Another day another video of a black man being gunned down by the police. This time in South Carolina.

Courtesy of the Daily Beast:  

Walter Scott’s death at the hands of a cop captured on video is a nightmarish combination of the killings of other black men by white police from Ferguson to Staten Island and beyond. 

Like Eric Garner, who was choked to death for selling illegal cigarettes, Scott’s fatal encounter with Patrolman Michael Slager came as a result of a petty offense: a dead brake light on Scott’s car. 

Like Michael Brown, Scott was unarmed and was dozens of feet away from the police officer when he was shot to death. 

Like the cops in almost every “officer-involved shooting,” Slager said he feared for his life. 

Unlike all of those incidents, there is a video that undeniably shows a man who did nothing to warrant the eight shots in the back he took from Slager’s gun.

The officer, Michale Slager, has now been charged with murder, and with this video as evidence, might actually be convicted.

This story broke late the in the afternoon, and when I saw it I immediately thought "Well here we go again."

I watched Chris Hayes last night who wondered out loud whether or not THIS police officer would have ultimately filed his police report and gone on with his life, if there had NOT been video that demonstrated that he lied about the shooting.

And he further wondered just how many unjustified police shootings of black men in this country take place with nobody ever being the wiser.

I have to admit as a white man growing up so far from places where this kind of thing takes place, I have often believed that the black community exaggerated their fear of the police.

Well I have to tell you these videos lately have convinced me that if anything the black community has minimized the threat.