Only Half The Jury Was Convinced Walter Scott’s Death Was A Crime

By Bob Owens

The jury foreman in the trial of North Charleston police officer Michale Slager surprised people this morning when he spoke about the mistrial in the case, and noted that a murder conviction simply was not on the table once they looked at the available evidence.

The jury in the the murder trial of former North Charleston, South Carolina, police officer Michael Slager, dismissed the murder charge, finding no evidence of “malicious” intent, according to jury foreman Dorsey Montgomery, the lone person of color on the 12-member panel. The jurors then consider a lesser charge of manslaughter, but five jurors could not decide on that, and one juror said he was dead set against conviction. Although the officer what white and the suspect black, race did not come up in the deliberations, Montgomery told the Today Show. “I do believe some jurors may have had that in their mind, but the majority of them didn’t have anything in reference to race that may have played a factor in the decision.”

I have to admit that after seeing the video of the 2015 shooting, it appeared to me to be a criminal homicide, and more than …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms