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South Carolina Police Decline to Pursue Charges Against Man Who Fatally Shot Unarmed 15-Year-Old Over a Stolen Car
The North Charleston, S.C., Police Department has declined to pursue criminal charges against a man who went after and then fatally shot an unarmed 15-year-old boy in a car theft. Derrick Grant was killed Jan. 17 by 24-year-old Quadarrel Lamont Morton, who claimed that the teen repeatedly reached into the stolen car, the Post and…
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North Charleston, SC, Appoints 1st Black Police Chief Almost 3 Years After Murder of Walter Scott
After 52 years as a resident, 29 years as a police officer and five years as assistant chief—and nearly three years since the killing of unarmed citizen Walter Scott—Reggie Burgess will be sworn in Thursday as North Charleston, S.C.’s first black police chief. The Post and Courier reports that Burgess will replace Eddie Driggers as…
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Sentencing Begins in Trial of Former South Carolina Cop Who Killed Walter Scott
The sentencing hearing for former South Carolina Police Officer Michael Slager, who was caught on videotape shooting and killing a fleeing, unarmed Walter Scott during a 2015 traffic stop, begins Monday. As USA Today notes, Slager, 36, could face life in prison in addition to a $250,000 fine for using excessive force in the incident.…
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#WalterScott: Prosecutor Believed It Was a ‘Close Call’ Between Manslaughter and Murder
The South Carolina prosecutor who tried the now former North Charleston police officer responsible for shooting and killing the 50-year-old black unarmed motorist Walter Scott said in a pretrial hearing last year that Michael Slager’s shooting of Scott was a “close call” between manslaughter and murder, but that a case could be made for either…
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#WalterScott: Federal Civil Rights Trial for Michael Slager Expected This Spring
Just a week after his state murder trial in the death of Walter Scott ended with a hung jury, a source close to the case said Tuesday that federal prosecutors expect to try former North Charleston, S.C., Police Officer Michael Slager sometime this spring. As previously reported on The Root, state prosecutor Scarlett A. Wilson…
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#WalterScott: Lone Juror Appears to Be Holdout in Guilty Verdict
Updated, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016, 2 p.m. EST: One juror in the Walter Scott murder trial apparently refuses to vote for a guilty verdict, thereby deadlocking the jury in the high-profile murder case. The juror, identified only as a 50-year-old male, told the judge Friday that he could not “with good conscience approve a guilty verdict” against…
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#WalterScott: Jury for Killer Cop Has 11 Whites, 1 Black
The jury in the trial of the white former North Charleston, S.C., police officer accused of murdering a black unarmed motorist was seated in the case Wednesday, with 11 whites and 1 black serving. Michael Slager, 34, is charged with murder in the April 2015 shooting death of Walter Scott, 50, who was running from…
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DOJ Proposes Citizens Advisory Commission in North Charleston, S.C.
Seeking to improve relationships between the community and police, a proposal for a citizen’s advisory committee will be presented to North Charleston next month. The U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Office will present the proposal for the North Charleston Citizen’s Advisory Commission on Community/Police Relations Nov. 4 at Royal Baptist Church in North Charleston,…