Maybe not formal training. But you can bet your tail that this was something he had prepared for for a long time.
Not Walter Scottâs.
This murderous cop was an authority figure whose authority was being disregarded by Walter Scott. Itâs been agreed at least in forums here that cops are authoritarians at heart and so are drawn to police work. They will never be the nice guys who wanted to do good for their communities but wanted to lord it over their communities instead.
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And, thus the coaching by his attorney begins. Meanwhile the dead Black man cannot speak for himself.
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I suspect that Mr. Slager will have lots of time and opportunity for more adrenaline pumping (both good and bad) during his stint in jail.
That wasnât an officer. It was a 78 year old wannabe cop/big time donor that was playing dress up. He had absolutely no business being issued a gun or a taser, let alone being in a drive along to a gun buying sting. That had disaster written all over it, and sadly, it came true.
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Thanks for the correction - I just read the latest info on that particular shooting and realize that what I heard yesterday was the âsanitizedâ version.
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âYeah, man. I havenât felt an adrenaline rush like that since we hunted them dear last week.â
Iâm going to guess this is SOP for some police officers out there. Might be a minority of them, but sweep enough sh!t under the rug, and it becomes second nature.
Iâm not referring to this article, but to the one Little Girl Blue posted.
Perhaps, but whatâs âbeen agreed in forumsâ isnât necessarily the case in general or in particular.
Adults understand adrenaline. Anyone who has been a jock or a soldier understands adrenaline.
But if youâre a cop or a surgeon or an ER physician or firefighter you learn to suppress or re-direct that energy.
These events with cops mean either no training for such events or poor training or informal, cover-up training by colleagues.
Donât know if it stills goes on, but the the âthrowaway gunâ used to be an item in NYC police shootings. A cop would carry an untraceable gun, then put it in the hand of some dumb bastard he just killed.
âHe had a gunâ.
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Something seems very odd here, and I suspect we are going to find out that there was a dark side to this seemingly quiet man. His initial lawyer dropped him after the video surfaced, and I presumed then, and still do, that it was because Slager had lied to him. Thatâs certainly understandable, but itâs not something you see all that often. More remarkable to me is that both the police department and the police union are distancing themselves from him. Thatâs something you never see except in particularly egregious cases, even when there is a video. So what is different here? There has to be another shoe waiting to drop.
Or, more than that, being the wife of someone youâve just discovered has a cold-blooded murderous side, as you are eight months pregnant with their child. What a sh*tty situation.
We generalize and oversimplify in what we write here, itâs all mostly personal opinions and not researched data. But the pattern of behavior in cops in both Northern cities and Southern cities is despicable, so there might be something about the culture of policing that leads to murderous behavior.
Sorry â Adrenaline didnât seem to affect him so much: he remembered to lie on the radio about Mr. Scott taking his taser â and fixed the crime scene so that the evidence matched his lie. And he did it very calm and methodically â as though it was part of his training.
And then he furthered that lie by making it part of the official record.
I read that the copsâ voices were picked up by the microphone in Slagerâs cop car that continued to record for the duration of the chase, shooting and, apparently, the aftermath.