A white police officer in North Charleston was charged with murder after shooting an unarmed 50 year-old black man four times in the back.
The shooting was caught on video—
The officer said he feared for his life.
The police officer has since been charged with murder.
Let’s pray the radicals and grievance mongers won’t burn down this city, too.
The Post and Courier reported:
A white North Charleston police officer was arrested on a murder charge after a video surfaced Tuesday of the lawman shooting eight times at a 50-year-old black man as the man ran away.
Walter L. Scott, a Coast Guard veteran and father of four, died Saturday after Patrolman 1st Class Michael T. Slager, 33, shot him in the back.
Five of the eight bullets hit Scott, his family’s attorney said. Four of those struck his back. One hit an ear.
The footage filmed by a bystander, which The Post and Courier obtained Tuesday from a source who asked to remain anonymous, shows the end of the confrontation between the two on Saturday after Scott ran from a traffic stop. It was the first piece of evidence contradicting an account Slager gave earlier this week through his attorney.
