This shooting is Exhibit fricking "A" for what so many have been saying for so long. And there it is in plain view for everyone to see. The video is rather surreal as it shows a man more or less running, but a slow run...more like jogging, away and the cop appearing to pretty calmly take his pistol out and fairly methodically gun him down in the back, and then calmly plant a Taser near his body.
And it is complete contrast to what was initially reported by the police when they didn't realize there was a video.
This kind of thing is powerful. This video may eventually have an effect all out of proportion to what we think. It wasn't even a case where the cop was over excited or an obvious idiot. He just shot the dude in the back.
So, absent this video, does anyone really think that this cop wouldn't have one hundred percent gotten away with this?
Joe Bob, you nailed it.
If an actual investigation took place the ballistics report would show that the man was shot 8 times in the back a long range, also the shell casings vs. where the body ended up, and then the cop moving the taser closer to him would have contradicted his story. He didn't have time to move the casings, his story would have been more believable had he left the taser where it laid and said that the guy ran to that location and died, but then blood evidence would have contradicted that.
I don't see how this guy would have gotten away with this murder even if there was no video, barring a corrupt investigation.
