On a spring morning in North Charleston, South Carolina, a routine traffic stop escalated into a fatal encounter that would capture the nation's attention. Walter Lamar Scott, a 50-year-old Black man, was behind the wheel of his 1991 Mercedes on April 4, 2015, when he was pulled over by North Charleston police officer Michael Slager for a non-functioning brake light. Dashcam footage shows the initial interaction between the two men, but the situation quickly unraveled. Scott exited his vehicle a
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