Cop asks for license, citizen reaches for license, guess what happens!

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The video showing a shooting involving a state trooper and an unarmed man has been released to the public.

The video was taken from the dash camera installed inside 31-year-old Sean Groubert's vehicle during an encounter in which Groubert shot 35-year-old Levar Jones on September 4th at a Circle K gas station on Broad River Road.

Department of Public Safety Director Leroy Smith fired Groubert September 19th after observing the video and reviewing a report from the State Law Enforcement Division.

In the video, Groubert can be heard asking Jones for his license. As soon as Jones reaches inside his vehicle, though, Groubert begins firing his weapon, shouting "get on the ground, get on the ground."

Jones, who was injured in the hip, stumbles away from the vehicle. He throws up his hands and can be heard asking Groubert "what did I do" and "what did I do sir?"

Groubert then tells Jones to put his hands behind his back.

Groubert was arrested Wednesday and charged with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. Bond was set at $75,000.

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This guy is lucky the dash cam wasn't mysteriously "non-operational" and that the cop has such terrible aim that three shots only grazed his hip. (Even with all that, that he was fired and charged without an apparent peep from the union tells me the cop was probably a serial frick-up.)

Bonus points: the traffic stop was a seat belt violation.

It annoys the shite out of me that they're still calling this an "officer-involved shooting" and not aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, even after it's actually charged as such.