In North Charleston, Jim Crow lives on in routine traffic stops, residents say.

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REPORTING FROM NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. - To many black residents, the overt hatred and segregation that ruled this place during the Jim Crow era has morphed into something more insidious: the routine traffic stop.

Councilwoman Dorothy "Dot" Williams, who has been serving for 24 years, said she gets the same recurring complaint from constituents. They were pulled over for not signaling, for a registration tag that wasn't visible or for a broken taillight - then asked to consent to a search.

"Then it escalates," said Williams, 68. "If you say no, they arrest you for disorderly conduct, or worse."

Walter L. Scott was pulled over under exactly such circumstances - a broken brake light - before Officer Michael T. Slager shot him to death as he tried to run away.

The video of Scott's death, taken by a bystander with a cellphone, incensed Williams, but it did not surprise her.

She long assumed that police have killed black men with no justification. There was just no clear video to prove it.

The Rev. Thomas Dixon, an African American community organizer in North Charleston, said black residents have feared local police for years because of what he called "a culture of over-policing" that has led to excessive force and racial profiling.

The problem intensified in the early 2000s, when crime rates in North Charleston soared before leveling off after about 2005, Dixon said. Police responded by stepping up traffic stops, searches and arrests.

In a city that is 47.2% African American and 41.6% white, blacks were stopped almost twice as often, year after year, according to state law enforcement data of all stops that did not lead to an arrest or ticket.

From July 2007 to February 2015, the North Charleston Police Department, which is 80% white, pulled over black drivers 128,838 times.

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[gordianot]

1. I get the feeling authorities in that town do not want a Grand Jury.

Send it to Court see what happens no Ferguson MO zone here in North Charleston. That is an improvement to a degree. It just might keep the Feds out of arrest records and protect retirement.

[jwirr]

2. Like Ferguson MO. What I am still wondering about is when the cop walked back to his car who did

he talk to and what was in the exchange? Was there anything that would have set him off on a killing rampage?

If not then his Jeckle/Hyde turn around from one video to the other was about the driver getting out of the car and running. By the driver ignoring his order to stay in the car. Who died and made the cop god? Who gave the cop the right to kill someone for a faulty tail light? Or for that matter for running?

Why have the cops detained the other passenger? What is going on here?

[gordianot]

3. Good points something also motivated the Mayor and Police Chief to dump that cop.

Planting the taser is obvious but there is more to this story that will come dripping out.