A welcome change from the traditional blue wall: After 8 shots in NC -Slager becomes Officer Scorned

[kpete]

After 8 Shots in North Charleston, Michael Slager Becomes an Officer Scorned

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A little more than a week ago he was just a police officer in a working-class city — a homebody whose patrol car was often parked in his driveway — with a wife, expecting their first child together. Now even the police union, which is not paying for his legal defense, has distanced itself from him.

His mother, Karen Sharpe, said her son seemed unaware of just how much attention those eight shots had garnered, and how much he had come to embody law enforcement gone awry.

“I think he’s scared to death,” Ms. Sharpe said in an interview on Friday shortly after visiting her son at the Charleston County jail, where he is being held without bond. “He’s never been in this situation. Nobody ever thinks they’re going to be in this situation.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/13/us/after-8-shots-a-quiet-officer-now-scorned.html?_r=0

[3catwoman3]

1. "I think he's scared to death."

As well he should be.

Poor choice of words, IMO

[jwirr]

2. "Nobody ever thinks they're going to be in this situation." Hopefully this will from now on be

the first thought that comes to mind when a policeman goes for his/her gun. No more deaths of unarmed men of any color for trivial actions that are not even crimes.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Ferguson.....the Selma of this decade.

Ferguson was the tipping point. Rather, the ongoing for months Ferguson protests, and the too slow series of resignations in the Ferguson PD system.

Sadly, the SC shooting was set to be a cover-up too, until the video surfaced.

And now we have another shooting in which a 73 y/o rich white guy who got to play cop killed a black suspect who was on the ground being handcuffed.

[Stuart G]

4. You are correct, SC shooting was "set to cover up too.."

I sure hope that video has changed the situation forever..
..That video is incredible.!!!!!!!!!!

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. The other thing it revealed is the apparent widespread and common practice of ride alongs.

So widespread that there is a term for it.."squirrels" because the ride alongs normally are in the back of the squad car, in the "cage".

Looking forward to see how many lawsuits come of this latest killing.