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He [Slager] wrote that he observed sweat on Givens’ shirt, which he perceived as evidence that he could have run from Brown’s home
The incident took place just before dawn in September, 2013; the AP article doesn’t specify, but other sources do. In Charleston, SC, the average relative AM humidity in September is about 90%. Under these conditions, sweat on a man’s shirt would not, at least in my mind, constitute any kind of “probable cause.”
The officers’ report describes the Givens brothers as looking “just alike.”
Yeah, because “they all look alike,” [give or take 5 or 6 inches of stature].
And then they deliberately omitted critical testimony from witnesses!
Asked about the 2013 incident on Wednesday, North Charleston police
spokesman Spencer Pryor said the department plans to review the case to
see whether its decision to exonerate Slager was correct. Pryor said he
had no timetable for the review.
Wankers!!
What a total crock. Givens should sue their asses. Oh, looks like another DOJ investigation in the works. When’s Holder’s replacement coming on board? Soon?
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I don’t see the problem: how is this other than SOP for white South Carolina LEOs dealing with black civvies/suspects/perps?
“It could have been prevented,” Givens said of Scott’s death. “If they had just listened to me and investigated what happened that night, this man might be alive today.”
This is true. The worst punishment usually meted out to cops who use excessive force seems to be paid leave, which doesn’t sound like much of a disincentive. A little jail time for brutal cops would make for a safer society.
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Why is it I get the feeling this won’t be the only such incidence in this thug’s career that will now come to light?
I would love to see them throw the book at anyone who helped him falsify that police report. Once they’re in for falsifying the report, they’re in for the assault and battery, too, and conspiracy to commit. There need to be consequences.
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This is what happens, the previous complaints are swept under the rug which emboldens the cop and they proceed to escalate thinking that they are invincible and after getting a taste of successfully harassing their hated enemy.
The cops are not doing themselves any favors by covering up their own transgressions. The law has a purpose, and that is to keep the peace and to detour people from breaking the law because of the punishment. Without the order end of law and order, the system fails. The Police are not exempt and in fact should be held to a higher standard.
The casual brutality was wrong, but the cover-up was worse. The supervisor should be fired. Of course, he or she was probably motivated by fear of the department being sued.