• Feidin Santana on possession of footage of Walter Scott's death: "I felt that my life, with this inf
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[url]http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/man-who-filmed-cop-killing-fleeing-suspect-says-officer-told-me-to-stop/[/url] [quote=Ars Technica]The 23-year-old South Carolina man who used his phone to videotape a police officer fatally shooting a suspect in the back multiple times said Thursday that another officer who arrived on the scene ordered him to stop recording. Feidin Santana, who was walking to work, said he stumbled upon a scuffle between the officer and suspect, and he began filming. The 3-minute-long footage was ultimately viewed by millions online and on television and paved the way for the arrest and firing of North Charleston Police Officer Michael Slager, who is accused of murdering 50-year-old Walter Scott. ... [B]"I felt that my life, with this information, might be in danger. I thought about erasing the video and just getting out of the community, you know Charleston, and living some place else,"[/B] Santana told NBC. "I knew the cop didn't do the right thing."[/quote]
Wow, the footage of him getting shot like that is just brutal. I like how the officer said he was in fear for his life because he reached for his stun gun too, when it shows the guy literally running away from the officer and getting dropped seconds after.
He needs to get out of there quick before the police kill him in self defense!
This is getting really fucked. You'd think these cops would be on their toes after everything that's happened in the last 6 months.
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;47502494]This is getting really fucked. You'd think these cops would be on their toes after everything that's happened in the last 6 months.[/QUOTE] The police is not a hivemind and the United States is a pretty damn large country. Shit going down in one part of the nation won't stop idiots from doing stupid shit everywhere else.
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;47502633]The police is not a hivemind and the United States is a pretty damn large country. Shit going down in one part of the nation won't stop idiots from doing stupid shit everywhere else.[/QUOTE] I don't wanna be that guy but even tho there's obviously some selective reporting at play and we might be getting fudged data, if you take for instance the ENTIRETY of Europe together, stories like this seem to be quite rare in comparison.
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;47502633]The police is not a hivemind and the United States is a pretty damn large country. Shit going down in one part of the nation won't stop idiots from doing stupid shit everywhere else.[/QUOTE] there is a status quo or culture, for lack of a better word, within the police on a national level in the US. and whether or not certain people want to acknowledge it, the gun issue, institutional racism, the all but criminalization of poverty, the fact that policework in the US has been shown to attract people with sociopathic qualities all contribute to create the video in question
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