Walter Scott Shooting Follows Michael Brown and Other Fatal Cop Encounters – NBC News.com

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April 8, 2015 by voiceoftruthusa

The deadly cop-involved shooting in North Charleston, South Carolina, of an apparently unarmed black man has has become the latest — and one of the most visually shocking — in a wave of fatal police confrontations gaining national attention.

Last August’s shooting death of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, was the most prominent in years — and touched off nightly unrest and a demand for police accountability in the majority black city, as well as invigorating a nationwide movement.

But Saturday’s killing of 50-year-old Walter Scott yielded an uncommon outcome: The officer in the shooting, Michael Slager, was arrested Tuesday for murder. It is a rare criminal charge in these unarmed encounters.

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