Update (4/8/2015 2:25 p.m.): Mayor Keith Summey of North Charleston said in a press conference that Officer Michael Slager, who is charged with murder, has been fired from the police department, though his pregnant wife will still be receiving health benefits. Additionally, the North Charleston Police Department has received a grant to equip every officer with a body cam.
Another Black man was shot and killed by a white police officer, and newly surfaced video footage clearly shows the individual fleeing before the officer draws his weapon. The officer has since been charged with homicide, but in light of the ever-growing grim list of police slayings of unarmed black men from Ferguson to Eric Garner to Tamir Rice, what are the chances of a conviction
Walter Scott, the deceased, was apparently pulled over during a traffic stop on Saturday and fled his vehicle when the officer, Michael T. Slager, pursued him into a grassy area where a bystander recorded the incident.
