Five years before George Floyd, a bystander filmed another pivotal police killing. .....
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 Floyds 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 Fraziers struggles.
Tuesdays 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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