Former officer Michael Slager sentenced to 20 years for murder of Walter Scott

  • 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 ...