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S. Carolina Officer Indicted for Killing of Unarmed Man
Posted on 12/4/14 at 5:22 pm
Posted on 12/4/14 at 5:22 pm
Indicted for murder.
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ORANGEBURG, S.C. — A white police chief who fatally shot an unarmed black man in South Carolina in 2011 was charged with murder, and his lawyer accused prosecutors of taking advantage of national outrage toward police to get the indictment.
Richard Combs, the former police chief and sole officer in the small town of Eutawville, was indicted Wednesday, the same day a grand jury in New York decided against charging an officer in a chokehold death
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The former police chief’s lawyer questioned why prosecutors waited almost four years to ask for the murder charge. Combs had previously been indicted with misconduct in office.
“He’s trying to make it racial,” Combs’ attorney John O’Leary said of Solicitor David Pascoe. “He’s got all the national issues going on.”
Pascoe said he told Combs’ lawyers a year ago that he would pursue a murder charge if a judge rejected Combs’ claim of self-defense. A judge ruled against the defense’s “stand your ground” motion earlier this week.
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Combs worked in Eutawville — population 300 and one-third black — when Bernard Bailey came to Town Hall to argue about his daughter’s broken-taillight ticket in May 2011. Combs tried to arrest Bailey on an obstruction of justice charge, prosecutors said. Bailey marched back outside to his truck, and Combs tried to get inside, he said to turn off the ignition. The two briefly fought, and Combs shot Bailey, 54, twice in the chest in his pickup.
Combs said at an earlier hearing that he was tangled in Bailey’s steering wheel as he tried to shut the engine off and feared for his life if Bailey drove away.
Prosecutors said Combs was the aggressor, following Bailey as he tried to get away. They said he should have called for more officers to help or let Bailey go and arrest him another day instead of escalating the confrontation.
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Posted on 12/4/14 at 5:25 pm to MSMHater
Stahp. You're destroying the narrative. How will CNN get ratings on something like this?
Posted on 12/4/14 at 5:28 pm to MSMHater
I agree about the escalating the situation part for sure.
Also sounds like he was upset about someone questioning his authority and considered that obstructing.
I think we need different procedures in situations like this where people don't get arrested so easily.
It seems like you just cannot argue with police without them getting mad and then charging you with some BS law that can be misinterpreted so easily.
I say all this without knowing exactly how it went down though.
Also sounds like he was upset about someone questioning his authority and considered that obstructing.
I think we need different procedures in situations like this where people don't get arrested so easily.
It seems like you just cannot argue with police without them getting mad and then charging you with some BS law that can be misinterpreted so easily.
I say all this without knowing exactly how it went down though.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 5:30 pm to MSMHater
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Eutawville
Is this how rednecks spell Utahville?
Posted on 12/4/14 at 5:33 pm to motionmagic
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It seems like you just cannot argue with police without them getting mad and then charging you with some BS law that can be misinterpreted so easily.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 5:41 pm to NeathOrangeandBlue
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The former police chief’s lawyer questioned why prosecutors waited almost four years to ask for the murder charge.
this seems odd to me.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 5:43 pm to motionmagic
quote:But but respect their authority...which was granted to them by a high school degree, a training program, and a gun.
It seems like you just cannot argue with police without them getting mad and then charging you with some BS law that can be misinterpreted so easily.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 5:43 pm to motionmagic
quote:But but respect their authority...which was granted to them by a high school degree, a training program, and a gun.
It seems like you just cannot argue with police without them getting mad and then charging you with some BS law that can be misinterpreted so easily.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 5:44 pm to MSMHater
A town of 300 doesn't need a police officer. I can imagine how well trained this "Chief" was.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 5:44 pm to MSMHater
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sole officer in the small town of Eutawville
Holy shite.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 5:51 pm to Hawkeye95
The chief's lawyer made a claim for a stand your ground defense. That was rejected last week as the article reads. So charges were filed.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 5:57 pm to the808bass
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The chief's lawyer made a claim for a stand your ground defense. That was rejected last week as the article reads. So charges were filed.
right but 4 years later? strange
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But but respect their authority...which was granted to them by a high school degree, a training program, and a gun.
true fact: in many jurisdictions, hairdressers are legally required to have more time in training that cops.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 6:01 pm to Hawkeye95
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true fact: in many jurisdictions, hairdressers are legally required to have more time in training that cops.
Not to hijack the thread but how can politicians in this day and age justify laws that require hair dressers and florists to have hundreds of hours of training to be licensed?
Posted on 12/4/14 at 6:13 pm to upgrayedd
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Not to hijack the thread but how can politicians in this day and age justify laws that require hair dressers and florists to have hundreds of hours of training to be licensed?
regulatory capture.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 6:29 pm to MSMHater
It will always annoy me when articles like this lead with the race of both individuals ONLY when they are different and AFTER the aggressor is in custody and known (ie obviously race is important when looking for a suspect). And that goes for whatever side each race falls on. I don't care if a white cop shoots a black man or a black cop shoots a white man. If it's unwarranted, I only care that a cop over steps his authority and kills a citizen.
frick this cop that "feared for his life" after following a guy who brought himself to the court house.
frick this cop that "feared for his life" after following a guy who brought himself to the court house.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 6:34 pm to MSMHater
Interesting that so far none of the stories that fit the narrative have been in the south. New York, Philadelphia, Missouri (not the south...sorry).
Posted on 12/4/14 at 7:02 pm to MSMHater
So what's a cop supposed to do?? Ask the perp if he would mind being arrested.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 8:24 pm to MSMHater
It's complete and utter bullshite the mainstream media isn't covering this. Really makes you wonder why they create the narratives they create...
Posted on 12/4/14 at 8:56 pm to ljhog
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So what's a cop supposed to do?? Ask the perp if he would mind being arrested.
No. But as soon as someone resists, shoot they arse.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 10:19 pm to GRTiger
We live in a wonderful colorblind post-racial society.
Really though how are people ever going to be colorblind with the way media reports?
Really though how are people ever going to be colorblind with the way media reports?
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