article_snippet.sent: (CNN)The shootings' main similarity is that the officer was white and the victim was black and unarmed.
article_snippet.sent: Outside of that, the highly publicized police shootings in Ferguson and North Charleston bear only mild resemblance.
article_snippet.sent: So what's changed between the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in August, and that of Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina, last weekend?
article_snippet.sent: And did the backlash and publicity of Ferguson Ferguson shooting influence the handling of the North Charleston incident?
article_snippet.sent: It's tough to say for sure, but here are some of the stark differences in the cases, the lessons learned by both police and the public, and concrete changes that could help mend tensions in the future.
article_snippet.sent: Black people didn't march and fight and struggle to have black officers kill us and black officers beat us and black officers
article_snippet.sent: Ferguson: The largely peaceful protests in Ferguson were marred by looting, arson and even shootings.
article_snippet.sent: And even after Ferguson's police chief resigned last month, two officers were shot during a protest at the Ferguson Police Department.
article_snippet.sent: North Charleston: After Scott was killed in South Carolina over the weekend, protests in North Charleston have been peaceful so far.
highlights_snippet.sent: Protests in South Carolina have been calm compared to the violence in Ferguson .
  