White Trooper Pleads Guilty in Shooting of Unarmed Black Man

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

A white South Carolina trooper pleaded guilty Monday to assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature in the 2014 shooting an unarmed black driver seconds after a traffic stop.

Trooper Sean Groubert, 32, faces up to 20 years in prison. The shooting captured on dash-cam video from the trooper's patrol car shocked the country, coming during a wave of questionable police shootings.

Levar Jones was walking into a convenience store in September 2014 when Groubert got out of his patrol car and demanded Jones' driver's license.

Jones turned back to reach into his car and Groubert fired four shots. Jones' wallet is seen flying out of his hands.

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By JEFFREY COLLINS, ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Mar 14, 2016, 1:29 PM ET

[kristopher]

1. Better recruiting and training would have saved both individuals a lot of grief.

I don't diminish the responsibility of trooper Groubert in this - Jones did Nothing Wrong.

But I have a sense that Groubert should have just never been given the job or at the least, thatstrong training in 1) even handed policing to eliminate racial bias and 2) the proper use of Minimum Force would have erased this event from our universe.

[Joe Chi Minh]

2. There are some people only the fear of punishment can reach.