Killer Cop’s Dash Cam Footage Released
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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C., April 9 (UPI) — South Carolina officials released the dash cam footage from the police cruiser of former officer Michael Slager showing the traffic stop before the shooting death of Walter Scott.
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The footage, released Thursday by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, shows the moments leading up, but not including, the fatal confrontation between the two men.
North Charleston police officer Slager pulled Scott over for a faulty tail light Saturday. The two vehicles pulled into the parking lot of an auto parts store before Slager approached the driver’s side window of the vehicle Scott was driving. The video shows there was also a passenger in Scott’s vehicle.
Scott tells Slager he doesn’t have insurance for the vehicle because, though he’s planning to, he hasn’t purchased it. Slager returns to his cruiser and shortly thereafter, Scott can be seen exiting his vehicle and running away from the scene.
Slager runs after Scott, but the pursuant chase is not caught on camera until the incident is picked up by Feidin Santana, the 23-year-old whose footage of the shooting led to the officer’s arrest for murder.
Santana said he almost erased the video out of fear for his safety.
