South Carolina legislators approve body cameras for police

[Wireless News]

By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - South Carolina lawmakers-unanimously passed a measure on Wednesday that will require all state and local law enforcement officers to be equipped with body cameras. As part of its vote, the House of Representatives agreed to name the bill for Walter Scott, a black man who was shot and killed as he ran away from a white police officer in North Charleston after a traffic stop last month. The officer, Michael Slager, has since been fired from the force and charged with murder in Scott's death. "We lost a life in North Charleston and had it not been recorded by someone's cell phone, we had officers who we have entrusted our lives to tell blatant lies," Representative John Richard King, a Democrat, said during the House debate.

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