Kelvin Mitchell
Digital Journalism & Social Media
Dr. Lewis
5/4/15
In the peaceful city also my hometown of Charleston south Carolina was disturbed with a horrible shooting in
North Charleston to local residence Walter Scott. It all happen with Walter Scott being stopped by police
officer Michael Slager who is 33. This shooting took place on April 4, 2015 Walter Scott who was 50years
old in the case of his shooting and was stopped by Slager at a traffic light which pulled him over because of
brake light malfunctions. The story told by the pedestrian Feidin Santana and was captured on his phone he
said he saw Walter Scott run out of his car and then he was tasered, and he continued to run an then he was
fatally shot 8 times by police officer Michael Slager. On CNN they show a video that shows Michael Slager
speeding and driving on the police camp after he heard shots and he then stopped Walter Scott because of
his brake light. The officer then ran went back to the car to get information on the victim then Walter Scott
got out an ran because the officer found that he had a warrant for not paying child support.
In the video you could hear officer Michael Slager say, "Get on the ground one time then after they he yells
Taser, Taser!"Cnn then explains that Michael Slager didn't use the taser properly and Scott was up running
again. After that Scott was shot fatally by the officer in his back because he was trying to escape. Santana
said, "Walter Scott wasn't even trying to fight the police offer he was just trying to get away after the taser
and then he was shot." Walter Scott was just buried and people all over Charleston mourned in his death as
this was a case justice in America finally being served. Other articles that I saw said something different in Slager's defense, the attorney said they he cannot be charged with the death penalty because what he did was not against South Carolina death penalty rules.
So he would not be charged to that degree but he is sitting in jail right now waiting and also on suicide
watch because they have no idea if he is trying to commit suicide for his doings. The damage that was done
with this shooting is lately blacks have been being harassed by police officers and being killed with cases of
Trayvon Martin, going all the way back to Emmett Till to who was killed by whites. For some time now there has been that tension between whites and blacks because blacks are getting fed up and tired of mistreatment.
Blacks already earned their right to freedom so why should we
still be fighting for it. For years we have been oppressed and a time for us to say enough is enough. Act like
this un American and inhuman and as Americans we have earned that right to live by the same laws and
regulations as the white man. This shooting goes to show you there is still and unresolved issue between
African Americans and Whites which needs to be resolved that's why African Americans are so much in
anger. If it wasn't for the video evidence of the witness justice would not be served and this case would turn
into another unsolved or unjustified story against a innocent black man in America.
