Shocking video shows white US cop shooting at black teen driver SEVEN TIMES at point blank range
Police officer shouts 'Don't make me shoot you!' before firing at the 17-year-old
A POLICE officer fired seven times at a black teenage driver who had both hands on the steering wheel of his slowly-moving car.
The white US cop has been suspended after his dashcam captured the potentially fatal point-blank-range shooting.
Antwon Gallmon, 17, was the only person in the car, and was hospitalised after being struck by at least one bullet.
He was jailed and released on bond after two guns were found in his car.
Dramatic video shows cop Robert Cooper screaming "Stop! Stop! Do not make me shoot you!", before he unloads bullets at Gallmon's driver-side window.
Seconds after the shooting Cooper tells his dispatcher "Shots fired! Shots fired! He tried to hit me with his vehicle".
He then gets in his car to pursue Gallmon and says: "He almost hit me! I was barely able to get out of the way!"
It appears Cooper is suggesting the teen nearly ran him over, rather than alleging he had exchanged gunfire with the youngster.
The footage captured by his dashcam does not appear to show him being nearly struck down by the car.
Cooper, who has been an officer for six years, has been suspended with pay while his use of deadly force comes under intense scrutiny.
The teen was charged with failure to stop for the police, possession of a stolen vehicle, unlawful possession of a pistol, possession of marijuana, possession of a "Schedule 1" drug, and driving without a licence.
The officer fired at Gallmon in the town of Forest Acres in Columbia, South Carolina, on May 19.
Video has only just been released by South Carolina's State Law Enforcement Division,
Forest Acres police chief Gene Sealy has not commented on the footage and is waiting for the results of the SLED's investigation.
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A video showed police officer Michael Slager shooting Scott in the back as he was unarmed and running away.
Slager was charged with murder after the footage of the killing contradicted his police report.
They found 1,134 black people were killed by police officers in the US in 2015.
In November 2014 an officer shot dead Tamir Rice, 12, who was reaching for a replica gun while in a park.
Two cops had arrived after reports of "a black male sitting on a swing and pointing a gun at people" in Cleveland, Ohio.
Police officer Timothy Loehmann fired at Tamir before his police car had even stopped, and said in a police report that it was after the teen had reached for his firearm.
Tamir's family filed a wrongful-death lawsuit and the City of Cleveland agreed to pay his family $6million.