Hopefully she can eventually come to grips with what her son did.

as well as his pregnant wife.

My sympathy goes to the Scott family, not the Slager family.

Slager's mother and wife didn't murder Mr. Scott, Slager did. Having sympathy for what Slager's family is dealing with takes nothing away from the loss of Mr. Scott's family.

Unless you think Slager's entire family deserves to be punished because of what he did.

I'm not wanting to punish her, I don't doubt her anguish. I'm sure it's hard being pregnant and knowing that your husband just murdered someone, lost his job and will go to jail.

I simply do not extend my sympathy to everyone who comes along. There will be plenty of other people who will offer their sympathy, so she will not notice when I do not.

You would not expect the Scott family to offer her sympathy. Not sure why it's such a horrible thing that I do not.

BUT, if you want me to offer my sympathy to the mother of every killer, I guess I could... frankly, I don't need to know how they feel, and think it would be best if they suffered in private.

Interviewing Slager's mother is a ploy to garner sympathy. I'm not falling for it.

If Slager's wife is pregnant, I don't doubt that scads of conservatives will create a fund for her. She will get an outpouring of sympathy, too.

Please think for a moment, if they hadn't done the article, would you have automatically thought, "Oh, I should feel sympathy for Slager's mother. It must be a terrible weight on her."

I don't think so. It's a ploy.

and extremely dumb.

Get a story regardless if what they report is even true, poor woman, I despise those kind of people!!!!

Who the hell here doesn't have sympathy for the Scott family?

loves her son. He is going to prison.

Wow, caring soul I can tell.

Why did Scott run? He would have had a night in the can and bonded out after a judge lit into him about paying to support his kids.

Face it, Scott was not a nice guy and very poor hero material.

Slager was just another cop who was winded and pissed off and lost it and killed someone in anger.

Both families are going to suffer for the actions of two men who acted on impulse without thinking anything through. Neither family has done anything wrong.

I hope Slager is wise enough to plea bargain to manslaughter, get this over with, serve his time.

Both families are going to need sympathy and support.

you feel for both the families.

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is supposed to be a great event.

I hope the stress does not hurt her infant.

must be difficult to process.

Once she watches the video, I hope she has some sort of support system in place. She will not be able to handle it.

a mother's love while coming to terms with what her son did will be a process for her. Make no mistake they are pulling out all the stops for him. They hired the best defense lawyer in the state, one of the top 100 in the country.

Unless she came out and initiated contact with the media or made statements supporting her son murdering that poor man in cold blood, she should not be fair game.

watch the entire video. I feel so bad for her and her family.

He's going to have a long time to think about that as he sits in jail.

and so true. I don't get people who say stupid shit like this.

no matter what your child does, you love them and want to think the best of them.

I can cut her some slack and give her time to come to terms with this. She did nothing to deserve what is coming her way.

When she looks at him, she sees him through different filters than others do.

That doesn't mean I have no sympathy for Mr. Scott's family, what the cop did was wrong, I just don't expect his mom to be anywhere except denial right now.

Makes me wonder if he thought he was at the gun range.

I do feel bad for her though...I just feel worse for the mother that lost her son due to her "uncharacteristic" son.