#1 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 04/09/2015 #3

North Charleston police officer Michael Slager is seen shooting 50-year-old Walter Scott in the back as he runs away, in this still image from video in North Charleston, SC, taken April 4th, 2015. Slager was charged with murder on Tuesday after a video showed him shooting eight times at the back of Scott who was running away. North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey said state investigators decided to charge officer Slager, 33, with the murder of Scott after they viewed the video of the incident, which followed a traffic stop on Saturday morning. The FBI and U.S. Justice Department have begun a separate investigation.

Murder of Walter Lamar Scott #WalterScott MjL

#2 Click this link to see Political Cartoons page --> 04/12/2015 #4

Actually the photos and video are not enough —— sending a few of them to the electric chair might, just might, make a cop think twice about committing murder. #WalterScott MjL

#3 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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#4 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 04/04/2022 #20

In 2015, in North Charleston, SC, Walter Lamar Scott, a 50-year-old black motorist, was murdered shot to death while running away from a murderer traffic stop; Officer Michael Thomas Slager, seen in a cellphone video opening fire at Scott, was charged with murder. (The charge, which lingered after a 1st state trial ended in a mistrial, was dropped as part of a deal under which Slager pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights violation; he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.) #WalterScott

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#5 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 04/07/2022 #17

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

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#6 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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#7 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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