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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXO3Ix_GIyI?feature=player_detailpage"
A white police officer in North Charleston, S.C., was charged with murder on Tuesday after a video surfaced showing him shooting in the back and killing an apparently unarmed black man while the man ran away.
The officer, Michael T. Slager, 33, said he had feared for his life because the man had taken his stun gun in a scuffle after a traffic stop on Saturday. A video, however, shows the officer firing eight times as the man, Walter L. Scott, 50, fled. The North Charleston mayor announced the state charges at a news conference Tuesday evening.
The shooting came on the heels of high-profile instances of police officers?? using lethal force in New York, Cleveland, Ferguson, Mo., and elsewhere around the country. The deaths have set off a national debate over whether the police are too quick to use force, particularly in cases involving black men.
A White House task force has recommended a host of changes to the nation??s police policies, and President Obama sent Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to cities around the country to try to improve police relations with minority neighborhoods.
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And people got the nerve to wonder why we (black people) feel like the Ferguson decision was complete bullshit as well.
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Dec 27, 2013Comments: 15 · Posts: 2575 · Topics: 9
One case (this one), the facts are obviously on the side of the victim.
In Ferguson, the facts were on the side of Darren Wilson.
Pretty simple.
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Jul 23, 2013Comments: 546 · Posts: 6870 · Topics: 474
I already see. No one can play victim for long. in this case odds will fall in the fallen's favor and this cop with see time
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May 01, 2010Comments: 0 · Posts: 2977 · Topics: 102
facts: white supremacy is real and ever since the ending of slavery they have done whatever they could to break the black man
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its a long video, but somebody will watch it
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Oct 25, 2010Comments: 2 · Posts: 8822 · Topics: 132
That video is horrible. Devastating to watch smdh. I feel so bad that he lost his life, and horrible for his family.
Officers are so quick to lie about what happened too. Thank GOD this was on video.
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Aug 09, 2011Comments: 265 · Posts: 18811 · Topics: 125
Damn. The guy shooting that video certainly has balls of steel. He barely flinched during the shots.
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Oct 02, 2012Comments: 348 · Posts: 5327 · Topics: 266
good thing for cellphone cameras
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Jul 23, 2013Comments: 546 · Posts: 6870 · Topics: 474
Don. I'm really beginning to think you are very short sighted. And can only see things as black and white.
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Jul 23, 2013Comments: 546 · Posts: 6870 · Topics: 474
Also Damen. What's the profile pic of man?
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Jul 23, 2013Comments: 546 · Posts: 6870 · Topics: 474
Don I think you're trying pin off every black person as someone who acts this way and does this. You're mistaken. So are trying to say every black person is a criminal and those few who actually push to stop violence among ourselves and stop violence like this and are actually not criminals and are well educated are criminals or will turn into one? For once, I could honestly tell a Canadian to grow the hell up and stop pinning stuff like this on every black person. I mean have you met every black person out here in the world and have they tried to rob and beat you down?
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Oct 02, 2012Comments: 348 · Posts: 5327 · Topics: 266
don is trolling obviously, but it seems like he hates black people because some big black guy is fucking his ex or his grandmother's corpse.
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Jan 10, 2015Comments: 1863 · Posts: 16901 · Topics: 108
Nothing is different.
Human and nature's history never changes, and is always repeating itself.
The only difference is the technology of today brings human nature into the open.
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Jan 10, 2015Comments: 1863 · Posts: 16901 · Topics: 108
We have brains smart enough to build technology that can withstand the depths of the ocean, and outer space. We can created synthetic material that replicates the natural thing.
We could be an intelligent society of humans working together to make life better. Instead we use our brains to make life worse.
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Jan 10, 2015Comments: 1863 · Posts: 16901 · Topics: 108
That's a whole other topic lol.
If I know one thing about life it's that it tends to not take other types of life kindly.
If an alien was intelligent to travel here it wouldn't be to greet mean humans with signs of peace. It would be to enslave humanity and take resources.
If we're lucky they won't be the type of aliens traveling around the galaxy blowing up tiny planets like human children smash little bugs.
Fuck, where did I put my aluminum foil hat?
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Jul 23, 2013Comments: 546 · Posts: 6870 · Topics: 474
I was bullied by blacks and whites. but I don't hold ill will for neither. If I did it'd just be redundant. It wouldn't make sense, I'd basically be hating myself.
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Jan 25, 2012Comments: 8 · Posts: 20090 · Topics: 685
I didn't say he WAS guilty. It's just that when someone automatically runs, it makes you look guilty.
Why not stay there and talk to the cop to explain to him your side of the story or eplain that you're innocent? Running, just makes you look bad.
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Jan 25, 2012Comments: 8 · Posts: 20090 · Topics: 685
I want to know what happened BEFORE the video. What was said? What was the interaction? I want ALL the details.
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Jan 25, 2012Comments: 8 · Posts: 20090 · Topics: 685
In other words, I want to know why the cop reacted the way he did. Clearly, he was wrong to shoot him like that, but I want to know the facts of what made him take those actions. I don't think he would just start shooting for no reason.
And don't think I'm trying to justify it. I just want more facts than what the video shows. The whole story.
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Oct 02, 2008Comments: 252 · Posts: 2563 · Topics: 68
He died in handcuffs.That's all i can think of.
Im not saying he's innocent and i know it's protocol to put the handcuffs on, but all i can think of is him dying in handcuffs.
I wonder what was going through his mind as he lay there? I feel for the person recording.
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Oct 02, 2008Comments: 252 · Posts: 2563 · Topics: 68
This is just sad. All of it...
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Jan 25, 2012Comments: 8 · Posts: 20090 · Topics: 685
Oh, I didn't say the cop was right. No, not at all.
I just want all the facts besides a 40 second video. That's all. Can't make an educated opinion without all the facts.
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Jan 25, 2012Comments: 8 · Posts: 20090 · Topics: 685
It happens to white men, too. This white man was shot by a black cop while trying to run. Again, why run?? His friends didn't run and they are still alive.
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Jan 25, 2012Comments: 8 · Posts: 20090 · Topics: 685
Seraph,
Was the cop aware of the the reasons the suspect ran?
Did he know it was for warrants or did he just start running for reasons unknown to the cop?
Perhaps the cop thought he had committed some major crime? Otherwise, why run? I'm sure at that moment the cop didn't know he was running just because he had warrants.
You are correct. There are definitely a lot of factors to consider before you call this flat out premeditated murder.