It's harder to fire a gun while driving than one might think

Slow news day over at South Carolina is so gay. Scoop Doggy's pulled a video off YouTube- in another true-to-form Palmetto Scoop, it has been out there for months- and attributes it to the Obama campaign. The usual invocations of Nazi Youth and North Korea, of course.

Then McScoop runs a post by one of SCISG's board of seldom-heard contributors, praising a post by McScoop.

Then- an interesting glimpse into editor Adam Fogle's view of law enforcement interactions with citizens:

The trial of a South Carolina trooper who allegedly rammed his cruiser into a fleeing suspect last year began today in Greenville. According to the Associated Press:

Federal prosecutors say Lance Cpl. Steven Garren intentionally hit Marvin Grant when he was running from police after a traffic stop in June of last year. A key video of the incident shows Grant being hit and flipping over the hood of the trooper’s patrol car.

Prosecutor Brent Gray told a jury Tuesday that the video shows the officer steering in Grant’s direction. The trooper’s lawyer says Garren tried to avoid hitting Grant.

Garren is charged with using unreasonable force and depriving a suspect of his civil rights. A conviction could bring the now-suspended officer 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

I don’t really care if Garren’s actions were deliberate or not, he had every right to take that guy out. As my hero Sheriff John Bunnell would say, “if you’re dumb enough to run from the police, you can expect a hefty dose of the law.”

In the suspect’s case, that “hefty dose of the law” was a face full of pavement. He probably should have expected that when, you know, he ran from the cops.

Also, it looks to me like the guy actually ran in front of the car. And moments later, he got hit. How completely unexpected.