The North Charleston Murder of Walter Scott By Those Charged to “Protect and Serve"

And so it continues…Walter Scott, not even the latest victim of a police shooting in less than two weeks…hmmm.  Well at least the officer that shot him dead got charged with murder…what remains to be seen is if he gets convicted.  The video is VERY disturbing!  How do you shoot at someone running away from you eight times, hitting them four times in the back, once in the ear, then walk over and handcuff them while they lay face down dying, AND, without performing any life-saving measures which you lied about, and said you did (very similar to what happened to Kajieme Powell who was shot and killed by police in St. Louis, just days after Michael Brown was murdered).  THE KICKER:  It's VERY clear the officer was trying to frame Mr. Scott for grabbing his taser gun after he said that he tried to take it from him.  He picks up the taser from where Mr. Scott began running, and places it conveniently by him lying on the ground next to his dying body.  He doesn't pick it up until other officers arrive on the scene.  Okay, so I'm no cop, but wouldn't that taser be part of the crime scene investigation???  He should have left it lying there with the unarmed black man he just gunned down like a dog in the street.  

Now, new video has surfaced of him laughing when talking to another officer right after he murdered Mr. Scott, while talking about his adrenaline being up.  The blatant disregard of white police officers for black lives is palpable.  

Other police killings of black men have occurred since.  I leave you with these two thoughts…”The next person could be your husband, son, father grandson, nephew cousin or friend.”  And in the words of the great Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Injustice anywhere, is a threat to justice everywhere.