Hmmm ..........................HAIL AMRIKA...............
Five days after being fired from the South Carolina Highway Patrol for shooting an unarmed man several times during a traffic stop, former cop Sean Groubert was arrested in the city of Columbia on Wednesday and charged with a felony. Groubert, 31, now faces two decades in prison if he’s found guilty of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature; he was released from custody late Wednesday on $75,000 bond, but not before the public was provided with dash-cam footage from the Sept. 4 shooting that sent Levar Jones to an area hospital.
The three-minute-long video recording — first played at Wednesday’s bond hearing and then published online by The State newspaper — shows Groubert trailing a pickup truck earlier this month in his cruiser for a few seconds before he initiates a traffic stop over a supposed seat belt violation and pulls up behind the vehicle at a local gas station
ones, the driver, is shown exiting the vehicle near a gas pump and being asked by Groubert for his license, Jones reaches into his back pocket briefly and then turns back towards the cab of the pickup where he says he was looking for his ID.
Groubert fired four shots at Jones as the man attempted to produce his identification as requested, and one of the bullets struck the man’s hip."What did I do, sir?" Jones is heard asking repeatedly. "I don't know what happened," Jones says in the video. "I just grabbed my license."
"Sir, why was I shot? All I did was reach for my license. I'm coming from work."
The South Carolina Department of Public Safety announced on Sept. 19 that “Groubert’s actions rose to such an extent that his employment with us must be terminated.” Up until then, Groubert’s rank with the state troopers was that of lance corporal.
“While Mr. Groubert was within the law to stop Mr. Jones for a safety belt violation, the force administered in this case was unwarranted, inconsistent with how our troopers are trained and clearly in violation of Department policies,” SCDPS Director Leroy Smith said in a statement then. Neither charges nor the release of the video were announced until Wednesday this week, however — 20 days after the shooting.
According to WIS news, Jones has only released one statement publically since being shot.
“I know that the community has questions and people are interested in what and why this happened to me. I think God everyday that I am here with a story to tell and hope my situation can make a chance. My recovery is coming [along] well, and hope this situation can make a change, not just here at home in South Carolina, but coast-to-coast,” Jones told the network earlier this month.]Five days after being fired from the South Carolina Highway Patrol for shooting an unarmed man several times during a traffic stop, former cop Sean Groubert was arrested in the city of Columbia on Wednesday and charged with a felony.
Groubert, 31, now faces two decades in prison if he’s found guilty of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature; he was released from custody late Wednesday on $75,000 bond, but not before the public was provided with dash-cam footage from the Sept. 4 shooting that sent Levar Jones to an area hospital.The three-minute-long video recording — first played at Wednesday’s bond hearing and then published online by The State newspaper — shows Groubert trailing a pickup truck earlier this month in his cruiser for a few seconds before he initiates a traffic stop over a supposed seat belt violation and pulls up behind the vehicle at a local gas station
ones, the driver, is shown exiting the vehicle near a gas pump and being asked by Groubert for his license, Jones reaches into his back pocket briefly and then turns back towards the cab of the pickup where he says he was looking for his ID.
Groubert fired four shots at Jones as the man attempted to produce his identification as requested, and one of the bullets struck the man’s hip.
"What did I do, sir?" Jones is heard asking repeatedly. "I don't know what happened," Jones says in the video. "I just grabbed my license."
"Sir, why was I shot? All I did was reach for my license. I'm coming from work."
The South Carolina Department of Public Safety announced on Sept. 19 that “Groubert’s actions rose to such an extent that his employment with us must be terminated.” Up until then, Groubert’s rank with the state troopers was that of lance corporal.
“While Mr. Groubert was within the law to stop Mr. Jones for a safety belt violation, the force administered in this case was unwarranted, inconsistent with how our troopers are trained and clearly in violation of Department policies,” SCDPS Director Leroy Smith said in a statement then. Neither charges nor the release of the video were announced until Wednesday this week, however — 20 days after the shooting.
According to WIS news, Jones has only released one statement publically since being shot.
“I know that the community has questions and people are interested in what and why this happened to me. I think God everyday that I am here with a story to tell and hope my situation can make a chance.
My recovery is coming [along] well, and hope this situation can make a change, not just here at home in South Carolina, but coast-to-coast,” Jones told the network earlier this month.
Yap........ Americans make sure to turn on cameras and recorders on all the time so you may have chance to save yourself dumped in jail by AMRIKA,,
In video shot from a camera on the dashboard of Mr Groubert's patrol car on 4 September, Mr Groubert pulls behind Mr Jones's truck in a Richland County petrol station, then asks, "Can I see your licence please?"
Mr Jones, who has just stepped out of the truck, turns and reaches into the cab, with no apparent aggression in his manner. An instant later Mr Groubert shouts "get out of the car" and bursts into the frame with gun drawn, then opens fire before Mr Jones can react
On Wednesday, prosecutors in Richland County, South Carolina, issued an arrest warrant charging Mr Groubert with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, a felony that carries up to 20 years in prison. The filing says Mr Groubert shot Mr Jones "without justification", and cites the video recording as evidence.
He has been released on a $75,000 (£46,000) bond. In Mr Groubert's case, the arrest warrant was issued less than three weeks after the shooting.
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that poor guy could have been dead., it is fortunate bullets didn't hit at right place., well I think every country should make all police force to record everything all the time when they are in active duty to make people trust yheir country/ city police force., these cameras and recording equipment is not that costly...
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