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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCop who killed Walter Scott sentenced to prison ( from AA group Xpost )
Walter ScottThe guy who was running away, in the back in 2015, recall the cell phone video? Small justice.
From ABC News website today
SNIP.....ABC NEWS
Micheal Slager shot and killed Walter Scott on April 4, 2015, while Slager was an officer with the North Charleston Police Department. Witness video that surfaced shortly after the encounter appeared to show the moment Slager fatally shot Scott as he ran away. He was fired from the force after the shooting.
SNIP...U..S. District Judge David Norton made the ruling after saying he would follow sentencing guidelines to send Slager to prison for 19 to 24 years. The former officer could have faced life in prison. Norton ruled that Slager committed second-degree murder and obstruction of justice.
SNIP...Both sides wept in court today when Scott's mother looked the former officer in the eye and told him she forgave him. SNIP
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Cop who killed Walter Scott sentenced to prison ( from AA group Xpost ) (Original Post)
irisblue
Dec 2017
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pintobean
(18,101 posts)1. Not long enough.
irisblue
(33,036 posts)2. You got that right. nt
SCantiGOP
(13,874 posts)3. 20 years
Exact sentence not mentioned in OP.
irisblue
(33,036 posts)5. You're right I missed that in the C&P. Thanks for adding it.
Judi Lynn
(160,649 posts)4. Maybe every day they should have him start running outside, then hit him with a beanbag in the back.
Day in, day out, start running, get hit by a beanbag in the back.
Take a video each day, show it to him at night.
Rinse and repeat.
Of course it's sadistic, but it's a pleasant fantasy about a true monster's fate as I'd like it to be. Every day he will remember he used real bullets when he shot someone else in the back.