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Police and witnesses say Scott tried to run from Slager before turning to fight for the officer’s Taser. It was during that scuffle that the officer fired his service weapon, fatally wounding Scott.
Imagine there was no camera.
Imagine no one had filmed Walter L. Scott being shot in the back Saturday by a North Charleston, South Carolina, police officer. Imagine the only thing we knew about this 50-year-old black man’s death was what his murderer told us — that Scott had stolen the officer’s stun gun and therefore posed an immediate threat.
Now imagine how often this sort of thing happens when cameras aren’t rolling. That’s the level of state-sanctioned violence black people face in America today.