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On the Media

The Mistrial of Michael Slager

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🗓️ 7 December 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

After a mistrial in a police shooting case, we revisit interviews with Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors and former police officer Eugene O'Donnell.

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0:00.0

I'm Brooke Gladstone. This week, a mistrial was declared in the case of Michael Slager, the white police officer who shot unarmed black man Walter Scott in the back as he ran from a traffic stop. Scott's death was caught on a passerby's phone.

0:19.0

Slager's original testimony that Scott grabbed his taser and was threatening him

0:23.5

fell apart when the video surfaced. In it, Scott is clearly seen running away while Slager takes

0:30.4

aim and... It's been three years since the social movement Black Lives Matter came into being.

0:43.4

Its protests of police killings of unarmed black people has put the group at odds with police unions, incoming President Donald Trump.

0:51.7

When you're calling death to police and to kill the police, essentially, which is what they said,

0:57.5

that's a real big problem.

0:59.4

And the likes of Rush Limbaugh.

1:01.2

They're a terrorist group.

1:02.3

They're quickly becoming a terrorist group committing hate crimes.

1:06.6

This summer, the White House rejected a petition signed by more than 141,000 people,

1:13.2

urging it to formally recognize Black Lives Matter as a terrorist group.

1:19.0

Given the news this week of the mistrial, we thought we'd replay our July interview with Patrice Cullors,

1:25.3

a co-founder and leading voice in the Black Lives Matter movement.

1:29.3

We spoke to her after the deaths of five police officers at the hands of a black sniper in Dallas

1:35.1

at a Black Lives Matter protest. I asked for her reaction to Milwaukee's Black County Sheriff

1:41.6

David Clark's remarks on CNN.

1:51.8

This anti-cop sentiment from this hateful ideology called Black Lives Matter has fueled this rage against the American police officer.

1:53.9

Our movement has never called for the execution of law enforcement. Never. Yet many want to

1:58.8

place the blame at our feet. There is a historical legacy of undermining

2:04.3

black communities who stand up and fight for our right to really be a part of this American

2:11.1

democracy. So tell me what Black Lives Matter does advocate.

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