A person who is upright and drawing his gun was not tased.Are you sure the officer was not tased? We have seen media stories change so much in this case like all others they report on. At first he was shot 8 times in the back. Then the number fell to 5 and was recently reported as 4. Eight sounds better so that is the number the media chose to report. They said there was no physical fight. Then they had to change that to maybe there was to there actually was. If he tased the officer it is a felony and he was fleeing. I do not know the laws of South Carolina so perhaps it was a legal action on the part of the officer. In most states the above action would not be legal if that is the way it occurred. Hopefully the court will allow the truth to be brought out and the jury will not be influenced by the falsehoods of the media reportings. Justice is sometimes difficult to obtain.No he did not tase him. The taser fell to the ground when the perp was trying to take it from him.It doesn't...but racists will find a way to justify it. My guess, they will next accuse the victim of raping a white woman.
That's what I thought. The cop was probably pissed off the guy tased him and killed him. The cop can't say he was afraid for his life because the guy was running away. And the cop can't use the fleeing felon law because there's nothing to suggest the guy was a threat to anybody.