Cop Who Shot Unarmed Levar Jones Arrested For Shoplifting, Still Free On Bail

Openly black motorists got a bit of good news this week when Steven Hildreth Jr. explained to the world that since he made it through a traffic stop without being murdered by cops, that whole #BlackLivesMatter thing was a mess of bunk. As long as you’re polite and respectful and listen to officers’ commands, you won’t get shot, black people!

Well, you’ve got maybe a 50/50 shot, as it turns out. A little over a year ago, medical courier Levar Jones took off his seat belt as he pulled into a gas station, and wound up handcuffed, bleeding on the ground from gunshot wounds. Here’s how South Carolina State Police Lance Corporal Sean Groubert described the events at the time:

“Before I could even get out of my car, he jumped out, stared at me, and as I jumped out of my car and identified myself as I approached him, he jumped head-first back into his car. I started retracting back towards the rear of his vehicle telling him, ‘Look, get out of the car. Let me see your hands.’ He jumped out of the car. I saw something black in his hands. I ran to the other side of the car yelling at him, and he kept coming towards me. Apparently, it was his wallet.”

Gripping, to be sure, but not at all true, as the dash-cam video would shortly reveal.

What really happened was Jones was already parked at a gas station and convenience store when Groubert noticed Jones wasn’t wearing his seatbelt, and pulled up behind him. He told Jones, who was already out of his car, to produce his license. When Jones reached into the open door of his car to get his license, Groubert screamed at him to get out of the car, and as Jones immediately obeyed, Groubert opened fire on him. Even after he was shot…READ MORE

By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.