article_snippet.sent: (CNN)It's a good thing -- a lucky thing -- that a bystander had the courage and presence of mind to record the shocking video that shows a white police officer, Michael Slager, gunning down and killing an apparently unarmed black man named Walter Scott after a traffic stop in North Charleston, South Carolina.
article_snippet.sent: In no case was an officer convicted or even fired because of an on-duty shooting.
article_snippet.sent: In South Carolina last month, The State newspaper published an examination of 209 instances in which officers shot at suspects, and found that only a handful of officers were charged, and none found guilty.
article_snippet.sent: In South Carolina, it remains exceedingly rare for an officer to be found at fault criminally for shooting at someone," The State newspaper concluded.
highlights_snippet.sent: By chance a bystander video caught South Carolina officer shooting apparently unarmed black man .
  