He faces up to life in prison for gunning down the unarmed Black man. UPDATED: 12:30 p.m. EDT, Dec. 7 — A South Carolina judge on Thursday sentenced a White former North Charleston police officer to 20 years in prison for shooting and killing an unarmed Black motorist following a traffic stop in 2015, according […]
Michael Slager’s decision to plead guilty marks a shift in rhetoric–for the past two years the former officer argued that he shot Scott in self-defense. Former North Charleston police officer, Michael Slager, plead guilty to violating the civil rights of Walter Scott, the unarmed motorist he fatally shot. Slager entered the deal a week ahead of jury […]
Mainly White-dominated juries have decided police-involved shootings since August 2014. Whites tend to give law enforcement the benefit of any doubt.
CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) – The judge in the trial of the former North Charleston police officer charged with a motorist’s shooting death said he will declare a mistrial after receiving a note the jury remains deadlocked. MOBILE USERS: Click here to watch the live camera in the courtroom. Michael Slager is charged in the April […]
The former North Charleston, South Carolina, police officer who was charged with the murder of Walter Scott—a 50-year-old Black man who was fatally shot during a traffic stop—has asked that the state court move his murder trial out of Charleston.
The indictment includes charges for a federal civil rights offense, using a firearm during the commission of the civil rights offense, and obstruction of justice. Afederal grand jury on Wednesday handed up a three-count indictment against former North Charleston, South Carolina police officer Michael Slager in the fatal shooting of Walter Scott on April 4, […]
Former North Charleston, South Carolina officer Michael Slager says the police association promised to pay his legal bills after he was arrested and charged in the shooting death of Walter Scott, an unarmed Black man.
Walter Scott’s Family Reaches $6.5 Million Settlement With North Charleston In Fatal Shooting By Cop
The family of unarmed 50-year-old Walter Scott, who was shot and killed by a North Charleston, South Carolina police officer, has reached a $6.5 million settlement with city officials, according to USA Today. The city council signed off on the deal Thursday night at a hearing that was attended by Scott’s family and their attorneys, […]
Since April, the officer who shot Walter Scott in the back and killed him, has been in jail, refused bail, held in isolation. Even though…
A woman’s First Amendment rights may have been violated last week when a U.S. Marshal allegedly destroyed her recording device while she was filming an arrest, the Huffington Post…
Over 400 people took to the streets of New York to protest the recent police killing of Walter Scott and the deaths of many others that have…
Over 400 people took to the streets of New York to protest the recent police killing of Walter Scott and the deaths of many others that have taken place at the hands of law enforcement this year, the New York Daily News reports. Operated in accordance with the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, protests took place in 30 cities […]