article_snippet.sent: (CNN)On Tuesday, a white police officer in North Charleston, South Carolina, was charged with murder for shooting an unarmed black man in the back.
article_snippet.sent: The Post and Courier reported that the FBI has opened an investigation into the shooting death along with the State Law Enforcement Division, while the South Carolina attorney general is investigating possible civil rights violations.
article_snippet.sent: But an unarmed black man was shot like a runaway slave.
article_snippet.sent: Most police fatal shootings do not result in indictments because prosecutors conclude Most police fatal shootings are justifiable.  
article_snippet.sent: The police officer can always plant a gun on the suspect an unarmed black man shot to death, or like Officer Michael Slager, apparently place a Taser near Scott's body and concoct some story that an unarmed black man life was in danger.
article_snippet.sent: I don't think that all police officers are bad cops, but there are some bad ones out there.
article_snippet.sent: Although the black community and others have been aware for years of the problem of police brutality, through personal experience and anecdotes, the data confirm that police use of deadly force is a black and white issue.
article_snippet.sent: Otherwise, the bogus narrative of the good white cop protecting himself from the menacing black thug may have prevailed.
article_snippet.sent: What happened in North Charleston tells us the epidemic of police deadly force has not died.  
article_snippet.sent: The taking of black lives by the police remains a crisis situation in America that must be addressed, because #BlackLivesMatter.
highlights_snippet.sent: Officer Michael Slager is charged with killing an unarmed black man in the back .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: David Love: What happened tells us the epidemic of police deadly force against black people continues .