Tragic - Victim Appears Unarmed, Trying to Leave - Reinstate Brown vs. Texas and Miranda Laws

This is tragic and reminds me of the other recent cop shooting, I think in Oklahoma, where they claimed the guy the cop gunned down had said he had a bullet with someone's name on it and now I wonder if they planted that statement on the victim after death and whether he really said that. There are so many cop snitches people cannot tell what the hell is going on anymore.

Part of the original ruling of 'Brown vs. Texas' deals with not being required to talk to cops, etc.. The current U.S. system seems to have disregarded that in favor of enforcing the financial laws for the corporation instead of focusing on Common Law crimes which are; loss of life or limb, loss of freedom, assault, etc., and this is inevitably what contributed to the death of officer Jimmie Norman who attempted to enforce a financial warrant (insurance) on a very-afraid black man who couldn't understand why he was targetted for a traffic stop. They need to reinstate 'Brown vs. Texas' immediately everywhere across the U.S..

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Also they need to stop insisting on putting their cop hands on citizens before Mirandizing the suspect. The Miranda warnings should preclude any action(s) against suspects, especially non-combative suspects.

Jailers sometimes threaten to "squirt" inmates, murder them through the jail bars - shoot through the cell bars, under so-called national security emergency laws. They violate any and every right a person has - completely without explanation. Those threats are extortions, coercions, and are unlawful, but not enough people care more about defendants in that situation that what the lying newspapers say. When stuff like this happens you realize, all too late, there wasn't any law system of justice to begin with.

Cops unnecessarily murdering people, shooting citizens in the back, is only an artificial means of attempting to enforce law, especially where no Common Law crime exists as in this case of Mr. Scott. This amounts to a grandiose attempt to control every movement, every payment, every relationship a person has. Police and law enforcement do not have the right to do that.

Rather than murder 'suspects' just take the badge off and let it all go.

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: Post and Currier – by Andrew Knapp

: A white North Charleston police officer was arrested on a
: murder charge and the FBI opened a civil rights
: investigation Tuesday after video surfaced of the lawman
: shooting eight times at a 50-year-old black man as he ran
: away.

: Walter L. Scott died Saturday after Patrolman 1st Class
: Michael T. Slager, 33, shot him in the back.

: The video footage, which The Post and Courier obtained Tuesday
: from a source who asked to remain anonymous, shows the end
: of the confrontation between the two on Saturday after
: Scott ran from a traffic stop. It was the first piece of
: evidence contradicting a statement that Slager released
: earlier this week through his attorney.

: The U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement that FBI
: investigators would work with the State Law Enforcement
: Division, which typically investigates officer-involved
: shootings in South Carolina, and the state’s attorney
: general to investigate any civil rights violations in
: Scott’s death. North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey said
: during a news conference that Slager had made a “bad
: decision.”

: “When you’re wrong, you’re wrong,” Summey said. “If you make a
: bad decision, don’t care if you’re behind the shield or
: just a citizen on the street, you have to live by that
: decision.”

: The three-minute clip starts shaky, but it steadies as Slager
: and Scott appear to be grabbing at each other’s hands.

: Slager has said through his attorney that Scott had wrested
: his Taser from him during a struggle.

: The video appears to show Scott slapping at the officer’s
: hands as several objects fall to the ground. It’s not clear
: what the objects are.

: Scott starts running away. Wires from Slager’s Taser stretch
: from Scott’s clothing to the officer’s hands.

: With Scott more than 10 feet from Slager, the officer draws
: his pistol and fires seven times in rapid succession. After
: a brief pause, the officer fires one last time. Scott’s
: back bows, and he falls face first to the ground near a
: tree.

: After the gunfire, Slager glances at the person taking the
: video, then talks into his radio.

: The cameraman curses, and Slager yells at Scott as sirens
: wail.

: “Put your hands behind your back,” the officer shouts before
: he handcuffs Scott.

: As another lawman runs to Scott’s side.

: Scott died there.

:

: Deputy Coroner Brittney Martin was not immediately available
: Tuesday to confirm how many times Scott was shot.

: At the time, Scott was wanted for arrest on a Family Court
: warrant, Charleston County sheriff’s Maj. Eric Watson said
: Tuesday.

: He had a history of arrests related to contempt of court
: charges for failing to pay child support. The only
: accusation of violence against Scott during his lifetime
: came through an assault and battery charge in 1987.

: The mayor and Police Chief Eddie Driggers expressed sympathies
: to Scott’s family. Driggers grew emotional as he referred
: to his police officers as his children.

: “It’s been a tragic day for many, a tragic day for me,”
: Driggers said. “It is not reflective of this entire police
: department. … One does not throw a blanket across the
: many.”

: Attorney David Aylor, who released a statement on Slager’s
: behalf earlier this week, said Tuesday that he wasn’t
: representing the officer anymore.

: It was not immediately clear whether Slager had hired a new
: lawyer. An attempt to contact Slager before his arrest was
: not successful.

