This is the headline from that site: Keith Scott's fingerprints, DNA, blood found on gun, police sources say |
Your doubt in this situation is laughable, frankly. Two police body cameras were running, plus the wife was filming (while yelling) from a short distance away; you seriously find it possible the police planted a gun in the midst of this? Plus, the police have already stated they found his fingerprints, DNA, and his blood on the gun (which they also have). How do you explain those? If you still think it's possible they planted the gun, then these are not police we're dealing with here - they're the reincarnations of Harry frickin Houdinni. |
So gun ownership is now a valid reason for extra judicial execution ? |
Yes, I absolutely think it is possible for the gun to have been planted. There is photographic evidence showing the scene immediately after the shooting without the gun on the ground. A later photo shows the gun. How do you explain that? If you have the guy's bleeding body, how hard can it be to get blood, fingerprints, and DNA? Again, I am not saying that I am sure either way. I just don't understand how you can be sure. It is clear the gun materialized between the two pictures I posted. For all your claims about cameras, can you say how that happened? |
It hasn't been proven to be "some bullshit" at all. |
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Your doubt in this situation is laughable, frankly. Two police body cameras were running, plus the wife was filming (while yelling) from a short distance away; you seriously find it possible the police planted a gun in the midst of this? Plus, the police have already stated they found his fingerprints, DNA, and his blood on the gun (which they also have). How do you explain those? If you still think it's possible they planted the gun, then these are not police we're dealing with here - they're the reincarnations of Harry frickin Houdinni. Love this! |
| Is it possible one of the officers kicked the gun away from the body when they saw it (after CPR was performed)? |
| Well, I think that since the head of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP went on CNN last night and said that it didn't matter if it was a book or a gun, says it all. She saw the tape and she knows there was a gun, and now she is trying to use semantics to get her point across. Point well taken, there was a gun. Here's an idea, when a police officer, or five police officers, tell you to sit down and shut up, do it, you might not get shot that way. |
That was some serious mental gymnastics there. I'm impressed. |
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It's obvious the did he/didn't he have a gun debate is a push so how about we switch gears and actually have a reasonable discussion as a PP suggested...
Let's wander back a bit and examine the basis of the confrontation to begin with. Why the hell were the police even bothering Keith Scott in the first place? They were not even there for him they were supposed to be serving a warrant on somebody else. He could have been sitting in his car blasting "F**k the Police" - that still doesn't justify them confronting him and telling him to get out of his car. It's an open carry state so he could have been sitting in his car waiting to pick his child up from school twirling his gun around like Clint Eastwood in "High Plains Drifter" - that still doesn't justify them confronting him and telling him to drop his weapon. This is what everybody is overlooking. This is what nobody is taking into consideration because everyone is so pent up and preoccupied with their wanna-be-detective-mindsets trying to solve the mystery of whether there was a gun present or not. Nobody's even paying attention to the fact that the police haven't so much as said one word about why they approached Keith Scott to begin with. Anybody want to address this point or are you all content with just bickering back and forth about obscure photos all day? |
| Yeah no "twirling your gun around" is not covered under open carry. |
Well, it is said that's just the way they express their frustration. |
It's already been noted that I have a penchant for being obtuse but I think you get what I'm saying. So, you got any ideas on why the cops bothered Keith Scott to begin with? |
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"As they entered the complex, the police noticed Keith Lamont Scott, who was not the person they were trying to serve the warrant.
According to a statement by CMPD Chief Kerr Putney, the officers “observed a subject, Mr. Keith Lamont Scott, inside a vehicle in the apartment complex. The subject exited the vehicle armed with a handgun. Officers observed the subject get back into the vehicle at which time they began to approach the subject.” Putney’s statement continued: “Officers gave loud and clear verbal commands, corroborated by witnesses, for the subject to drop the weapon.”" |
He fit a suspect description. Instead of identifying himself when the officer approach he did whatever his wife was screaming at him not to do. |