and respond to the threats in real time: there will be a viewing party here in town, to watch the championship game, hosted by the columbia clemson club, it is taking place at the hickory tavern. kickoff is at 8:30. before the game, you watch our clemson championship bound special, it hairs monday night at airs monday night at 7:30. the if the tigers win it all, we have the first view of what that shirt will look like. this is the design that s being printed here in columbia, the shirt says simply perfect. best season in college football history. some of you may think it s a jinks to print shirts early before the game is played, but kevin shumaker says that s not the case. hear that from time to time, people get nervous when we have designs made, but in order to get approved through the have to do the design before the game happening, and everybody who is selling one o o these is already printing the shirt to make sure it prints correctly on the press so it has no effec
this is aljazeera america live from new york city. i m steph as i. this morning a white south carolina police officer is in jail charged with murder for shooting and killing a black man. the officer said he felt thread understand but a video appears to contradict that, showing the moment the officer shot the man trying to run away. we have more details. a lot of people waking up and watching this video. the surfacing of that video is a bombshell development that the officer had originally reported as justified. it all started over a minor traffic infraction. saturday, what started as a routine traffic stop for a broken tail light ended with officer michael slager shooting and killing walter scott the driver. at the time, local citizens in south carolina called for calm. i don t want this to become another ferguson. i don t want more lives to be taken. newly released video seems to indicate otherwise, eight shots fired at a fleeing scott. he falls to the ground. thou
welcome to al jazeera america, i m stephanie sy. outrage in south carolina this morning over the shooting of a black man by a white police officer. protesters gathered a short time ago in front of north charleston city hall demanding justice for walter scott. we ain t going to take this any longer. you cannot continue to kill young people and especially black people. all lives matter but especially black lives matter. we have been treated like cattle for years, and it s not going to continue. scott was 50 years old. he was shot over the weekend by an officer. the officer said the felt threatened and that scott had grabbed the officer s taser, but a bystander s video paints a different story. reporter: saturday what started as a routine traffic stop for a broken taillight ended with this officer shooting and killing the driver 50-year-old walter scott. at the time local citizens called for calm. i don t want this to become an ferguson. i don t want any more lives to
thorough investigation. we ask that you have your questions. be patient. we have ten minutes worth of time for questions for both mayor sunny as well as chief eddie triggers. and there will be numerous people that will be joining us here in the room as well. without any further adu i ll introduce the mayor and chief triggers. good afternoon, thank you ladies and gentlemen, for joining us for this press conference. i will tell you that the chief and i along with my wife, visited the family this morning. a wonderful down-to-earth family, a wonderful group of people. we let them know how we feel about their loss, how bad it was, and we do not condone wrong. it doesn t matter who it is. we re interest to support them, if we can in the future. the officer that was terminated his wife is eight months pregnant and while she he s been terminated, the city is going to continue to cover the insurance on her for the baby until after the baby is born. we think that is the humane thin
anything like don t interact physically and pull out a camera. not only new yorkers getting abused by police, everywhere. i hope it gives people the coverage to not be courage to not be scared. it is a lot of he said/she said. amy: while no police officers were indicted for eric garner s death, the man who filmed the attack, ramsey orta, is now locked up in jail. he was first arrested the day after the coroner declared garner s death homicide. his mother brother, and wife have all been arrested. we will speak to his at and the family attorney. we will also look at the debate over growing calls to require body cameras for police officers. and we will speak to a yemeni-american man who had to escape yemen by sea after the u.s. state department refused to help citizens evacuate after the saudi-led attack began. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. a federal jury has found dzhokhar tsarnaev guilty