(NNPA)—Without the video, North Charleston, S.C. police officer Michael T. Slager would likely have gotten away with murder.
Without the video, we wouldn’t see Officer Michael T. Slager have the, shall we say, presence of mind, to quickly retrieve what appears to be his Taser and plant it beside the lifeless body of Walter Lamar Scott.
Without the video, Officer Michael T. Slager would no doubt have quickly been coached on the techniques of making himself appear in news media interviews the victim of the lethal encounter with the Black man he killed, 50-year-old Walter Lamar Scott.
Without the video, the conservative punditocracy and talk-show jockeys would be raging that the dead man’s action again proved that Black and Brown civilians are “waging war” on police.
But we have the video—one of the technological innovations that increasingly have helped suggest what people of color face from an alarming number of White cops—and the first-degree murder indictment of Officer Michael T. Slager.
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