{"id":8853,"date":"2015-04-08T03:32:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T03:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8853"},"modified":"2015-04-08T03:32:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T03:32:44","slug":"s-c-cop-charged-with-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8853","title":{"rendered":"S.C. cop charged with murder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Here we go again.<\/p>\n<p>This one is bad. Very bad. A graphic video shows a North Charleston, S.C., police officer shooting someone in the back &#8212; as the victim is sprinting away from the police officer.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/crime\/south-carolina-police-officer-charged-with-murder-after-shooting-man-during-traffic-stop\/ar-AAayMPl<\/p>\n<p>And yes, the officer is white and the shooting victim is black.<\/p>\n<p>Officer Michael Slager has been charged with murder in the shooting death of Walter Scott.<\/p>\n<p>Scott was unarmed. Slager fired eight shots at Scott.<\/p>\n<p>How does one come to grips with this incident? Slager reportedly told\u00a0investigators that he felt threatened by Scott. Threatened? By an unarmed man running away at full speed?<\/p>\n<p>A conviction on a murder charge at the very least is going to send Slager to prison for a very long time.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t convict him here. I just hope <em>this time<\/em> the case is adjudicated correctly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go again. This one is bad. Very bad. A graphic video shows a North Charleston, S.C., police officer shooting someone in the back &#8212; as the victim is sprinting away from the police officer. http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/crime\/south-carolina-police-officer-charged-with-murder-after-shooting-man-during-traffic-stop\/ar-AAayMPl And yes, the officer is white and the shooting victim is black. Officer Michael Slager has been charged &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8853\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">S.C. cop charged with murder<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1008,3033,3162,3171,3628,5165],"class_list":["post-8853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-civil-rights","tag-michael-slager","tag-murder-charge","tag-n-charleston-sc","tag-police-officer","tag-walter-scott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}