SC - Walter Scott, 50, fatally shot by North Charleston PD officer, 4 April 2015 - #1

[Zuri]

Disgusting! This ruins his cred IMO. I initially liked Santana and was surprised that he stated "they were on the floor scuffling" and he didn't know anymore initially. I felt he was unbiased. Now I feel that he is simply a tool. A crowd funding site? Again, disgusting!

I so agree with you. When I read he set up a crowd funding site, I was so disappointed. Can you imagine the field day the DT will have if the PT calls him as a witness? Ugh. I guess some really like to milk their 15 minutes of fame. There are two families here whose lives have been changed forever and a man is dead. It just seems greedy or something to me. IMO

 

[Woodland]

Santana will likely want an attorney due to his involvement. That cost could get a little steep for a barber. Jmo.

 

[Canaille]

Santana will likely want an attorney due to his involvement. That cost could get a little steep for a barber. Jmo.

Just curious as to why an innocent bystander would need an attorney.

 

[Woodland]

I would retain one for a matter involving testifying. The defense in this case will need to rip Sanata limb from limb and might want to bring up his prior life history as well. He needs representation imo.

 

[Tawny]

Slager never once said he was shot with his own taser, and why wouldn't he have said that over dispatch? All he said was "he grabbed my taser." He didn't even say he TOOK it, he DEFINITELY didn't say he USED IT and I'm blown away by all of the ways people are just making up what "could have happened" when nothing anywhere says there's any indication any of it happened. Unless you can provide MSM links that say Scott was shot during the altercation on the ground and that Slager was ever hit with his own taser, stop saying it "could have happened". It's like you just want to find the "reason" Slager shot Scott 8 times. Good luck, there is none.

 

[Elley Mae]

Slager never once said he was shot with his own taser, and why wouldn't he have said that over dispatch? All he said was "he grabbed my taser." He didn't even say he TOOK it, he DEFINITELY didn't say he USED IT and I'm blown away by all of the ways people are just making up what "could have happened" when nothing anywhere says there's any indication any of it happened. Unless you can provide MSM links that say Scott was shot during the altercation on the ground and that Slager was ever hit with his own taser, stop saying it "could have happened". It's like you just want to find the "reason" Slager shot Scott 8 times. Good luck, there is none.

Exactly stick to the facts, like 8 shoots fired 5 shoots struck scott, 3 in the back and one in the buttocks and one in the ear, with 3 missed shoots.

here.

Mr. Stewart said the coroner had told him that Mr. Scott was struck five times — three times in the back, once in the upper buttocks and once in the ear — with at least one bullet entering his heart.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/u...ged-with-murder-in-black-mans-death.html?_r=1

 

[Tawny]

Right. Shot AT Scott 8 times. My bad. Seems he had every intention of hitting him 8 times. No regard to where his bullets will go when he misses though.

 

[franker]

I don't know that it was his license that he handed him. It took him forever to produce what ever it was that he handed him. And as the officer was saying to him did you buy it or are you buying it monday, there was alot of double talk with walter so who knows what he handed him. jmo idk btw it appeared to me that he turned into the auto store because he had lights in his rearview not to get a new light for the car like his brother has insinuated. jmo idk

I don't like your chances of finding a tail light lens for a 1991 Mercedes at an Advance Auto Parts store.

 

[Tawny]

I don't like your chances of finding a tail light lens for a 1991 Mercedes at an Advance Auto Parts store.

*shrug* I wouldn't have known they don't carry it. ETA: Awful big coincidence that he pulled into that lot though, JMO

 

[Elley Mae]

Right. Shot AT Scott 8 times. My bad. Seems he had every intention of hitting him 8 times. No regard to where his bullets will go when he misses though.

I have a feeling the gun held more rounds, if I read correctly Walter fell on the eighth shot. I would think that he shot until he fell, which seems to be what happened. jmo idk

 

[Elley Mae]

I don't like your chances of finding a tail light lens for a 1991 Mercedes at an Advance Auto Parts store.

I know, I just got new headlights for a 1999 ford and as the parts guy was looking for them he said it's a chance they may not be available, but they were and I now have bright new headlights, $525.00 later.

 

[MzOpinion8d]

BBM. It certainly is a clear explanation. Now please explain why YOU are in a position to determine what the officer "should have known." Thanks.

Because I have a brain?

Are you saying the officer had no way of knowing how his equipment functioned?

 

[Sonya610]

Right. Shot AT Scott 8 times. My bad. Seems he had every intention of hitting him 8 times. No regard to where his bullets will go when he misses though.

Can you provide an MSM link stating he put OTHERS in danger by not assessing the area behind his target?

IMO Slager was a pretty good shot. Five out of eight at that distance with a moving target is pretty impressive.

 

[MzOpinion8d]

bbm, I am dumb founded by this, are you saying that it's ok to take items from a policeman's body, taser/cuffs and such and that is NOT a threat to the officer?

I am saying:

No, it is NOT ok for someone to do this and that is why the shooting would have been justified DURING that altercation.

And specifically based on the fact that the electrodes were embedded in Scott's body, meaning he would have had to somehow remove them and place them in the officer's body to cause harm to the officer, the officer should have known that the TASER was not a threat to him at that time. The TASER is what he implies led to the shooting as the suspect ran. The TASER was not a threat.

 

[Deleted member 39678]

I don't know much about Tasers. Do the ones that LE use have a secondary way of zapping someone? I'm wondering if they have a contact type of discharge besides the dart on wires projectiles.

 

[jjenny]

I don't know much about Tasers. Do the ones that LE use have a secondary way of zapping someone? I'm wondering if they have a contact type of discharge besides the dart on wires projectiles.

Doesn't appear Scott had a taser itself. What appears to be a taser can be seen in the video dropped next to the Scott's body.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael...shooting-video-deeply-troubling-says-analyst/

 

[Bayou Mistress]

I don't know much about tasers either. But I do know that when my dog hit an electric fence, he yelped, dropped, rolled, and then ran away from the source. Is it unreasonable to assume that a tasered man might act on impulse and escape the source of his pain and not even be thinking that a police officer is the one who inflicted it?

 

[Deleted member 39678]

Doesn't appear Scott had a taser itself. What appears to be a taser can be seen in the video dropped next to the Scott's body.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael...shooting-video-deeply-troubling-says-analyst/

What do you mean that Scott doesn't appear to have the Taser itself? After he was shot? I agree with that.

 

[jjenny]

I don't know much about tasers either. But I do know that when my dog hit an electric fence, he yelped, dropped, rolled, and then ran away from the source. Is it unreasonable to assume that a tasered man might act on impulse and escape the source of his pain and not even be thinking that a police officer is the one who inflicted it?

Scott was running away even before he got tasered. His intentions clearly appear to be to run away.

 

[MzOpinion8d]

I don't know much about Tasers. Do the ones that LE use have a secondary way of zapping someone? I'm wondering if they have a contact type of discharge besides the dart on wires projectiles.

I also don't know a lot about them, but I know enough to know there are several types and they have different methods of activation. Some can deliver only one shock and others more than one shock.

What I do know is that if the probes were embedded in Scott, any activation of the taser was only going to zap Scott. He may have been going for the taser to get the officer to stop using it. If that is the case the taser must not have been very strong because usually they make a person immobile.