Five years before George Floyd, a bystander filmed another pivotal police killing. .....

[Judi Lynn]

Five years before George Floyd, a bystander filmed another pivotal police killing. It nearly cost him everything.
Andrea Salcedo 19 hrs ago


Feidin Santana avoided watching the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin at all costs, fearing the emotional triggers would be unbearable. But there was one witness whose testimony Santana deliberately sought out: 18-year-old Darnella Frazier.

Frazier, who filmed Floyd’s death as bystanders pleaded with Chauvin to get off his neck, told the court last month that she agonizes about “not doing more” to save him.

Santana, 29, is one of the few who can directly relate to Frazier’s struggles.

Tuesday’s guilty verdict brought Santana back to 2015, when he used his cellphone to film a White South Carolina police officer fatally shooting Walter Scott, an unarmed Black man, in the back after a traffic stop. That video also led to a criminal case and eventually a

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[murielm99]

1. I'l never forget that film.

My son-in-law had just died. We were staying with my daughter, but went eventually to a motel. I was physically sick with grief.

The news showed that film over and over.

I was up to my neck in death and sick over all of it.

Walter Scott lost his life. Santana lost the life he knew.