Here’s what happened. A traffic stop for a possible seatbelt violation. Then the driver ends up on the ground, shot by a state trooper.
And now former South Carolina state trooper of the year Sean Groubert is out of a job and facing 20 years in prison if convicted of ‘assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature’, as they call such things in South Carolina.
The trooper`s dash camera caught the shooting on video.
Trooper: “Are you hit?”
Victim: “I think so! I can’t feel my legs. I don’t know what happened. I just grabbed my license. Why did you shoot me?”
Trooper: “Well, you dove head first back into your car.”
Groubert`s attorney says he thought Lavar Jones was reaching for a gun.
Trooper: “It’s a seatbelt violation sir.”
Victim: “Seatbelt! I just pulled it off right there at the corner to pull into the gas station! Ahhh!”
Victim: “Seatbelt! I just pulled it off right there at the corner to pull into the gas station! Ahhh!”
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