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 Zachary Hammond, a white teenager, pulled up to a drive-through window last week at a Hardee’s restaurant in Seneca, S.C. A sting operation was underway, with police officers suspecting a possible drug deal. 
  
 Within minutes, an officer used his patrol car to block Mr. Hammond’s vehicle. According to the Oconee County coroner’s report, an officer identified as Lt. Mark Tiller then “felt threatened” as Mr. Hammond drove his car toward him. The officer fired two shots through the open window on the driver’s side, striking Mr. Hammond once in the shoulder and once fatally in the chest. 
  
 Eric S. Bland, a lawyer for the Hammond family, has demanded that the news media treat the killing of Mr. Hammond as they have recent shootings of unarmed black men, and some supporters on social media agree. 
  
 The national debate over the police and race has grown in the year since Michael Brown was fatally shot in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 9, 2014, as the shootings of black men have been elevated in the public eye by body cameras, dashboard camera footage, security cameras and cellphone videos. 
  
 The firsthand footage has generated protest and social media campaigns like #blacklivesmatter. 
  
 But the police shooting of Mr. Hammond on July 26 has so far drawn little of the same public attention, in part because of a lack of video footage. 
  
 Thom Berry, a spokesman for the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, which has been charged with conducting an independent investigation, said on Friday that there was dashboard video camera footage in the Hammond shooting. 
  
 “At some point in time it will become a public record,” he said. He did not say when. 
  
 Mr. Bland said the Hammond family had obtained an independent autopsy that shows the young man was shot with the .45-caliber handgun in the back left shoulder and the left side of his chest: a distinction that was not in the official autopsy and one that he said dashed the impression that the officer was going to be hit by the car. 
  
 The report by the county coroner, Karl E. Addis, has ruled Mr. Hammond’s death a homicide. 
  
 Mr. Bland said the teenager’s death had fallen through the cracks of public discourse over police killings and race, and suggested it was because it was a “white-on-white” shooting. In the shooting of “every kid who is black or white,” he said, “everybody should be equally offended.” 
  
 On social media, Zachary Hammond’s death spawned calls for all officers to be required to wear body cameras, as well as questions about whether the movement to protest police shootings was applied equally across racial lines. 
  
 Mr. Addis, the coroner, said he did not know what position Mr. Hammond’s body was in when he was shot. 
  
 A police report that night mentioned only that the female occupant of the car, Tori Morton, 23, had been arrested after she was found to have marijuana. 
  
 The Seneca police chief, John Covington, subsequently said in a series of statements that the officer had fired in self-defense, having tried to stop and arrest the driver who “drove his vehicle directly at the officer.” 
  
 Chief Covington said Lieutenant Tiller, who joined the Seneca Police Department in 2010, had never faced disciplinary action. Lieutenant Tiller’s lawyer, John M. Mussetto, said that Mr. Hammond had “rapidly reversed his vehicle toward Lieutenant Tiller’s patrol vehicle,” and that the officer had fired to stop the threat. 
  
 An incident report released by the police chief described Lieutenant Tiller as a victim of “attempted murder.” ||||| Police said Hammond allegedly tried to run the officer over before he fired, but his family disputes that deadly force was necessary, and an autopsy showed the shots came from the side, not from in front of or behind the vehicle. 
  
 "I hear them say he was feared for his life, but when you see where the gunshot wounds were in my son, it's hard to believe at that moment in time he was in fear for his life," Hammond's father, Paul Hammond, told NBC affiliate WYFF on Wednesday. 
  
 Tiller’s attorney said in a statement Friday that the car was so close that Tiller had to "push off" the vehicle. 
  
 "In order to stop the continuing threat to himself and the general public, two shots were fired by Lieutenant Tiller in quick succession," the attorney, John Musetto, said in the statement. 
  
 There is police dash camera video of the incident, police said. The video has been turned over to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, which is investigating the shooting, Seneca Police Chief John Covington said. 
  
 Covington had previously refused to release the name of the officer by claiming that he was the victim of attempted murder. Covington said Tiller is a 10-year veteran of law enforcement and has been with the Seneca Police Department since 2010. He said Tiller has no record of disciplinary personnel actions with Seneca police. 
  
 Police said they found a small amount of marijuana in Hammond's car, and issued a summons to his passenger for simple possession of marijuana, according to police records. 
  
 Attorneys for the Hammond family criticized the use of deadly force during a stop for such a trivial charge, and compared it to other high-profile police shootings of black suspects. Zachary Hammond and the officer were both white. 
  
 "The central issue remains the same: As a society we need to curb the excessive and deadly force by our police departments in situations where such force is unwarranted," attorneys Eric Bland and Ronald L. Richter Jr. said in a statement. 
  
 Seneca is a small town of about 8,000 in the northwestern part of South Carolina. |||||
Student:
After a flurry of Freedom of Information Act requests, police in South Carolina yesterday identified Lt. Mark Tiller as the officer who shot and killed unarmed 19-year-old teen Zachary Hammond during a drug sting in a Hardee's parking lot, the Washington Post reports. According to NBC News, police had previously refused to identify Tiller, a 10-year-veteran with no record of disciplinary action within the Seneca Police Department, because he was a victim of "attempted murder" in the Hardee's incident last month and over concerns for his safety. The New York Times reports officers suspicious of a possible drug deal stopped Hammond's car before Tiller opened fire through the open driver's side window. Police say Hammond tried to run over Tiller prior to the shooting, but the official police report from the scene makes no mention of what happened before the shooting or why Tiller believed his life was in danger, according to the Post. Based on where the shots were fired from, Hammond's family questions the use of deadly force and doesn't believe the officer feared for his life. Dash cam footage of the incidentexists, but it isn't clear when it will be made public, notes the Times. A 23-year-old woman in the car with Hammond at the time was arrested on suspicion of possessing 10 grams of marijuana. Hammond is white, and his attorney thinks that's why the case isn't getting as much national attention as other police shootings.