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- The Washington Post and The Guardian obtained video surveillance footage depicting a white security camera pepper spraying and shooting a Black man to death in a motel parking lot in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- Footage of the racist incident comes on the eve of Trump's potentially incendiary rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- As thousands of Americans call to end police brutality, Trump has praised enforcement and called protesters "thugs."
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On the eve of President Donald Trump's controversial reelection campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a new video emerged that depicting the shooting of an unarmed Black father by a security guard.
The Washington Post obtained a video that shows a white security guard pepper-spraying a Black man in a parking lot before shooting him in the head, an incident police later called an "unprovoked attack." Christopher Straight, the security guard, killed Carlos Carson, who was a guest of the motel, after a dispute over a vandalized car, according to reports.
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