Walter Scott shooting: Victim was jailed in 1987 on assault charge

[shebolleth]

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Source: Mirror UK

Walter Scott was jailed in 1987 on a charge of assault and battery, it has emerged.

Charleston County Sheriff's Department released a report on Friday that says deputies responded to a call about a fight between Scott and another man.

When deputies told the two to break it up, the report states, Scott began shouting obscenities at the other man as well as a deputy before shoving the officer.

Scott suffered a cut and was treated at a local hospital before being transported to the jail.

Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/walter-scott-shooting-victim-jailed-5496987

[Journeyman]

1. Are we then to believe Officer Slager waited 28 years to administer righteous retribution? . . .

Even if true, such a fantasy wouldn't make Slager's actions in 2015 any less criminal -- if anything, they'd be even more so.

[MADem]

2. Ooooh, and he didn't pay his child support, so he deserved to be murdered in cold blood ...?

This shit is smelling a LOT like the Trayvon Martin threads that cropped up after that kid was killed by an out-of-shape psychopath in Florida....

More racialicious "justifications" from The Daily Mirror.

I'm motivated to keep my cell phone fully charged.

[JI7]

3. almost 3 decades ago

And it has nothing to do with what happened

[monmouth4]

4. This post should be ignored for irrelevancy...n/t

[pkdu]

5. Your concern is duly noted. Nt

[bravenak]

6. I was six when that happened.

Why is that relevant? He was shot in the back while running away, not while in the middle of assaulting people. Nice try.

[freshwest]

7. Thanks, you said it for me. n/t

[bravenak]

9. People are being ridiculous.

[Surya Gayatri]

8. Back when he was a strong 'young buck' 27 years ago...?

Well, thank god officer Slager saw that justice was finally done.

How about the photo released with the piece.



Sneering, scary black guy pushed a deputy 27 years ago...Slager was doing society a favor, don't cha know?

[freshwest]

11. Doesn't look like a 'criminal' to me. And we see a lot on the net. n/t

[Surya Gayatri]

12. Just look at that curled lip and snarling pose. You're supposed to be 'skeeered'.

[freshwest]

13. I didn't see that. I saw tired and overworked. Not making a face, IMO. Just sayin'

[Surya Gayatri]

15. Caught in a bad moment, as can happen to anybody.

My point is that just THIS pic was used to accompany the piece.

Like the guy never took a good pic in his life?

[freshwest]

21. I call it that nervous smile make when surrounded by armed racists.

I also know people that smile that way for several reasons, facial paralysis, tics or just restraint. But the media will use anything to make a POC look ridiculous, dumb or criminal.

It's tiresome to me but deadly to POC. This is the kind of thing that can go straight into the subconscious of people who are border line. Myself, I don't see anything wrong with his look.

Perception of images depend on one's life experience or their media experience. Like all the online visuals with Obama making a face at the same time the rightwing calls him dumb or arrogant.

After a while, people don't resist suggestions anymore, they let it in and there it stays. I gotta go, have appointments to make today and haven't slept all night most of the week. won't post for a few hours. See you later.

[Surya Gayatri]

23. ^^^This!^^^

'Perception of images depend on one's life experience or their media experience. Like all the online visuals with Obama making a face at the same time the rightwing calls him dumb or arrogant.'

Very lucid post. Why don't you make an OP out of it?

[glowing]

10. Here we go with making the victim look like a monster..

Typical reaction to taint the story with BS that has nothing to do with the murder.

Likewise, if you don't think the police officers mom popping onto the news and the information about the 8 mo pregnsnt wife is to try and make people sympathetic to the police officer. Too bad he wasn't thinking about them when he murdered Mr. Scott.

BTW, Mr Scott certainly doesn't have the ability to try and make his child support payments now.

[newfie11]

14. Really!!!

Trying hard to exonerate this cop.
Going back 30 years to blame the victim!
Bullshit!

[hobbit709]

16. you got anything you did 28 years ago?

that's relevant to today.

[demmiblue]

17. What are you trying to achieve with this OP?

Hmmm...

[hobbit709]

19. Looking at some of this poster's other OP, I can guess.

[yeoman6987]

29. Maybe the poster is showing us what we are up against

With the police department. The department is pulling everything they have to save their murderer. I guess this was probably a new article and the poster wanted us to see how low this is going since Many DUers get their news on here. Just a thought.

