We’ll never know why Walter Scott decided to run from former South Carolina police officer Michael Slager. Maybe his delinquent child support payments had something to do with it. Or maybe he’s like many black men in America these days …..scared to fucking death when they’re involved in an encounter with the police.
None of that matters though. Running, resisting, or being argumentative with law enforcement SHOULD NOT BE A DEATH SENTENCE!
I REPEAT …SHOULD NOT BE A DEATH SENTENCE!!
I suppose we just expected too much. I mean there was the eye witness video of Slager firing eight shots at Scott’s back, hitting him five times.
And then there was the shabby coverup and false narrative about the taser we saw him (Slager) dropping beside the body of the decedent.
One would think 12 people would have had no problem unanimously finding this scum guilty of cold blooded murder!
This is one of the few cases that has advocates for Black, White, and Blue Lives agreeing on one thing – Slager’s guilt. Yet we’re where we’ve been so many times before in America….
…. A Hung Jury….
Nothing new when you look at the long, painful history of injustices that have been intricately woven into the black experience in America since the founding of our republic.
Roy Bryant and J.W. Milan were just two who came to mind who enjoyed good ol fashioned southern justice after being found NOT GUILTY of murdering Emmett Till.
The jury took just an hour and seven minutes to return the not guilty verdict. One juror said it wouldn’t have taken that long, but they stopped to take a soda pop break to “make it look good.”
My God….
Is this the country I was born in…a citizen of a country that devalues the lives of people of color in every way they possibly can.
The evidence on Slager was solid and damning, certain to yield a conviction. The only thing IMO any more incriminating would have been a freaking recorded confession.
Yet…he’s still free.
Is it the system ….the people…..the skin color of the victim….
Why does justice keep eluding us.
Nubian Ayaba 