US police officer charged with murder of unarmed black man...

A US university-campus police officer has been charged with murder after shooting dead an unarmed black man earlier this month.

Ray Tensing stopped stopped Samuel DuBose for a missing front-license plate. The body-cam footage released today shows Mr Tensing shooting Mr DuBose at point-blank range after an apparently calm exchange.

The white police officer went on to claim he was dragged by Mr DuBose's car, but this is not seen in the footage, which appears to show him fall to the ground and then run towards DuBose's crashed vehicle after he had been shot.

Announcing the decision to charge the officer, prosecutor Joseph Deters called the shooting of Samuel DuBose, 43, "senseless" and totally unnecessary.

Mr Deters said "I've been doing this for 30 years... this is the most asinine act I've ever seen a police officer make, totally unwarranted." Full story...

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