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The unidentified bystander whose cellphone video of a police shooting in South Carolina put an officer in jail on a murder charge has come forward and explained why he started recording the crime scene.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Graphic videos have surfaced previously that kindled outrage over police use of force - the Rodney King beating in Los Angeles, last year's chokehold death in New York City. The new video from South Carolina is perhaps the most striking yet - its depiction of a fleeing, unarmed black man being shot in the back by a white policeman so vivid that a murder charge came swiftly. Read M

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The law gives police officers latitude to use deadly force when they feel physically endangered, but there's far less legal flexibility when it comes to opening fire at fleeing individuals.

BRIDGETON, N.J. (AP) — Roughly 200 people have gathered in a southern New Jersey town to protest a recent fatal police shooting.

You've heard about it, now watch it for yourself. Caught on the police cruiser's dashcam, what starts off as a normal traffic stop unravels quickly when officers find a gun in a glove compartment then the passenger won't comply with orders to not move.

A 75-year-old Old Bridge man was shot to death by police Tuesday morning after brandishing a knife at officers who had been called to his home over reports of a disturbance, the county prosecutor said.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- A prosecutor says she brought murder charges against two Albuquerque police officers in the shooting death of a homeless man because the evidence determined probable cause.

BERKELEY, Mo. (AP) -- Demonstrators took to the streets for a second night after a white police officer in Berkeley, Missouri, killed a black 18-year-old who police said pointed a gun at him.

BERKELEY, Mo. (AP) -- The mayor of the St. Louis suburb of Berkeley urged calm Wednesday after a white police officer killed a black 18-year-old who police said pointed a gun at him, reigniting tensions that have lingered since the death of Michael Brown in neighboring Ferguson.

BERKELEY, Mo. (AP) -- A suburban St. Louis police officer shot and killed a man who pointed a gun at him at a gas station late Tuesday, police said.