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This is how it's going down. This one was just captured on video #WalterScott: image via Ferrari Sheppard @stopbeingfamous, 7 April 2015
The police officer who shot Walter Scott radioed in to claim that Scott had “grabbed my Taser”, six seconds after firing his final shot, despite video suggesting the unarmed man was not in possession of the stun gun at any point, a Guardian analysis has shown.
Syncing police scanner audio with a shocking video –- the eyewitness footage out of South Carolina which led to officer Michael Slager being charged with murder –- raises further questions about whether either of two officers on the video performed any CPR on Scott as was previously claimed by police.
Analysis of the police radio shows Slager, the officer who shot at Scott eight times, making the radio call announcing the shots and alleging the Taser seizure, sounding frantic and breathless at the same time as he walks slowly towards Scott’s body.
“Shots fired. Subject is down. He grabbed my Taser,” the scanner audio from Slager states.
He reaches the body, handcuffs Scott who has his head down to the floor and walks back to the area where it appears an object was dropped and picks up an item from the ground.
At this point a second officer, now identified as Clarence Habersham, arrives on the scene and radios in. Slager then walks back towards the body and radios in stating: “I need to secure my vehicle”. At this point –- over a minute after the last shot is fired -– neither officer appears to have performed CPR on Scott.
Slager then walks and drops the item, which some have speculated is a Taser, next to Scott’s body.
At this point Habersham radios in to say he has detected gunshots to Scott’s chest on the right side. He then radios to say he has detected a gunshot wound to the buttocks. He appears to be pulling Scott’s T-shirt up at this point.
At a press conference on Wednesday North Charleston police chief Eddie Driggers said after watching the video he believed an officer had lifted Scott’s T-shirt to perform “some sort of life-saving procedure”.
But analysis of the video and audio suggests Habersham is actually identifying the gunshot wounds rather than performing any such procedure.
At the end of the video, over two minutes after the last shot is fired, Slager stands over Scott’s body and takes a pulse.
The combination of the video and audio footage shows that the encounter between Slager and Scott started about four and a half minutes before the scenes now seen on televisions around the world.
As Slager began stopping Scott at the intersection of Remount Road and Craig Road at about 9.35am, he radioed the dispatcher to say he was “coming up on a grey ... Mercedes”.
Exactly three minutes later, Slager radioed again to announce he was chasing on foot down Craig, giving his dispatcher a basic description of Scott. “Black male, green shirt, blue pants,” he said.
About 25 seconds later a colleague radioed to say he was “en route” to assist. Ten seconds on, there was another message -– possibly from the same officer –- asking Slager (“223”) “What’s your direction of travel there?”
After he received no response, this officer asked Slager again: “Where you at now?” Eight seconds later, however, there was a clue to why Slager may not have been responding. In a burst of confused radio chatter, an officer can be heard shouting “on the ground!”
The dispatcher had asked all officers to ensure radio silence for matters apart from the Slager-Scott chase. Feidin Santana, a bystander who filmed the shooting on his cellphone, told NBC on Wednesday evening that the pair were struggling on the ground before he began recording.
Another 47 seconds pass before the supporting officer radioed again: “I’m at the pawn shop,” he said. “Where you at now?”
Just three seconds later -– at 9.38am, almost five minutes after Slager announced that he was stopping Scott in his car –- Slager was back on the radio. “223, shots fired,” he said.
“Subject is down. He grabbed my Taser.”
