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May 28, 2015

South Carolina: Cop Indicted for Killing of Unarmed 68-Year-Old Black Man 
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In South Carolina, a grand jury has indicted a white police officer who
fatally shot an unarmed 68-year-old African-American man in his own
driveway. Former North Augusta police officer Justin Craven was indicted
on a lesser felony charge of firing his gun into an occupied vehicle,
after a grand jury previously refused to indict him for voluntary
manslaughter. Authorities say Craven chased Ernest Satterwhite to his
home, then fired repeatedly through Satterwhite's car window almost
immediately after he stopped in his driveway. Craven claimed Satterwhite
reached for his gun. Police have refused to release dashboard camera
footage of the shooting.

 

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