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A white police officer in North Charleston, South Carolina, was charged with murder on Tuesday after a video surfaced showing him shooting in the back and killing an apparently unarmed black man (Walter Scott) while the man ran away, according to The New York Times.
The officer, Michael T. Slager, 33, said he had feared for his life because the man had taken his stun gun in a scuffle after a traffic stop on Saturday.
An eyewitness to the shooting death of 50-year-old Walter Scott spoke out about what he saw and what he recorded on his cell phone after that video was made public.