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nytimes.com: South Carolina Officer Is Charged With Murder in Black Man’s Death


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This is going to be everywhere soon. Video just released. Warning graphic:

South Carolina Officer Is Charged With Murder in Black Man’s Death

 

 

WASHINGTON — A white police officer in North Charleston, S.C., was charged with murder on Tuesday after a video surfaced showing him shooting and killing an apparently unarmed black man in the back while he ran away.

 

The officer, Michael T. Slager, 33, had said he feared for his life because the man took his stun gun in a scuffle after a traffic stop on Saturday. A video, however, shows the officer firing eight times as the man — Walter L. Scott, 50 — fled.

 

The North Charleston mayor announced the state charges at a news conference Tuesday evening.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/us/south-carolina-officer-is-charged-with-murder-in-black-mans-death.html?referrer=

 

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Without a video people would all be calling him a hero and saying the dead man shouldn't have grabbed for his taser.

I don't think so. I believe there's some whack jobs that think killing another human being is justified in situations like this, however the masses don't feel that way.

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I can't believe they never said anything to the camera guy. I give credit to whoever filmed it because after seeing what they did to the man, I would think they'd come at me for filming

 

I was surprised by that also. Seemed odd. He looked over at the guy at least once.

 

I thought for sure the cops would have at the very least approached him.

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What the hell is wrong with some people ?

 

You shoot someone that is running away over a routine traffic stop ?

 

Even if he grabbed his stun gun, the guy is running away. Trying to figure out why he is out of the car to begin with.

 

 

What happen prior matters,but the story from the link is that he didn't want to be picked up for back child support.

 

the film certainly doesn't look good

 

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This case is hugely different than Ferguson.   We KNOW what happened and the officer is being charged with murder.   It's horrible but the process appears to be working properly.

 

 

(of course when the all white jury finds he acted in self defense, watch out   :ph34r:   )

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