Walter Scott

They may be sailing along The Fantastic Voyage 2015, but some of the celebrities aboard are still in touch with what’s going on back home. In his performance aboard the Carnival Breeze, along with the celebrities, TJMS crew and partygoers on board, LL Cool J took a minute to pay tribute to police shooting victim […]

  Roland Martin talks to Tamika Mallory about the Justice League NYC‘s march to Washington, D.C. from New York to pass legislature in light of the horrific shooting death of Walter Scott, the South Carolina man killed by police officer Michael Slager. “We’re going to be joined this morning by Erica Garner, the daughter of Eric […]

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…

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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 […]

Late today, the family of Walter Scott, the South Carolina man shot and killed by a police officer while fleeing after a traffic stop and the witness who captured the video of the fatal shooting, Feidin Santana, came together in Charleston, South Carolina. NBC News correspondent Craig Melvin was there as Scott’s mother thanked Santana […]

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 […]

We now know who the identity of the person who shot the video that appears to show a white police officer shooting Walter Scott, an unarmed black man in the back in South Carolina. Feidin Santana, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, said there was a struggle between the two men before the deadly shooting, but […]

Like many Black Americans, I was filled with anger while watching a graphic video of a white South Carolina police officer shooting an unarmed black man in the back eight times while the man was running away. His crime: A broken taillight. The officer, Michael T. Slager, 33, a police officer with the North Charleston, […]

After Officer Michael T. Slager was charged with murder for the killing of Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina earlier today, civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump said he…