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A video taken from a dash cam in North Charleston, South Carolina Police Officer Michael T. Slager’scruiser was released Thursday, showing 50-year-old Walter Scott exiting his vehicle and running away.
Scott was fatally shot by Slager as he fled on foot Saturday, prompting authorities to charge the now-fired officer with murder. The short dash cam video captures just a portion of their encounter that began when Slager stopped Scott for a broken tail light.
According to CNN:
Slager approaches Scott’s vehicle. The two men speak, and then the officer returns to his patrol car.
Scott exits the vehicle, briefly, and Slager tells him to stay in the car. Scott then gets out of the car, again, and runs away, out of the area the camera could see.
The video, which was released Thursday, also shows a passenger in Scott’s car. The passenger’s identity was not given in a police report obtained by CNN, but another officer responding to the incident said in the report that the passenger was detained and placed in the back seat of a police vehicle.
