A Murder Conviction in the Walter Scott Case Seemed Like a Sure Thing. Here’s Why It Wasn’t — TIME

This was the one case that seemed like a sure thing. A white police officer fires eight times at an unarmed black man who is fleeing, his back turned. The officer even picks up his Taser afterwards and places it alongside the man’s prone body, in what appeared to some as an attempt to frame…

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