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At what point did this man become "life threatening" ? ?#WalterScott: image via Harbin Da Sharbinar @Anonionaire, 8 April 2015
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WabbitSeason NegroSeason WabbitSeason NegroSeason WabbitSeason NegroSeason NegroSeason NEGROSEASON #WalterScott: image via Nostradeptus @adept2u 7 April 2015
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VIDEO: SC Cop shoots unarmed #WalterScott in the back 8X then plants weapon on him as he dies:#WalterScott: image via Keegan Stephen @KeeganNYC, 7 April 2015
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How many God damn people have to become hashtags before something changes. #WalterScott: image via Bipartisan Report @Bipartisanism, 8 April 2015
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We cannot let them make this about one cop #WalterScott: image via Hal Dockins @HalDockins, 8 April 2015
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This. RT @BlackGirlsWinni #WalterScott served a country that ended up killing him.#RIPWalterScott: image via Trill @houstonbred, 8 April 2015
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REMINDER: #WalterScott: image via Bipartisan Report @Bipartisanism, 8 April 2015
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Church at crossroads on sealevel highway, south of Charleston, South Carolina: photo by Carl Mydans, November 1936 (Farm Security Administration Collection, Library of Congress)
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Look who @DefendMichaelS is following on Twitter -- #WalterScott #RWNJ: image via Rob Groce @regroce, 8 April 2015
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And more of who @DefendMichaelS is following on Twitter #WalterScott: image via Rob Groce @regroce, 8 April 2015
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More of who @DefendMichaelS is following on Twitter - #WalterScott: image via Rob Groce @regroce, 8 April 2015
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Gee, @DefendMichaelS, is there a bigger #FoxNews fan? U want $ to a guy who shot an unarmed man from the back?: image via Rob Groce @regroce, 8 April 2015
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Here is the mug shot of the race soldier #MichaelSlager who was charged with the murder of #WalterScott: image via Tariq Nasheed @tariqnasheed, 7 April 2015
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#KillerCop #MichaelSlagerhas been added to my murdering cops file.#WalterScott #BlackLivesMatter: image via LadyGlenChicagoStyle @ladyglenChicago, 7 April 2015
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#MichaelSlager fears for his life as he shoots #WalterScott: image via Dorian Staten @DorianStaten, 8 April 2015
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NYPD cops and ex-cops spewing racist slurs about #WalterScott and justifying murder even after vid: image via Keegan Stephen @KeeganNYC, 8 April 2015
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Officer #MichaelSlager who murdered #WalterScott had a history of excessive force complaints: image via Shut It Down NYC @ShutItDownNYC, 8 April 2015
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This is the face of a murderer. He is also a police officer. What if it hadn't been caught on tape? #MichaelSlager: image via Trita Parsi @tparsi, 8 April 2015
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Reasons I keep my distance from whites "@scottbpg16: so this is what we’re doing today Twitter? #MichaelSlager": image via Shehu Yahweh @TuckOnTheRise, 8 April 2015
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JUST IN: Councilman: City Should Support "Hard-Working" S.C. Cop #MichaelSlager: image via Shomari Stone @shomaristone, 8 April 2015
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EXCLUSIVE: #MichaelSlager's Attorney Dumped Him As Soon As He Saw Video #DavidAylor: image via Politolizer @Politolizer, 8 April 2015
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You certainly don't want to turn your back to him. #WalterScott #MichaelSlager: image via Cassandra @CassandraRules 8 April 2015
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Video shows officer #MichaelSlager shooting #WalterScott in the back in South Carolina: image via HuffPost BlackVoices @blackvoices. 8 April 2015
This is how it's going down. This one was just captured on video #WalterScott: image via Ferrari Sheppard @stopbeingfamous, 7 April 2015
South Carolina officer radioed in Taser claim six seconds before firing final shot: Analysis of police audio synced with video raises further questions about whether officers performed any CPR on Walter Scott after he was shot eight times: Oliver Laughland, Jon Swaine and Christian Bennett in New York, The Guardian, 8 April 2015
The police officer who shot Walter Scott radioed in to claim that Scott had “grabbed my Taser”, six seconds after firing his final shot, despite video suggesting the unarmed man was not in possession of the stun gun at any point, a Guardian analysis has shown.
Syncing police scanner audio with a shocking video –- the eyewitness footage out of South Carolina which led to officer Michael Slager being charged with murder –- raises further questions about whether either of two officers on the video performed any CPR on Scott as was previously claimed by police.