: “This is a terrible tragedy that has impacted our community,”
: his former attorney said.
: National sentiment

: The footage comes amid a discussion about race and policing in
: the U.S. fueled by the fatal shooting in August of Michael
: Brown in Ferguson, Mo.

: Brown, an 18-year-old black man, was unarmed at the time, but
: witnesses said he got into a struggle with Officer Darren
: Wilson, who is white, and was shot during the scuffle.

: Though a grand jury did not find any reason to indict Wilson,
: the shooting ignited protests, some of which turned
: violent. A “black lives matter” movement inspired talk
: about whether police nationwide resort to deadly force too
: quickly against black men.

: During the wave of sentiment that prompted rallies in the
: Charleston area, a state trooper was captured on video
: shooting a man who had reached for his driver’s license
: during a Columbia traffic stop. The trooper was arrested.

: Community leaders in North Charleston stressed the need for
: calm in the aftermath of Scott’s death. The North
: Charleston Police Department has fought accusations in past
: years that aggressive enforcement tactics have unfairly
: targeted poor, black communities.

: Slager, a former Coast Guardsman, served for more than five
: years with the department without being disciplined, his
: attorney said.

: Two people filed complaints against Slager during his time
: with the force, including one man who said the policeman
: shot him with a Taser for no reason in September 2013.
: Internal investigators, though, exonerated the officer of
: any wrongdoing.

: Ed Bryant, the president of the North Charleston chapter of
: the NAACP, was taken aback by a description of the video.
: He had not seen it, he said.

: But he encouraged investigators and prosecutors to pursue
: justice in Scott’s death and urge openness from the
: authorities.

: “If he was running away, how does that pose the need for
: deadly force?” Bryant said. “If he’s leaving, they should
: just pursue him. But shooting him? That’s another story.”

: Pastor Thomas Dixon said that he has not yet seen the video
: but said that “it’s necessary to expect that there may be
: some sort of community reaction.”

: Dixon added that he is concerned about outsiders coming into
: the community to incite violence and rallies. He said the
: outcry of anger so often ends up “tearing down our
: communities,” and emotions should be diverted to something
: more constructive than violence.

: “Good people get caught up with crazy people,” he said. “The
: smart reaction is to just gather and peacefully let your
: voice be heard without any foolishness or craziness.”

: Dwight James, executive director of the S.C. State Conference
: of the NAACP, said leaders were gathering in Columbia on
: Tuesday afternoon to discuss the case.

: James said he was looking forward to all the facts coming out.

: “We’re in touch with law enforcement on multiple levels,” he
: said. “The last feedback I got was that (the officer) was
: not talking.”
: Officer’s account

: Slager said earlier this week in the statement from his
: attorney at the time that his encounter with Scott had
: started Saturday morning as a routine traffic stop.

: His department said he pulled over Scott’s Mercedes-Benz sedan
: near Remount and Craig roads because it had a broken brake
: light. But at some point, Scott ran away with Slager in
: pursuit on foot. Scott’s passenger stayed with the
: Mercedes.

: During the foot chase, Scott confronted Slager, according to
: the lawyer’s statement. Slager got out his Taser to subdue
: the man, but Scott took the device during a struggle, the
: statement said. That’s when the officer fired at Scott
: several times because he “felt threatened,” it added.

: The bystander’s cellphone camera continued to roll as Slager
: stands over Scott and another officer puts on gloves.

: “(Expletive) abuse,” the cameraman says. “(Expletive) abuse.”

: During the 21/2 minutes after the shooting until the end of
: the video, the backup officer lifts up Scott’s shirt to
: check his wounds. But no one immediately starts CPR.

: The video ends with Slager standing next to Scott, who was
: still face down, and checking the dying man’s pulse.

: Summey, the city’s mayor, said the cameraman handed over the
: footage to Scott’s family, who gave it to SLED. City
: officials reviewed it late Tuesday afternoon.

: The mayor said that the case could have ended differently if
: it weren’t for the footage. But Summey said he couldn’t
: speculate about what would have happened.

: “Without the video … it would be difficult for us to ascertain
: exactly what did occur,” Summey said. “We want to thank the
: young person who came forward … because it has helped us
: resolve the issue.”

: North Charleston Pastor Nelson Rivers, who is a vice president
: in the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, called
: the cameraman a “hero.”

: Rivers said he was alarmed by the ease at which the officer
: shot Scott. He called it disturbing for the officer to show
: so little about “what life means.” He called it “sobering
: and evil.”

: “If not for the video, we would still be following the
: narrative from the officer,” Rivers said. “If not for this
: video, the story would be entirely different.”

: Glenn Smith, Melissa Boughton, Christina Elmore, Brenda
: Rindge, Cleve O’Quinn and Schuyler Kropf contributed to
: this report. Reach Andrew Knapp at 937-5414 or
: twitter.com/offlede.

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