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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C.
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the man to surrender.
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family, told The Associated Press. “We
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Chief Eddie Driggers said.
The news conference was meant to
quiet the uproar, but both the mayor and
chief were interrupted by chants of “no
justice, no peace” and other shouted ques-
tions they said they could not answer.
Outside City Hall, local organizer
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“Eight shots in the back!” through a
bullhorn. The crowd yelled, “In the
back!” in response, aiming to coin a
new phrase to supplant the “hands up,
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In this April 4 frame from video provided by Attorney L. Chris Stewart
representing the family of Walter Lamer Scott, Scott runs away from city
patrolman Michael Thomas Slager, right, in North Charleston, S.C.
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death last summer of an unarmed black 18-year-old.
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safeguard the community as a whole,” said Greg Gilbertson, a police practic-
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to keep protests peaceful, saying the
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a chain-link fence into the empty lot
where Scott died.
That man, Fayden Santana, told
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proached the scene because he noticed
Slager controlling Scott on the ground
and heard the sound of a Taser before
Scott got loose and ran away.
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control of Scott. And Scott was trying
just to get away from the Taser.”
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tigation to state law enforcement. The
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eo is “awfully hard to watch” and said
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appears to hit Scott with a Taser. Scott
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cy for what his lawyer says
was a crime masterminded
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on all 30 counts against him,
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ror attack with his now-dead
older brother, Tamerlan.
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on April 15, 2013, killed
three spectators and wound-
ed more than 260 other peo-
ple, turning the traditionally
celebratory home stretch of
the world-famous race into a
scene of carnage and putting
the city on edge for days.
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sponsible not only for those
deaths but for the killing of
a Massachusetts Institute of
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who was gunned down days
later.
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said Sydney Corcoran, who
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peared “arrogant” and un-
interested during the trial,
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when she saw no remorse
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were read. She refused to
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but she rejected the defense
argument that he was simply
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which could begin as ear-
ly as Monday, the jury will
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should get the death penalty
or spend the rest of his life
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a death sentence, defense
attorney Judy Clarke has
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icalized brother. She repeat-
edly referred to Dzhokhar
— then 19 — as a “kid” and
a “teenager.”
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she told the jury during clos-
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er, portrayed the brothers
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from Russia more than a de-
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its wars in Muslim coun-
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on both their computers,
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during a chaotic getaway at-
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children from a polygamous
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made in the standoff.
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October 2013, after a
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of people are authorized
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complicates the management
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