Stories of police brutally against unarmed blacks in the US has become something of a staple these days. Eric Garner and Michael Brown just two of the highest profile in recent months.

Often the officers involved are acquitted, leading to much outrage from the African American community. In the latest case, however, the officer involved has been charged with murder; but after a video of the incident was released.

The officer, from Charleston, South Carolina, is Michael T Slager. The victim, Anthony Scott, was stopped for having a broken rear light. He fled, and the officer chased him to a point where he stunned him with his stun gun.

Apparently that didn’t stop him, so he took off, at which point the officer fires 8 shots in quick succession. He got hit and fell to the ground.

The officer called in the shooting, claiming the victim grabbed his stun gun. Moments later however, as the video shows, he takes the stun gun from where it fell during their initial scuffle and then dropped it near the body.

The video, provided to the New York Times by the person who filmed it, led to the officer being charged.

Scott’s family believe he might have fled because he owed child support, and not for any sinister reason. In any case the officer didn’t try giving chase, just firing off shots in quick succession. His actions after the shooting too point towards a kind of cover-up.

Watch the video below…

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9CtXwIaXD8