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taillight

noun

One of a pair of red lights mounted on the rear of a vehicle, so it can be seen from the rear at night.

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The word 'taillight' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to the red or amber light at the back of a vehicle, used to indicate its position and direction of travel. Example: The driver quickly applied the brakes, causing the taillights of the car in front of him to light up brightly.

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Timeline (minute and second timings are related to this video recording) of events: SATURDAY: Scott is stopped by Slager for a broken taillight on his Mercedes-Benz sedan on Saturday afternoon at approximately 9.30am.

A few minutes earlier, Slager had stopped Scott for driving with a broken taillight; now he was putting him to death.

On Saturday, a fifty-year-old black man named Walter Scott was stopped for a minor traffic infraction (a broken taillight).

Three weeks ago, after a South Carolina cop repeatedly shot in the back a black man named Walter Scott, who was running away after being stopped for a faulty taillight, she tweeted, "Praying for #WalterScott's family.

Yet in Thursday's newly released video, showing Scott undergoing a routine traffic stop for a broken taillight, there is nothing of that terrifying creature.

Three years before Ferguson, the police chief in the small town of Eutawville killed a black man after an escalating series of events that began with a "broken taillight" infraction.

How quickly we dismiss the stream of routine traffic stops, like Walter Scott's broken taillight, that turn into summonses and warrants and arrests, lost jobs and lost freedoms, creating the volatile racial tinder that is ready for a spark.

They were windswept white landscapes, farmland on either side, lighted only by the occasional distant flickering taillight.

He described it as punishment for his aggressive journalism, which he posts to his Web site, All Things Harlem; the police said the stop was prompted by a broken taillight and ultimately led to a weapons possession charge.

"Do you still sell drugs?" Mr. Hayden said the officers eventually told him that a taillight was broken on his old Jeep, which Mr. Hayden disputes.

Mr. Isidoro, wearing a Dallas Cowboys hat in his parents' kitchen, said he was still angry that his 25 years of work in the United States meant nothing; that being caught with a broken taillight on his vehicle and without immigration papers meant more than having two American sons — Jeffrey, 10, and his brother, Tommy Jefferson, 2, who was named after the family's favorite president.

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