#1 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 12/05/2021 #23

In 2016, a South Carolina judge declared a mistrial after a jury deadlocked in the murder trial of a white former police officer, Michael Thomas Slager, in the murder shooting death of a black motorist, Walter Lamar Scott. (The next year, Slager pleaded guilty in federal court to violating Scott’s civil rights and prosecutors dropped state murder charges; Slager was sentenced to twenty years in prison.) #WalterScott #MichaelSlager

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#2 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 05/02/2022 #24

In 2017, Michael Slager, a white former police officer whose murder killing of Walter Scott, an unarmed black man running from a traffic stop, was captured on cellphone video, pleaded guilty to federal civil rights charges in Charleston, SC. (Slager was sentenced to 20 years in prison.) #MichaelSlager #WalterScott

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#3 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 05/11/2022 #20

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 #MichaelSlager Wrangled his way into a far more habitable federal prison and out of a lousy South Carolina prison.

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