re: #239 goddamnedfrank

This is CSI 101. Never disturb the evidence where it lay. He was actively tampering with the crime scene. CSI would have indicated where each piece of relevant evidence was found - whether it was shell casings or bullet fragments, or a taser - marked, identified, photographed, collected, and preserved for study in the course of the forensic evidence in the lab (checking fingerprints, etc.)

By touching that evidence without so much as proper gear, he contaminated the item he moved, which is the opposite of preserving it.

If he was concerned about making sure it was preserved, he would have left it where it fell - identified it to the investigators, and left it at that.

Chuckles is a bloviating moron, but I repeat myself for insinuating that the officer was preserving evidence in this fashion. The officer was tampering with the crime scene and the video caught him not only shooting Walter Scott in the back 8 times, but tampering with the very evidence relating to the shooting.