"If it had happened to someone in my family, I would like to know the truth. That's why I sent them this video."
He speaks for the first time. The author of the video, in which we see a white police officer shooting a black man in North Charleston, South Carolina, spoke in an interview with NBC. Deeply affected by this episode, Feidin Santana explains why he filmed and transmitted the images to the relatives of the victim.
'' If it had happened to someone in my family, I would like to know the truth. That's why I sent them this video, '' he says. And when the reporter asked him he feared for his own safety, he replied: '' Yes, that's for sure. ''
This drama, in addition to other police misconduct against the black community, a little further exacerbates racial tensions in the United States. Protesters gathered outside the town hall from North Charleston to shout their ras-le-bol: '' We are oppressed, beaten, silenced. But today we wake up and say 'never again'!
and imprisoned. He faces the death penalty or 30 years in prison. According to the New York Times, he said, after the shooting, the victim had taken his taser. But the images of the scene appear to dispute this version.
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