[bvf]

18. Your point being...?

ETA: As a human being, you truly suck.

Alert this. I don't care. Fuck you.

[Tom Ripley]

43. I second your "Fuck you"

The OP can go to hell

[BeyondGeography]

20. "It has emerged."

Ooooooh. Hot stuff.

[alcibiades_mystery]

42. Hot off the presses! Three decades old arrest!

Lawd!

[bvf]

22. I'm ashamed to breathe the same air

as you do.

[onecaliberal]

24. WTF does that have to do with any of this?

Not one thing. Why do you people always need to blame the victim. The dead guy didn't touch the cop. The cop shot the unarmed guy dead anyway.
Assault is NOT punished by death and neither is delinquent child support. Stop the bullshit victim blaming.

[TheCowsCameHome]

25. Thanks, Rush/Sean/Glenn/Shebolleth

We really appreciate this earth shattering news.


We all knew the cop did the right by offing him.

[JustAnotherGen]

26. Please don't hit and run . . .

What did you hope to gain by posting this?

In 1987 I used to sneak out of my house and go to keggers in the woods. Should I be arrested for drunk walking in 2015?

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

27. And so the victim blaming begins. A standard step in whitewashing the police brutalities and murder

in the process of making sure that police do not pay for the crimes they commit is digging up every single thing they can from the past of the victim to paint them as 'evil' and 'violent'.

So let's see, Scott shoved a cop and shouted nasty things at him three decades ago when the cop got in between him and someone he was arguing with back when Scott was 20 or so, so of course he's going to be a person who 'fights with police and tries to steal tasers' when he's 50.

Still, plenty of apologists will actually believe that sort of claptrap, which is exactly why the CCSD released that report.

[paleotn]

28. So Scott deserved to be gunned down?...

...no judge. No jury. No legal defense. What exactly is the point of the article?

[surrealAmerican]

30. How old was he at the time?

This sounds like a kid who got into a fistfight - not so unusual a situation, and with no bearing on his behavior decades later, as an adult.

I guess maybe it establishes why he would want to run from police, but even that's a stretch.

[Deuce]

31. Pathetic...no relevance to him being killed.

[Chemisse]

32. And this is relevant . . . . how?

While one cannot blame reporters for digging up this kind of thing, it is unseemly for the police department involved in the shooting to release it.

There is only one reason to do that - to demonize the victim, a technique that has always worked in the past.

[CincyDem]

33. Thank god they finally got him.

Charleston County can now remove his picture from the "Most Wanted" wall. That's good news because now he can be replaced.

I heard there a guy down there, if you can imagine, still running around free (and alive) who, in 1991, was involved in a harsh conversation with county sheriffs. Those overhearing the conversation remember, to this day, the man's purposeful avoidance of the traditional "yes, massah" and "no, massah" responses. While several witnesses have passes on, several of those recently interviewed said they were still haunted by the experience and hope the perp can be swiftly brought to Charleston County justice.

Fortunately, his time will come.

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<-- hopefully not necessary but to be sure. All this Mirror article proves is that Walter Scott was probably a normal guy in his early 20's. You could replace his name in this article with that of about 20% of the male population who did at least one (and maybe only one) stupid thing in their 20's.

If we're going to get into history lessons, I can't wait for the class on Michael Slager's past experiences.

[Ineeda]

34. Oh FFS --

Shame on you!

[jwirr]

35. Oh, a real biggie. And means absolutely nothing 28 years later.

[CanonRay]

36. Totally irrelevant

[thucythucy]

37. This from the same poster

who posted a BS story about "Puerto Ricans" qualifying for Social Security Disability because they only speak Spanish.

Bashing Spanish speaking people with disabilities, and the victim of a police murder, all within a week or so of joining DU.

I expect MIRT will get on to this one in the not too distant future.

[Tom Ripley]

44. It won't be soon enough

[giftedgirl77]

38. Your bullshit is getting tiresome.

I know I'm not the only one that notices the trend that is occurring with this poster. Two pieces in 2 days, 1st the hit piece on Puerto Ricans now this shit.

Fuckin bullshit.

[IDemo]

39. There may also be some dirt on him at an earlier age

[Darb]

40. That settles it, he had it coming.

[Calista241]

41. This happened 30 fucking years ago.

Who gives a shit? He still got into the coast guard afterwards.

[cbayer]

45. Locking

It is host consensus that this is old news and does not meet the criteria for LBN.