Who was Walter Scott
Loren Anderson
Summary: The police killing of Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina is placed in the context of institutionalized racism and the origins of police in the night watch and the slave patrol — Editors
This is the question mainstream news outlets ask as soon as a tragedy like this strikes. People want to know whether the fate was deserved (a fate like this could never be deserved). Was Walter Scott a good man or a bad man? Could excessive police violence be justified? Should we mourn this man who ran from a police officer and was shot in the back trying to get away? Was justice served or was it thwarted, and an injustice put in its place?
In the first hours after Office Michael Slager (now formerly) of the North Charleston, South Carolina police