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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. —
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charged with murder in the shooting
death of a black man can be heard tell-
ing his supervisor twice that he didn’t
understand why the man ran away, ac-
cording to dashcam video.
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April 4 shooting death of Walter Scott,
50, who was buried over the weekend.
The shooting happened after Slager
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Scott was behind some $18,000 in
his child support payments, and family
members have said he may have run be-
cause he was worried about going back
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arrest.
The shooting was captured on a cell-
phone camera by a man passing by and
became the latest example nationally of
an unarmed black man shot by a white
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The shooting was not captured by
Slager’s dashboard camera, which
shows what appears to be a routine traf-
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eight times at Scott.
SLED has released almost 13 hours
of dashcam video from the cruisers of
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scene.
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that the actions of all North Charleston
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On one video, Slager can be heard
answering a call on his cellphone.
“Everything’s OK, OK?” he tells the
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He also tells the caller: “He grabbed
my Taser, yeah. He was running from
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shooting that Scott had tried to take his
Taser, and the man who recorded the
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The Rev. Al Sharpton, right, visits a makeshift memorial where Walter
Scott was fatally shot by a police officer after he fled a traffic stop, April
12 in North Charleston, S.C. The officer, Michael Thomas Slager, has been
fired and charged with murder.
shooting on his cellphone said he started
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Slager can later be heard on the video
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his supervisor.
“I’m sure SLED will be on the
way,” the supervisor says. “Once they
get here, it will be real quick. They’re
going to tell you you’ll be off a couple
of days, we’ll come back and interview
you. They’re not going to ask you any
questions right now. They’ll take your
weapon and we’ll go from there.”
The supervisor suggests to Slager,
“When you get home it would proba-
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your thoughts on what happened — the
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“It’s pumping,” Slager responds, and
they both laugh.
Then there is a pause for a few sec-
onds, and Slager speaks again, softly:
“I don’t understand why he took off
like that.”
Another short pause.
“I don’t understand why he’d run.”
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testers blocked a main avenue in North
Charleston and the entrance to City Hall.
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appeared in front of City Hall, calling
for a special prosecutor to investigate
the incident. He said his group will do
its own investigation and hold a national
town hall meeting next weekend on race
and police practices.
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brought a $40 million lawsuit alleg-
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County used excessive force and false-
ly arrested innocent bystanders to quell
widespread unrest after the fatal shoot-
ing of a black 18-year-old man by a
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brought in South Carolina depends on
what his investigation turns up.
Republican Rubio is running for president
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Rubio entered the presiden-
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the nation a younger genera-
tion of leadership that breaks
free of ideas “stuck in the
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Democratic favorite Hillary
Rodham Clinton and his one-
time Republican mentor, for-
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ner that proclaimed “A New
American Century” and re-
peating that refrain through-
out his kickoff speech, the
43-year-old Cuban-Amer-
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a Republican presidential
candidate to take on two of
America’s political dynas-
ties. In doing so, he bet heav-
ily on the electorate’s frustra-
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about what laws we are go-
ing to pass,” Rubio told his
evening rally. “It is a genera-
tional choice about what kind
of country we will be.”
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Florida Sen. Marco Rubio smiles during his announce-
ment he is running for the Republican nomination, at a
rally Monday in Miami.
He said it’s also a choice
between the haves and have-
nots, nodding to his own up-
bringing by working-class
parents.
“I live an exceptional
country where the son of a
bartender and a maid can
have the same dreams and
the same future as those who
come from power and privi-
lege.”
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term Republican from Flor-
ida spoke to his top donors
and told them many families
feel the American Dream
is slipping away and young
Americans face unequal op-
portunities. He’s banking on
the hope that he, alone among
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inroads with groups that have
long eluded Republicans —
young people, minorities and
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nity to cast the presidential
contest as one between a
fresh face representing a
new generation of leadership
and familiar faces harking
back decades — namely, the
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Supporters began lining
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hours before the public kick-
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plans future presentations as
his campaign gets underway.
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