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The by an anonymous bystander played and replayed, under the disclaimer “graphic video,” as CNN analysts weighed in.
“Shot like a dog.”
“Cover up. Planting of evidence.”
“Treated worse than a dog.”
“Several minutes have already gone by.”
And again it played. And replayed. It was horrible — difficult to watch, yet important to watch.
“We’re going to have to get this video enhanced.” Seven shots, then one more.
“Go through this scene by scene.”
And, Anderson Cooper said, stopping a shouting match among participants, “a press conference with the man who was killed is coming up…”
A white police officer who shot and killed a black man after a traffic stop was charged with murder in North Charleston, S.C., on Tuesday.
The FBI opened a civil rights investigation Tuesday after video surfaced of the lawman shooting eight times at a 50-year-old black man as he ran away. Walter L. Scott died Saturday after Patrolman 1st Class Michael T. Slager, 33, shot him in the back.
The video footage, which The Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C., obtained Tuesday from a source who asked to remain anonymous, was seized on by CNN and replayed relentlessly. The video 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 a statement that Slager released earlier this week through his attorney.