Analysis of the police radio shows Slager, the officer who shot at Scott eight times, making the radio call announcing the shots and alleging the Taser seizure, sounding frantic and breathless at the same time as he walks slowly towards Scott’s body.
“Shots fired. Subject is down. He grabbed my Taser,” the scanner audio from Slager states.
He reaches the body, handcuffs Scott who has his head down to the floor and walks back to the area where it appears an object was dropped and picks up an item from the ground.
At this point a second officer, now identified as Clarence Habersham, arrives on the scene and radios in. Slager then walks back towards the body and radios in stating: “I need to secure my vehicle”. At this point –- over a minute after the last shot is fired -– neither officer appears to have performed CPR on Scott.
Slager then walks and drops the item, which some have speculated is a Taser, next to Scott’s body.
At this point Habersham radios in to say he has detected gunshots to Scott’s chest on the right side. He then radios to say he has detected a gunshot wound to the buttocks. He appears to be pulling Scott’s T-shirt up at this point.
At a press conference on Wednesday North Charleston police chief Eddie Driggers said after watching the video he believed an officer had lifted Scott’s T-shirt to perform “some sort of life-saving procedure”.
But analysis of the video and audio suggests Habersham is actually identifying the gunshot wounds rather than performing any such procedure.
At the end of the video, over two minutes after the last shot is fired, Slager stands over Scott’s body and takes a pulse.
The combination of the video and audio footage shows that the encounter between Slager and Scott started about four and a half minutes before the scenes now seen on televisions around the world.
As Slager began stopping Scott at the intersection of Remount Road and Craig Road at about 9.35am, he radioed the dispatcher to say he was “coming up on a grey ... Mercedes”.
Exactly three minutes later, Slager radioed again to announce he was chasing on foot down Craig, giving his dispatcher a basic description of Scott. “Black male, green shirt, blue pants,” he said.
About 25 seconds later a colleague radioed to say he was “en route” to assist. Ten seconds on, there was another message -– possibly from the same officer –- asking Slager (“223”) “What’s your direction of travel there?”
After he received no response, this officer asked Slager again: “Where you at now?” Eight seconds later, however, there was a clue to why Slager may not have been responding. In a burst of confused radio chatter, an officer can be heard shouting “on the ground!”
The dispatcher had asked all officers to ensure radio silence for matters apart from the Slager-Scott chase. Feidin Santana, a bystander who filmed the shooting on his cellphone, told NBC on Wednesday evening that the pair were struggling on the ground before he began recording.
Another 47 seconds pass before the supporting officer radioed again: “I’m at the pawn shop,” he said. “Where you at now?”
Just three seconds later -– at 9.38am, almost five minutes after Slager announced that he was stopping Scott in his car –- Slager was back on the radio. “223, shots fired,” he said.
“Subject is down. He grabbed my Taser.”
At what point did this man become "life threatening" ? ?#WalterScott: image via Harbin Da Sharbinar @Anonionaire, 8 April 2015
WabbitSeason NegroSeason WabbitSeason NegroSeason WabbitSeason NegroSeason NegroSeason NEGROSEASON #WalterScott: image via Nostradeptus @adept2u 7 April 2015
VIDEO: SC Cop shoots unarmed #WalterScott in the back 8X then plants weapon on him as he dies:#WalterScott: image via Keegan Stephen @KeeganNYC, 7 April 2015
How many God damn people have to become hashtags before something changes. #WalterScott: image via Bipartisan Report @Bipartisanism, 8 April 2015
We cannot let them make this about one cop #WalterScott: image via Hal Dockins @HalDockins, 8 April 2015
This. RT @BlackGirlsWinni #WalterScott served a country that ended up killing him.#RIPWalterScott: image via Trill @houstonbred, 8 April 2015
REMINDER: #WalterScott: image via Bipartisan Report @Bipartisanism, 8 April 2015
RobertCreeley: America: "Give back / what we are..."
porchflag (Des Moines, Iowa): photo by greg (It'sGreg), 6 April 2014
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America, you ode for reality!
