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KamaAina

(78,249 posts) Wed May 11, 2016, 02:09 PM May 2016

South Carolina Cop Who Shot and Killed Fleeing Man Now Facing Federal Charges

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/05/south-carolina-cop-who-shot-and-killed-fleeing-man-now-facing-federal-charges/

Four months after he was released from jail on bond, a South Carolina cop who shot and killed a man who was running away from him, only to claim he had been charging at him, is expected to be jailed again.

But this time on federal charges.

Michael Slager, the North Charleston police officer who killed Walter Scott in 2015 in an incident captured on video by a bystander, was indicted this week by a federal grand jury on three charges....

n convicted, Slater could be sentenced to life in prison. But because there are no minimum sentences for the charges, he could also wind up on probation.

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