In this audio, "Officer" Michael Slager is heard saying, "when your adrenaline starts pumping and stuff," while offers around him laugh in agreement with several "oh yeah's." This statement is being assessed closely by prosecutors and will most likely be used against Slager in court.
Many have been closely following up with this traumatic story of yet another unarmed black man losing his life for the sheer purpose of a presumably racist cop's enjoyment. Walter Scott was running, unarmed, from cops due to an overwhelming amount of debt from child support. The magnitude of abuse from our own police force is generally nothing new, along with the government's justification of every single instance of abuse starting the day the pilgrims set foot on this country. Recent examples that are very similar to this case include Michael Brown and Eric Garner, who were murdered in front of crowds of people but the officers were let off without a spot on their records. (And one of them even goes on to different conventions to speak about himself.)
This audio account should be enough to convict any person for the act of murder. Let us hope that this officer is thrown in jail for manslaughter, rather than a twist in an events allowing for one eye witness out of several to state that they observed an altercation to change the final verdict.
(Disclaimer: Before anyone says, "Not all cops are like that," please reread my paragraph at least 50 times.)
Adrenaline? Yeah your adrenaline should be running because you just killed a person, not because you ACCIDENTALLY hurt someone. I can't believe something like this would happen. It appears to me as stupidity if it isn't a hate crime. -Destiny Ramirez
ReplyDeletePolice are supposed to be here to help EVERYONE, but they only help a select few, and hurt others. This is happening way too much, and it's gotten worse in the past few years. I cannot believe this is happening and specifically white people have had a much harder time accepting people aren't the same race. Why? I have no idea. Either way, racism, especially this extreme, is not something that should be accepted.
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