SC paper sues over refusal to release dashcam video
Source: Associated Press
SC paper sues over refusal to release dashcam video
| June 4, 2015
AIKEN, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina newspaper is suing state officials and the city of North Augusta for refusing to release the dashboard camera video of a fatal police shooting.
The lawsuit filed Thursday said the video is public record and has been released to attorneys for officer Justin Craven and the dead driver, Ernest Satterwhite.
The Aiken Standard requested the video in April and was denied. The Associated Press' request for the video seven months earlier was also rejected as both the State Law Enforcement Division and North Augusta said it could jeopardize Craven's trial for discharging a firearm into a vehicle. AP's lawyer Brian Barrett says the news organization plans to join the suit.
Mark Keel is chief of the law enforcement division. He told the AP he released video in other cases because it didn't show enough to affect the trial.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/SC-paper-sues-over-refusal-to-release-dashcam-6308126.php
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Earlier article:
Ernest Satterwhite: Second South Carolina Cop Charged With Shooting Black Man
3:54pm April 8, 2015
The Ernest Satterwhite Case. A 2nd South Carolina police officer was charged in the 2014 shooting death of 68 year-old Ernest Satterwhite in February 2014.
According to investigators on the case and as reported by the Washington Post, Officer Justin Craven, 25, “attempted to make a traffic stop for a suspected DUI, Satterwhite, 68, led the officer on a car chase from North Augusta to Satterwhite’s home, miles away in Edgefield County.”
Somehow Craven ended up shooting Satterwhite, who was unarmed, through his car door. The charges against Craven were announced on the same day that North Charleston Police Officer Michael Slager was charged with murder in the shooting death of 50 year-old Walter Scott.
A shocking video of Slager shooting Scott eight times in the back as he fled from Slager has gone predictably viral. Scott, just like Satterwhite, was approached by the officer who killed him during a traffic stop for a minor violation.
More:
http://politic365.com/2015/04/08/ernest-satterwhite-second-south-carolina-cop-charged-with-shooting-black-man/
