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CRIME AND CRIMINALS: MURDER HOMICIDE :
POLICE BRUTALITY :
UNITED STATES: STATES: SOUTH CAROLINA :
VIDEOS:
Video of Shooting Caught Police Propaganda Machine in Action
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Video of Shooting Caught Police Propaganda Machine in Action
By Andrew Jerell Jones
The Intercept
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/09/
shooting-video-exposes-police-propaganda-in-action/
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/ll3ob4q
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A video supplied to The New York Times, showing the shooting death of
50-year-old Walter Scott at the hands of a South Carolina police officer,
appears on first viewing to be the latest example of an unarmed black
person killed unnecessarily by a white cop.
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But its so much more than that. Because three days elapsed between the
shooting and the publication of the video of the shooting, the Scott
incident became an illuminating case study in the routinized process
through which police officers, departments and attorneys frame the use of
deadly force by American cops in the most sympathetic possible terms,
often claiming fear of the very people they killed. In the days after the
shooting, the police version of events an utterly typical example of the
form was trotted out, only to be sharply contradicted when the video
surfaced. In most cases like this, there is no video, no definitive,
undisputed record of much of what happened, and thus no way to rebut
inaccurate statements by the police.
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The first report of the Saturday afternoon incident, from Charlestons The
Post and Courier, followed the usual script: The police departments story
portrayed the victim as behaving dangerously, in this case, purportedly
struggling to take an officers Taser as part of a violent altercation.
Family and friends of the slain black victim mourned his loss and
questioned the narrative offered by authorities.
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The pro-police spin continued two days later, when a lawyer for Michael
Slager, the officer who shot Scott, said Scott tried to overpower his
client, who felt threatened and reached for his department-issued firearm
and fired his weapon. Scotts family and allies could do little more than
note that Scott was unarmed, and call for the truth to somehow emerge.
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That was before the video of the incident from a brave soul now
identified as 23-year-old Feidin Santana got into the hands of the Scott
family. And in one dramatic instance, a cops tale of fearing for his life
was replaced with a clear recording of the truth a truth so damning it
appears to have motivated Slagers lawyer to stop representing the officer
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Feared for my life has become a crutch for law enforcement in cases where
an officer has used deadly force, especially deadly force against people
of color and particularly when those people are black and unarmed. It
conjures the possibility, even the likelihood, of an exoneration, serving
as a sort of Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice chant whenever there is
no deadly weapon in the hands of the person just killed. The officers who
shot unarmed Michael Brown in Ferguson last year and unarmed Sean Bell in
New York in 2007 famously claimed they feared for their safety, to take
just two recent examples.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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