I’m not a religious man, but I’m said a prayer today for Michael Slager. I hope you will, too. Slager is one of the growing number of America’s political prisoners. He has been rotting away in solitary confinement, untried but without bail, since April 7—for being a cop while white in Obama’s America.
On April 4, Officer Michael Slager had the misfortune of crossing paths with Walter Scott, a small-time criminal and ne’er-do-well,who had the good fortune of having been born black.
Officer Slager pulled over Scott for driving with a broken tail light, in a car that may have been stolen. (Scott had no title for the car, his explanation was a mass of contradictions, and the authorities have had no interest in determining the truth.)
While the officer checked in his squad car to see if any open warrants were out on Scott, the latter, who knew he was a wanted man (for over $18,000 in unpaid child support), and who had been in jail at least a dozen times, bolted.
Officer Slager caught up with Scott, and had him in custody, but Scott repeatedly assaulted the officer, and ran away a total of at least three times. Before the last time Scott ran, according to aframe-by-frame analysis by The Last Refuge, Scott apparently had shot Officer Slager with the officer’s own Taser, which Scott had repeatedly fought for.
That Officer Michael Slager shot Walter Scott dead is not in dispute. Officer Slager never denied having killed Scott. However, my understanding of the law is that the shooting was clean, because Scott was escaping custody. ...
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