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Police dashcam video shows a now-former South Carolina state trooper named Sean Groubert repeatedly shooting a black man named Levar Edward Jones as Jones reaches into his car to produce his license after being pulled over for a seatbelt violation. The video of the Sept. 4 incident was released Wednesday night by law enforcement officials. Groubert has been fired and charged with felony assault and battery. Jones survived the shooting.
especially if you are black, what with all the trigger happy LEO's out there...Keep your hands where they can be seen = not being shot
Keep your hands where they can be seen = not being shot
Keep your hands where they can be seen = not being shot
It's hard to find a way to defend the officer in this case. It was a stop for a seat belt violation that ended in an unarmed man being shot for reaching for his license. The police are usually quit to defend their own, and they fired him, and he was arrested. It seems like a pretty cut and dry case, in my opinion.
That was pretty sad, really feel for the guy. He should have told the cop he was going to reach for his license, but still, the cop seemed really trigger happy.
South Carolina dashcam shooting Sean Groubert Levar Jones incident on video.
Police dashcam video shows a now-former South Carolina state trooper named Sean Groubert repeatedly shooting a black man named Levar Edward Jones as Jones reaches into his car to produce his license after being pulled over for a seatbelt violation. The video of the Sept. 4 incident was released Wednesday night by law enforcement officials. Groubert has been fired and charged with felony assault and battery. Jones survived the shooting.
No! This isn't a thread about race. It's just a Current Event thread that I found disturbing. Please leave your politics out of it.
What he should have done was stand where he was and not move until told to do so by the cop.
South Carolina dashcam shooting Sean Groubert Levar Jones incident on video.
Police dashcam video shows a now-former South Carolina state trooper named Sean Groubert repeatedly shooting a black man named Levar Edward Jones as Jones reaches into his car to produce his license after being pulled over for a seatbelt violation. The video of the Sept. 4 incident was released Wednesday night by law enforcement officials. Groubert has been fired and charged with felony assault and battery. Jones survived the shooting.
No! This isn't a thread about race. It's just a Current Event thread that I found disturbing. Please leave your politics out of it.
It's South Carolina, what do you expect. Look for any excuse to shoot. I guess to some, the driver should have gotten on the ground and begged for forgiveness from the "High sheriff."
What he should have done was stand where he was and not move until told to do so by the cop.
What he should have done was stand where he was and not move until told to do so by the cop.
How many other stops did this trooper effectuate and not shoot someone ?
A fuckton.
What he should have done was stand where he was and not move until told to do so by the cop.
He was told to move. He was told to get his license, and that's exactly what he did.
Maybe Jones was only guilty of being "Aggressively Black"?Groubert's defense attorney said that Groubert was justified in shooting Jones when Jones reached for his license "aggressively."
What he should have done was stand where he was and not move until told to do so by the cop.
How many other stops did this trooper effectuate and not shoot someone ?
A fuckton.
And?
Are you suggesting that the cop was looking to shoot a black man? How many of that "fuckton" were black and why didn't he shoot them? I'm not defending the cop, I don't know all the intricacies of the incident. I have seen the video, it is a topic of discussion here in SC, and I know what I would do were I to be stopped by the cops. And I'm white.
It doesn't matter why he was stopped, traffic stops do lead to bigger issues on a regular basis. The guy made a quick move into his car, that's not the best way to retrieve your info. Cops do get shot, some people don't want to go to jail, it's a sad fact of life.
