In 2016, a white former South Carolina police officer already facing a state murder charge in the murder shooting death of black motorist Walter Scott was indicted on federal charges including depriving the victim of his civil rights. (Michael Slager pleaded guilty to violating Scott’s civil rights and was sentenced to twenty years in prison; prosecutors agreed to drop the state murder charge.) #WalterScott #MichaelSlagerWrangled his way into a far more habitable federal prison
and out of a lousy South Carolina prison.  |
