Stop senseless police violence
4/16/2015, 11:05 a.m.
In North Charleston, S.C., a video showed a police officer firing repeated shots at a fleeing unarmed black man, Walter Scott, who died from the incident.
This is just the latest in a series of incidents where some police officers have taken their authority too far.
If you have a short memory, some other black males also have been killed for no reason. Their names are Michael Brown in Ferguson. Mo., 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio, and Eric Garner in New York City, who was choked to death.
These nonsense killings need to stop immediately. If it were not for the video taken by a bystander with a cell phone camera, the officer in South Carolina would have
gotten away with it. Who knows how many killings have happened like this and the officer goes unpunished.
Thank God this officer was videotaped and hopefully will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Suppos- edly, he fired eight shots at Mr. Scott and five connected. Mr. Scott’s mother said on television that she could not watch the entire video because it reminded her of someone hunting an animal.
How many more must die before this senseless cycle stops?
ERNEST PARKER JR.
Richmond
