Video key in ex-officer's stiff sentence for killing

Saturday, December 9, 2017

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- The video was viewed millions of times around the world. It was somewhat blurry, recorded from a distance, but it clearly showed an unarmed black man running from a white officer, who shot him five times in the back.

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