Is there really anything too gauche for the trophy hunter set?
FBI Launches Civil Rights Probe In Police Shooting Of North Carolina Black Man | Talking Points Memo
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What’s the worst a cop could be penalized for “creating a public disturbance” as that’s likely what the N Carolina authorities would try for. And yes I am being unreasonable.
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There’s more than one body camera that was rolling as well.
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He mustard the courage to “go there…”
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I have a feeling a LOT of people are going to be paying for this one. Shit gonna burn.
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Question is, has the EDNC DA seen the whole video(s).
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Whoa - when you think so, then it must be so. hahahahahahahahahaha Seriously and I agree.
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You sure? White cops in NC raiding a black guy’s place? We’re lucky that even one recorded anything, didn’t fall off, batteries weren’t dead, view was obscured, no audio…
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And they only showed the recording from ONE deputy, when there were at least TEN there…We got more info from the lawyer talking at the press conference.
Supposedly North Carolina needs a court order to release body cam recordings. They’ve had plenty of time to file a motion to get the recordings released, but sounds like to Sheriff’s Office isn’t interested.
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As I understand it somewhere between 7 and 10 officers were involved. Not all fired their guns but likely most did. I would not at all be surprised that 9 of 10 cameras failed or were off. “Waddya gonna do? Fire me?”
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I’ve seen a set of 4 footstools made from the four legs of an elephant. It was in the great room, which was the trophy room.
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O they’re interested alright - very interested in keeping anyone from seeing what happened.
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For the serious republican I take it.
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Hearing for that is Wednesday (tomorrow) morning. Interesting that the feds jumped in a day before that.
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Bill Barr isn’t running things anymore.
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Yet they still redact.
Yes, that was a law enacted about five years ago.
As bad as it is, and it is pretty bad, note two things: (1) both Republicans and Democrats voted for it; and (2) it’s better than the status quo ante, when in some parts of the state there was no process whatsoever for anyone to obtain those recordings.
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Seven of ten officers firing automatic AR’s may seem to some to be a tad bit excessive to some (except those who admire their prowess at shooting an elephant). Or praps they don’t wanna taint the potential jury pool.
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Because they can’t take the ivory home with them.
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Yep. As I understand it (correct me if I’m wrong here because the info coming out has seemed sporadic), they had actually blocked the driveway with a vehicle too. I am curious if a cop was still in it or standing behind it and using it as cover…which would explain that trajectory of a bullet entering the back of his skull…but it seems to me that in either situation, cop in the car or behind it, “he was trying to back out of the driveway!” becomes quite a bit less of an “imminent death or sever bodily harm” situation with the car blocking the driveway. It all makes me tempted to believe this was an incident in which the cops arrived and thought they’d been presented with a freeby, him being in the car etc.
And again: as I understand it, this was a SEARCH warrant, not an arrest warrant, so WTF did they care if he left other than they were pissed they’d lose their ability to claim an arrest that day? Seems the fucking brain damage is “I have probable cause to arrest, but he’s fleeing and might be armed (or the car is a deadly weapon! oh no!), so I have a right to use deadly force to stop him fleeing.” Nope. That shit should fail miserably in any court actually applying the law.
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