A white South Carolina police officer who claimed he killed a black man in self-defense was quickly charged with murder after a bystander's video recorded him firing eight shots at the man's back as he ran away. Government authorities sought Wednesday to contain the outrage as protests began.
About 40 to 50 people gathered Wednesday outside City Hall in North Charleston, led by a group formed after the fatal shooting of another black man in Ferguson, Missouri.
The video, provided to the dead man's family and lawyer by an unidentified person who shot the footage, shows North Charleston Patrolman Michael Thomas Slager dropping his stun gun, pulling out his handgun and firing at Walter Lamer Scott from a distance as he runs away. The 50-year-old man falls after the eighth shot, fired after a brief pause.
Scott's parents appeared separately on TV shows Wednesday morning, a day after the officer was charged.
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