Today people are rallying in North Charleston, South Carolina, after a video surfaced yesterday showing a white police officer, Michael Slager, shooting and killing Walter Scott, an unarmed black man.
The Charleston chapter of Black Lives Matter told Sarah McCammon, a reporter on the scene from Georgia Public Broadcasting, that the group existed before this lethal shooting Saturday, but felt compelled today to organize after seeing the video and after Officer Slager was charged with murder in Scott’s death.
McCammon tells Here & Now’s Robin Young about the rally, the upcoming investigation and how North Charleston is different than its better known Southern neighbor, Charleston.
Guest
- Sarah McCammon, Savannah bureau chief and local host of All Things Considered at Georgia Public Broadcasting. She tweets @sarahmccammon.
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