I’m a cop. If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me.

Screw Dunkin Donuts, start a TV show (and give it to networks for free) -- but sell ads yourself, like Byron Allen.

http://bit.ly/Zfawrk

 

The video is something to see

http://www.thestate.com/2014/09/24/3702695_sc-trooper-charged-with-felony.html?sp=/99/132/&rh=1

But basically, state trooper in South Carolina is leaving a parking lot and turns around to pull someone over. Guy is getting out of his car and cop says he needs to see his ID. Guy goes back to the car to get his wallet and when he comes out of the car, the cop shoots several shots and his guy once. At a gas station.

As the guy is on the ground, he asks why he was pulled over. Seat belt violation, says the trooper.

Trooper has been fired and was arrested for the shooting. Is looking at 20 years in prison.

But, really, watch the video. it is amazeballs.

 

Insane. And if not for the dashboard cam, the officer says "he made a sudden move and I thought he was going for a gun" and the officer gets away. He's decorated, don't you know.

 

Bunk speaks:

"The most dangerous moment I ever have in my life is when a police officer pulls me over."

http://bossip.com/1036965/race-matters-wendell-pierce-goes-off-during-real-time-with-bill-maher-says-the-most-dangerous-moment-in-my-life-is-when-the-police-officer-pulls-me-over/

And also: We must have missed this one from the folks who keep us up on what's being passed off as fact on conservative news sites, but a new video from Ferguson surfaced. Two contractors who were working in the area film the aftermath, with one saying "he had his fucking hands in the air!"

http://rt.com/usa/187400-ferguson-witnesses-shooting-reaction/

 

Yeah, that SC video is something else. I sort of understand the cop being nervous when the guy goes back into the car. But not nervous enough to shoot 6 times. Glad the guy is going to be OK. The video is surreal.

 

Ridiculous beyond belief. It's like the cop just decided he wanted to shoot somebody and that poor bastard happened to be the first one he came across.
As bad as the shooting itself is, the cop's reckless actions toward the general public might be worse. One of the cardinal rules of firearms safety is to watch your background. A police officer, especially, should be aware of it before he even pulls his weapon, let alone discharges it.
There's three cars, a busy road, an open business with a public door (which he was shooting TOWARD), and possibly some occupied houses or businesses in his line of fire. It's kind of amazing Mr. Jones was the only one who ended up wearing a bullet. In addition to whatever charges Groubert is facing for shooting the driver, he ought to be brought up on weapons and reckless endangerment charges.

 

Just seemed to me that for whatever reason he was scared shitless. Don't really see any reason for him to be, but yes, any trained police officer should be a lot more accurate than that.

 

Just wait till you find out that the victim had a felony arrest sometime in the last 15 years, that'll prove he deserved it.

 

The U.S. Justice Department scolded the Ferguson, Missouri, police chief Friday for letting law enforcement officers obscure their names on their badges and wear bracelets honoring Darren Wilson, the Ferguson cop who shot and killed teenager Michael Brown.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting/u-s-tells-ferguson-police-ban-i-am-darren-wilson-n212956

 

And also:

Today, a lawyer trying to help bail some of the protesters out was met with silence, seemingly everywhere. St. Louis University Law Professor Sue McGraugh said she had to call three different places to find out who had been arrested, what charges they were being held on, and what the bail amount was.

Ferguson police told her she needed to talk to St. Ann, which is providing holding cells for Ferguson while its station is under construction. St Ann said to talk to Ferguson. Ferguson then told her to call the state highway patrol, she said, who in turn told her to talk to Ferguson. Reporters who were trying to track down the same information were passed around the same loop. One Ferguson dispatcher told a reporter, "We don't have any information. Have a good day."

Finally, McGraugh drove down to the Ferguson police station where she learned seven protesters had been arrested on "failure to obey" charges and held on $1,000 cash bail. Two had already been released because of medical conditions.

 

I think that's an excellent revise.

 

If you want to understand how the S.C. situation could have happened, consider this: Officers are trained that the first three seconds of a traffic stop is the time when the officers' lives are most at risk. The wanted felon who has already made up his mind that he's not going back to jail will take advantage of that momentary knowledge gap. Officers are also trained that a driver who exits his vehicle before being asked to is more likely to be dangerous than the driver who waits.

None of that is meant to justify the trooper's response here. I agree with the decision to charge him, and am somewhat surprised that the SCHP moved as quickly as they did. I doubt that would've happened in the community I work in, and I also doubt the video ever would have seen the light of day.

But if you consider that you have a driver out of his vehicle at the start of the stop - and the driver did nothing wrong because he had hopped out before the trooper initiated the stop - and that in the first three seconds of the encounter the guy reaches back into his car to grab something - again not doing anything wrong because he was trying to comply with the officer's request - you might begin to understand how the officer's adrenaline could be elevated and a very poor, criminally reckless decision gets made.