SLATE: …In the extended interview, [Feidin Santana, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic] tells [NBC’s Craig] Melvin that he passes the area where the shooting took place on his way to work at a local barbershop every day. On the morning of Saturday, April 4th, he says, he was just walking by when he saw Scott being pursued by the officer, and he decided to follow the action. But the scene quickly turned more serious than Santana had anticipated.
Afterward, he was so rattled by what he’d witnessed that he considered deleting the video off his phone. “I felt that my life … with this information, might be … in danger,” Santana says. “I thought about erasing the video and just getting out of the community of North Charleston and living someplace else.”
The timeline of events isn’t totally clear, but it sounds like Santana ultimately decided to hand the video over to Walter Scott’s family… (more)
EDITOR: If you want to find a true patriot, often turn to a poor immigrant. They come for a reason. The rest of us just got born here.
