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“It’s pumping,” Slager responded, laughing.
Bet he’s not laughing now.
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Is there gonna be an “adrenaline” defense? [quote=“TeenLaQueefa, post:2, topic:19083”]
Bet he’s not laughing now.
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I agree.
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Cool rush, huh?.. Earned your bones, bro, no sweat, get a few days off. Nah, nobody will know… Just another day.
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My problem is not just with the shooting, but with the cool, calm and collected way he acted after the shooting. It seems to me he was following a script. I want to know if he received coverup training?
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The New York Times has an odd item. Slager told neighbors he was waiting on a government job in the West and then moved. The neighbors assumed he’d moved to the job but he’d actually just moved 10 miles away and told no one.
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If I had just murdered somebody, my adrenalin would be pumping too. The pumping of adrenalin followed the murder. It didn’t precede it, hence his adrenalin it is not a reason to reduce the charge to manslaughter, although no doubt his attorney will attempt to use this ruse.
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There is an officer in need of more training. When you shoot one of them, you are suppose to be the victim and act accordingly. Crying, down on your knees, excessive CPR, screaming for help and by all means, keep repeating that you are shocked you had to shoot him.
Other than that, the chief and judge will fix the rest for ya and teach you how to handle adrenaline for the next time you are so blatenly attacked.
Maybe the other officers can learn from it, but I think this officer just needs more firing.
“the recording” I don’t see how this recording was made and how it happened to surface. weird.
He’s gone from a homebody nobody to a pariah. The PD isn’t paying his legal defense and has distanced itself from him.
If it wasn’t pumping, then he really would be a killing machine. This just shows that he’s a human being. Has nothing to do with guilt or innocence.
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It’s good to humanize Slager the way the article does. I believe he was a nice kid, but none of that is here or there. Except, perhaps, for this: He didn’t get the right training or wasn’t screened properly.
People who are shy and, perhaps, feel less or less than powerful than others–socially inadept–are the worst ones to hand a gun. The gun suddenly gives them the power they feel they lack as people and they don’t know how to use it.
Slager experienced the tussle and the running away as a personal affront to his own–what’s the word?–sense of self worth. “You can’t run away from me and not show me the respect an officer is due.” So he pulled out the equalizer to bring things even. My theory, of course.
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What tussle?
How is Slager laughing about the rush he got from shooting an unarmed black man in the back “humanizing?” From what I can see his actions as described in this article just make him seem even more remorseless about the shooting.
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I thought exactly the same thing. He will try to equate his situation with that of the officer who pulled his gun by mistake instead of a taser. That officer was at least human enough to be upset by the fact that he had killed a man.
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What was pumping through Mr. Slager after the shooting is irrelevant. What’s relevant is that nothing was pumping through Mr. Scott at that time.
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I guess the cops take care of their own…except when they don’t. They hired this guy, he was the department’s responsibility. The fact that they are distancing themselves from someone who clearly was continuing the culture of said department (as is evidence by the fact the other police officer at the scene in the video clearly witnessed the dumping of the taser, the period of departmental defense of the events without bothering to look into any details and before the actual scene was detailed with video, and the conversation this article refers to in which the murderer is told you won’t be asked about the event for at least a couple days presumably while a coverstory is manufactured)…that’s hogwash. The department sees the writing on the wall, and instead of business as usual, they are going to sacrifice one of their own. That’s what this is, plain and simple.
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He sounds like a murderous monster to me. Not the normal reaction of a human being after killing another human being. Disturbing!
The PD is jettisoning Slager but they will continue to provide health coverage for the 8-months plus wife, and this has lead to a discussion in other forums of why not other victims in this tragedy. There are a lot of people who deserve to be helped financially for at least a temporary period, and she is one of them. Having a baby without a partner is tough enough without bearing the burden of being the wife of a community pariah.