South Carolina Cop Actually Charged in Unprovoked Shooting

Is the whole militarized police thing provoking pushback?

Atlanta — Amid a number of US inquiries into worrisome police behavior, some critics are asking a difficult question: Have American police officers' trigger fingers gotten too itchy?

South Carolina authorities on Wednesday released a dashcam video showing former Highway Patrol officer Sean Groubert asking motorist Levar Jones, who is black, to get his license and then shooting him in the hip as he reaches into his car for the license. 

"Sir, why was I shot?" Mr. Jones, who is recovering from the shooting, can be heard saying.

Comments

[John Galt]

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

I'm surprised that Jones wasn't charged with assault for spattering blood on the brave officer's uniform.

[Erasmus vs. Luther]

Kudos for using the word spattering, not splattering(Dexter fan, aside from the last handful of episodes. Dexter: the introverted lumberjack. WTF?).

[Jimbo]

That's because he has more than a smlattering knowledge of the English language.

[Don'tTreadOnMe]

Did he forget to say, "Sir, yes Sir" before he reached for his license? Dumbass deserved it.

[OneOut]

But he wasn't wearing a seat belt.

He deserved what he got by a brave and heroic defender of the public.

/Dunphy Derp

[Cga1560]

This looked like a panicked and unprofessional cop, not one committing deliberate assault. Instead of trying to lock him up for 20 years, lets do away with partial immunity, and let theses guys be held civilly responsible.

[Anon E. Mouse]

I've got a better idea: Let's start holding the offending officer's entire chain of command responsible when one of them fucks up, just like the military does. You panic-fire and shoot an unarmed citizen, you get charged the same as any other civilian would, your training officer gets demoted or fired for not providing sufficient oversight and training, and your chief (CO) looses his command. Extraordinary power requires extraordinary accountability.

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[Longtail]

You left me hanging. What was the answer to "Sir, why did you shoot me?"

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