are off and he has the right to shoot

None of us know what it is like to be in that position so I for one am not going to try and make a split second decision but the MOMENT this guy grabbed at the officers weapon they have the right to fire

But of course Left liberal retards will only want to ignore the fact that led up to the shooting and want to hang the shooter even if he was justified by the Grand Jusry

Hands up Dont shoot yeah right that turned out to be BS didnt it NEVER HAPPENED.

Lets see where this goes

I didn't know that.....

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If the officer planeter the Tazer after the fact that was a dumb move I have yet to see that but if he did that then that will be his downfall if he had not done that the fact that it as clear to see the perp grabbed it out of its holster would of been enough to pissibly clear him of his actions however if he did indeed plant it after the fact then there is no excuse BUT I HAVE YET TO SEE THAT SO ITS ONLY HERESAY at this time.

Just watched the whole unedited video and SAW NO SUCH THING of him planting the tazer that was BS posted

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If the officer planeter the Tazer after the fact that was a dumb move I have yet to see that but if he did that then that will be his downfall if he had not done that the fact that it as clear to see the perp grabbed it out of its holster would of been enough to pissibly clear him of his actions however if he did indeed plant it after the fact then there is no excuse BUT I HAVE YET TO SEE THAT SO ITS ONLY HERESAY at this time.

Just watched the whole unedited video and SAW NO SUCH THING of him planting the tazer that was BS posted

It's very clear in the video. From 1.02-1.40 here:

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