FERGUSON REVISITED ??

As in Ferguson, ‘eyewitnesses’ who were not even at the scene lied, in this case by claiming the Charlotte cops shot an unarmed man

By Bob Walsh

On Wednesday the DA of Charlotte, North Carolina announced that his office was not going to prosecute Charlotte P.D. officer Brentley Vinson in the on-duty shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott, 43.

Cops rolled on the scene looking for someone else but saw Scott in his car with a gun and some weed. That, as one might expect, drew their interest. The cops saw Scott get out of his car, then get back in the car. They assert they saw he had a gun. A gun that Scott had purchased illegally was recovered at the scene. They backtracked the gun to the illegal seller who admitted selling it to him. The .380 automatic had a round in the chamber, the hammer cocked and the safety off. Scott's DNA was found on the gun and a somewhat blurry fingerprint which may, or may not, have been Scott's depending on which standard is used.

Regular consumers of news will remember the September incident which was largely recorded and put on social media by Scott's wife. In that recording Ms. Scott repeatedly told the officers Scott was not armed. She was not only wrong, she lied. She knew he had a gun. (Social media comes in handy for investigators too.) Alleged eyewitnesses asserted that Scott was shot by anywhere from one to four white cops. In fact the officer who shot him to death was black. None of the other officers fired their weapons.

Nine people claimed to have witnessed the shooting. Three of them asserted that Scott was in fact unarmed. It turned out all three were lying and were not even at the scene of the shooting.

The shooting led to two nights of violent protests in the Charlotte area. One person was murdered during the protest-riots.

Over 2,000 man-hours went into the investigation. A total of 23 career prosecutors reviewed the case. They ALL said that there was no legal reason to proceed against Officer Vinson.

Actual objective reality (truth) can be a bitch sometimes.