http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/09/1376621/-Meet-the-brave-man-who-now-fears-for-his-safety-after-filming-an-officer-murder-Walter-Scott?detail=email
On April 4, Feidin Santana was on the phone, walking to work in North Charleston, South Carolina, when an event that would soon grip the nation happened just a few feet away from his path. Knowing what we know now—that Officer Michael Slager murdered Walter Scott in cold blood and attempted to frame him by planting a stun gun on him—it's increasingly clear that Feidin Santana acted with extreme bravery when he filmed what turned out to be the worst thing he's ever witnessed.
Now, Feidin has real concerns for his own safety:
"I won't deny that I knew the magnitude of this, and I even thought about erasing the video," Santana said in an interview on MSNBC's "All In With Chris Hayes" Wednesday.
"I felt that my life, with this information, might be in danger. I thought about erasing the video and just getting out of the community, you know Charleston, and living some place else," the 23-year-old said. "I knew the cop didn't do the right thing."
In an interview with TODAY's Matt Lauer on Thursday, Santana said: "I'm still scared."
"I say life changed in a matter of seconds. I never thought this would happen, that I would be a witness," he told TODAY's Matt Lauer in an exclusive interview Thursday. "I'm still scared."
i feared for his well being when i first saw the piece on TV i did not consciously think you are crazy but i feel sure it was their and mixed in my conscious thoughts of how he had better back up before the look up and see him, then i thought how brazen these cops were to do this and attempt a frame and had no compunction they never looked around to see if they were being watched now that is a new example of the audacity of arrogance. but i do worry 3 thinks in particular create that concern, 1. he's Black, 2. he witnessed a cop murdering another Black man, 3. he's in South Carolina i offer my prayers for his safety, it doesn't have to be a cop they have plenty of racist crazies in that part of the country either urged or on their own, as much as i hate to say it he needs to leave town and his family too on the prosecutions dime.
