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## Video: South Carolina Officer Faces Murder Charge

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_Published 2015-04-08. A police officer in South Carolina has been charged with murder after a video appears to show him shooting a man eight times in the back._


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## Transcript

[ NOISE ] Oh ****. [ UNKNOWN ] Put your hands behind your back. ****. [ NOISE ] Put your hands behind your back.

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