South Carolina police officer charged in fatal shooting of man accused of running stop sign

[Jilly_in_VA]

A small-town police officer of nearly 30 years in South Carolina was charged Wednesday for shooting and killing an unarmed man who led her on a high-speed chase and then tried to run from his wrecked car, investigators said.

Hemingway police officer Cassandra Dollard, 52, faces one count of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting early Sunday after she chased the driver 8 miles outside the limits of the town of 530 people.

Dollard tried to pull over Robert Junior Langley, 46, for running a stop sign and it turned into a chase where Langley was driving more than 100 mph, according to an arrest warrant from the State Law Enforcement Division.

Langley crashed his car in a ditch in rural Georgetown County and was trying to get out the passenger door when he was shot in the chest, agents said.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/02/10/south-carolina-police-officer-charged-fatal-shooting/6733650001/
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Unarmed man, running a stop sign while Black. Oh, and this police officer of 30 years has worked for 6 agencies and been fired twice......

[MyOwnPeace]

1. Fired twice??????

HOW does this keep happening?!?!?

[Walleye]

2. There is a vengeful bloodlust happening in the South, and other places

Reckless driving, trigger-happy cops. Doesn’t anybody just want to live their life anymore?

[Hangingon]

3. Don't run from cops - especially at 100 mph.

Bad officer, but also bad driver

[Jilly_in_VA]

4. High speed chases

are STUPID. Especially for running a stop sign. Just note the guy's plate number and issue a ticket later, FFS, copper. Don't be a cowboy cop.

[Hangingon]

5. I don't like unnecessary high speed chases either

This is a sad, strange story. The run stop sign probably the biggest crime that day in the unnamed metropolis of 530. If she had not shot him, she could have gotten him for the stop sign, speeding and resisting arrest.

[Jilly_in_VA]

6. Yeah. Right.

"Stop resisting!" BANG. She was spoiling for a fight.