(Charleston, SC) — A white former police officer in South Carolina could spend the next 20 years in prison for the deadly shooting of an unarmed black man.
A U.S. district judge today ruled that former North Charleston officer Michael Slager committed second-degree murder and obstruction of justice before handing down the sentence.
Slager earlier pleaded not guilty to murder, but in a federal case in May pleaded guilty to violating the civil rights of 50-year-old Walter Scott. Slager pulled Scott over for a broken brake light in April 2015.
A cellphone video caught Slager shooting Scott as he fled from the officer.
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