Dashboard video captures build-up to deadly South Carolina police shooting
- 9 years ago
It starts out as a routine traffic stop.
But newly-released pictures, filmed from the dashboard of policeman Michael Slager’s patrol car, show the moments before the South Carolina officer chased and fatally shot the unarmed black man in the vehicle he had pulled over.
The video clip, which lasts four minutes in total, shows Slager, 33, approaching a black Mercedes-Benz and asking the driver, Walter Scott, for his license and proof of insurance.
Slager tells Scott, 50, he was stopped for a broken tail light. A passenger is also seen sitting in the car.
The driver and officer have a brief exchange and the officer returns to his patrol car.
After about two minutes, Scott gets out of the Mercedes and signals to the officer, who says: “You got to stay in the car.”
Scott gets back into the vehicle but about 20 seconds later, he emerges again and takes off running.
Unlike an earlier bystander’s video, the new footage, released by South Carolina Police, does not show the gunsh
But newly-released pictures, filmed from the dashboard of policeman Michael Slager’s patrol car, show the moments before the South Carolina officer chased and fatally shot the unarmed black man in the vehicle he had pulled over.
The video clip, which lasts four minutes in total, shows Slager, 33, approaching a black Mercedes-Benz and asking the driver, Walter Scott, for his license and proof of insurance.
Slager tells Scott, 50, he was stopped for a broken tail light. A passenger is also seen sitting in the car.
The driver and officer have a brief exchange and the officer returns to his patrol car.
After about two minutes, Scott gets out of the Mercedes and signals to the officer, who says: “You got to stay in the car.”
Scott gets back into the vehicle but about 20 seconds later, he emerges again and takes off running.
Unlike an earlier bystander’s video, the new footage, released by South Carolina Police, does not show the gunsh