In 2015, Michael Thomas Slager, a white South Carolina police officer, was charged with murder in the murder shooting death of black motorist Walter Lamar Scott after law enforcement officials saw a cellphone video taken by a bystander. (Slager pleaded guilty to federal civil rights charges and was sentenced to twenty years in prison; prosecutors agreed to drop state murder charges that remained after a jury couldn’t agree whether he had committed a crime.) #WalterScott |
