Video of SC Shooting Reignites Debate
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South Carolina officer who shot black man was subject of prior excessive force complaintThe South Carolina police officer charged with murder after video surfaced of him shooting a fleeing unarmed black man in the back was allowed to stay on the force despite an earlier complaint that he used excessive force against another unarmed man.
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2 police killings, 2 outcomes: Lessons learned from Ferguson to South CarolinaIn both cases, a white police officer kills an unarmed black man. But the outcomes so far have been wildly different.
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Video of Walter Scott Shooting Reignites Debate on Police TacticsNothing has done more to fuel the national debate over police tactics than the dramatic, sometimes grisly videos: A man gasping “I can’t breathe” through a police chokehold on Staten Island, a 12-year-old boy shot dead in a park in Cleveland. And now, perhaps the starkest video yet, showing a South Carolina police officer shooting a fleeing man in the back.
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