- Sentence on ex-South Carolina officer unusually severe for police shooting
- Slager shot black motorist in back five times in 2015 after traffic stop
A white former South Carolina police officer was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a federal judge on Thursday for the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist, an unusually severe sentence for a police shooting.
The judge had earlier ruled that Michael Slager, who shot and killed Walter Scott after a traffic ...