South Carolina shooting

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Dashboard video shows a police officer making a routine traffic stop. Cellphone video shows the officer shooting the fleeing motorist in the back. What remains a mystery is what happened during the minutes in between that led the polite officer to become a killer.

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.

Six people were found dead in a home by SWAT team members who stormed in after police unsuccessfully tried to make contact with someone after receiving a call from a man who said he was thinking about hurting himself.