article_snippet.sent: This time the stage was set in North Charleston, South Carolina, a city of about 100,000 people.
article_snippet.sent: North Charleston police force is about 80% white, with a population of 47% black and 37% white in North Charleston.
article_snippet.sent: Officer Michael Slager's police force is 94% white (only three of the 53 police officers are black), and North Charleston is 67% black and 29% white.
article_snippet.sent: Both North Charleston and Officer Michael Slager have police forces that are not representative of the population North Charleston and Ferguson serve, yet because of a video North Charleston police force got in front of the story.
article_snippet.sent: I'm not sure North Charleston gets here without learning something from the mistakes of Officer Michael Slager.
article_snippet.sent: I wonder how many whites in North Charleston with broken taillights get pulled over?
article_snippet.sent: Yes, the North Charleston officials behaved differently than the officials in Officer Michael Slager.
article_snippet.sent: It is that perhaps the North Charleston officials are better than those in Officer Michael Slager when it comes to racially charged situations -- especially given the instructive fallout from Brown's shooting.
highlights_snippet.sent: With hindsight from Dorothy Brown case, North Charleston did the right thing with arrest .