Give back the people you took.
Let the sun shine again
on the four corners of the world
you thought of first but do not
own, or keep like a convenience.
People are your own word, you
invented that locus and term.
Here, you said and say, is
where we are. Give back
what we are, these people you made,
us, and nowhere but you to be.
Give back the people you took.
Let the sun shine again
on the four corners of the world
you thought of first but do not
own, or keep like a convenience.
People are your own word, you
invented that locus and term.
Here, you said and say, is
where we are. Give back
what we are, these people you made,
us, and nowhere but you to be.
Robert Creeley (192-2005): America, from Pieces (1969)
Charleston, South Carolina: photographer unknown, US Housing Authority, 1933 (Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library)
Church at crossroads on sealevel highway, south of Charleston, South Carolina: photo by Carl Mydans, November 1936 (Farm Security Administration Collection, Library of Congress)
Killerblob (Los Angeles): photo by anotherswede ON A BREAK, 7 July 2013
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Untitled (Mount Desert, Maine): photo by Patrick Joust, June 2013
Untitled (Mount Desert, Maine): photo by Patrick Joust, June 2013
America: Death Never Sleeps Alone
Look who @DefendMichaelS is following on Twitter -- #WalterScott #RWNJ: image via Rob Groce @regroce, 8 April 2015
And more of who @DefendMichaelS is following on Twitter #WalterScott: image via Rob Groce @regroce, 8 April 2015
More of who @DefendMichaelS is following on Twitter - #WalterScott: image via Rob Groce @regroce, 8 April 2015
More of who @DefendMichaelS is following on Twitter - #WalterScott: image via Rob Groce @regroce, 8 April 2015
Gee, @DefendMichaelS, is there a bigger #FoxNews fan? U want $ to a guy who shot an unarmed man from the back?: image via Rob Groce @regroce, 8 April 2015
Race Soldier
Here is the mug shot of the race soldier #MichaelSlager who was charged with the murder of #WalterScott: image via Tariq Nasheed @tariqnasheed, 7 April 2015
#KillerCop #MichaelSlagerhas been added to my murdering cops file.#WalterScott #BlackLivesMatter: image via LadyGlenChicagoStyle @ladyglenChicago, 7 April 2015
#MichaelSlager fears for his life as he shoots #WalterScott: image via Dorian Staten @DorianStaten, 8 April 2015
NYPD cops and ex-cops spewing racist slurs about #WalterScott and justifying murder even after vid: image via Keegan Stephen @KeeganNYC, 8 April 2015
Officer #MichaelSlager who murdered #WalterScott had a history of excessive force complaints: image via Shut It Down NYC @ShutItDownNYC, 8 April 2015
This is the face of a murderer. He is also a police officer. What if it hadn't been caught on tape? #MichaelSlager: image via Trita Parsi @tparsi, 8 April 2015
Reasons I keep my distance from whites "@scottbpg16: so this is what we’re doing today Twitter? #MichaelSlager": image via Shehu Yahweh @TuckOnTheRise, 8 April 2015
JUST IN: Councilman: City Should Support "Hard-Working" S.C. Cop #MichaelSlager: image via Shomari Stone @shomaristone, 8 April 2015
EXCLUSIVE: #MichaelSlager's Attorney Dumped Him As Soon As He Saw Video #DavidAylor: image via Politolizer @Politolizer, 8 April 2015
You certainly don't want to turn your back to him. #WalterScott #MichaelSlager: image via Cassandra @CassandraRules 8 April 2015
Video shows officer #MichaelSlager shooting #WalterScott in the back in South Carolina: image via HuffPost BlackVoices @blackvoices. 8 April 2015