It’s a story we’ve heard countless times before: an unarmed person of color, killed by a police officer. The only difference between the case of Walter Scott and so many others, like Tamir Rice and Eric Garner, is that this time there have been consequences for the perpetrator. After an onlooker recorded the shooting, the police officer who killed Scott in North Charleston, S.C., Michael Slager, was stripped of his badge, arrested and charged with murder.
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