Video: South Carolina release police dash cam footage taken moments before shooting

South Carolina have released dash cam footage from police officer Michael Slager’s car moments before he shot an unarmed man, Walter Scott in the US.

The video shows Scott running away after being pulled over.

Slager, the US police officer charged with murder was allowed to stay on the force despite an earlier complaint that he used excessive force against an unarmed man, it has emerged.

When asked about his reaction to learning Michael Slager had been charged with murder, Mario Givens said: “It (the murder) could have been prevented. If they had just listened to me and investigated what happened that night, this man might be alive today.”

Mr Givens said he was woken before dawn one morning in September 2013 by loud banging on the front door of his family’s home in North Charleston, South Carolina.

On his front porch was Patrolman Michael Slager, the officer now charged over the fatal shooting of Walter Scott, 50, following a traffic stop over a broken tail light.

The latest case of a white police officer killing an unarmed black man grabbed international attention this week after a video recorded by a bystander showed Slager firing eight times as Mr Scott ran away.

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