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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (172898)	9/25/2014 1:07:02 PM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224774

It must be very old news.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (172898)	9/25/2014 1:51:54 PM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224774

It happened on September 4 and he is convicted already? Do you have an article covering the conviction? Associated Press 10:04 a.m. MST September 25, 2014 A photo released by the South Carolina State Police shows trooper Sean Groubert.(Photo: South Carolina State Police) 1 CONNECT TWEET LINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE COLUMBIA, S.C. — An unarmed man shot by a South Carolina state police officer during a traffic stop repeated one question through his anguished cries as he lay wounded, waiting for an ambulance: "Why did you shoot me?" In a video captured by a dashboard camera in the patrol car, then-Trooper Sean Groubert told Levar Jones it was because he "dove head first" back into his car. Jones said he was just reaching for his license as Groubert had instructed. Groubert's lawyer says the officer justifiably feared for his life. But prosecutors and Groubert's boss disagreed. The 31-year-old officer was charged with felony assault and fired less than three weeks after the Sept. 4 traffic stop at a Columbia convenience store over a seatbelt violation. Jones is recovering from being shot in the hip. TG: My best guess is he thought the overt movement to the interior of the vehicle was to get a weapon. Don't forget his position from outside the vehicle gave him a different perspective. I am not saying it was a "good shoot". Much would have to be reviewed in detail to make that determination. Thank God the fellow is alright and healing. I don't think it would have occurred had he not re-entered the vehicle. That doesn't make it the fault of the wounded man. It simply establishes some mitigation and reasonable doubt.