Michael Slager

A federal grand jury on Wednesday handed up a three-count indictment against former North Charleston, South Carolina police officer Michael Slager in the fatal shooting of Walter Scott on April 4, 2015, according to a statement from Vanita Gupta, head of the Civil Rights Division, and U. S. Attorney Bill Nettles of the District of South […]

Because Slager's trial date isn't until October, lawyers argued that keeping him in jail was akin to punishing him for the crime without a conviction.

The family of Walter Scott, who was shot and killed by a cop in North Charleston, SC, reached the $6.5 million deal with the city.

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A white former North Charleston police officer was indicted on a murder charge Monday in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man who was running away from the officer after a traffic stop. The shooting April 4 was captured on video by a bystander and showed officer Michael Slager […]

A Black homeowner in Hollywood, South Carolina was shot in the neck Thursday by a White sheriff’s deputy responding to a 911 call about a…

We’re not sure if we can believe police reports these days, but according to a police report obtained by The Guardian, North Charleston police officer…

The Rev. Al Sharpton plans to be in North Charleston this weekend to preach at a church in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of a black man by a white officer after a traffic stop. Sharpton told The Associated Press on Friday that his message to the congregation of the Charity Missionary Baptist Church […]

The mother of Michael T. Slager, the former North Charleston police officer charged with murder in the death of South Carolina man Walter Scott, said…

Read TIME’s new cover story: In the Line of Fire http://t.co/3SwPA3trFt pic.twitter.com/FgbdSUa9BG — TIME.com (@TIME) April 9, 2015 In one of their most powerful covers…

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Dashboard video shows a police officer making a routine traffic stop. Cellphone video shows the officer shooting the fleeing motorist in the back. What remains a mystery is what happened during the minutes in between that led the polite officer to become a killer. The dash cam footage released by […]

A White police officer in North Charleston, SC has been charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed Black man. Walter L. Scott…

Since news of South Carolina police officer Michael Slager fatal shooting of Walter Scott surfaced, social media and the general public is showing Slager anything but love. The feelings about Slager have apparently extended to GoFundMe.com, which has rejected a campaign to raise money to support him. ThinkProgress.com reports that although the effort was initially […]