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Killing of Walter Scott

May 04, 2024

On April 4, 2015, Walter Scott, a 50-year-old black man, was fatally shot by Michael Slager, a local police officer in North Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Slager had stopped Scott for a non-functioning brake light.[1][2] Slager was charged with murder after a video surfaced showing him shooting Scott from behind while Scott was fleeing, which contradicted Slager's report of the incident. The racial difference led many to believe that the shooting was racially motivated, generating a widespread controversy.[3]

Killing of Walter Scott
Screenshot from witness's video, showing Officer Michael Slager shooting Walter Scott
LocationNorth Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.
Coordinates
DateApril 4, 2015 (2015-04-04)
9:30 a.m. (EDT)
Attack type
Police killing, homicide by shooting
VictimWalter Lamar Scott, aged 50
PerpetratorMichael Thomas Slager
VerdictFederal charge:
Guilty
State charge:
Mistrial[a]
ChargesFederal charge:
Deprivation of rights under color of law resulting in death[b]
State charge:
Murder
Filmed byFeidin Santana
Sentence20 years in federal prison
LitigationWrongful death lawsuit settled for $6.5 million

The case was independently investigated by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED). The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina, and the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division conducted their own investigations. In June 2015, a South Carolina grand jury indicted Slager on a charge of murder. He was released on bond in January 2016. In late 2016, a five-week trial ended in a mistrial due to a hung jury. In May 2016, Slager was indicted on federal charges including violation of Scott's civil rights and obstruction of justice. In a May 2017 plea agreement, Slager pleaded guilty to federal charges of civil rights violations, and he was returned to jail pending sentencing.[4][5] In return for his guilty plea, the state's murder charges were dropped.[5]

In December 2017, Slager was sentenced to 20 years in prison, with the judge determining the underlying offense was second-degree murder.[6]

Persons involved edit

 
Scott during his service in the U.S. Coast Guard in the mid-1980s
  • Walter Lamar Scott[note 1] was a 50-year-old[8] forklift operator, studying massage therapy.[9][10][11] An arrest warrant had been issued since a January 16, 2013, court hearing regarding his child support payments,[12] for which he had previously been jailed three times.[13] Scott previously served two years in the U.S. Coast Guard before being given a general discharge in 1986 for a drug-related offense.[14]
  • Michael Thomas Slager, 33 years old at the time of the incident, served in the North Charleston Police Department (NCPD) for five years and five months prior to the shooting.[15] Before becoming a police officer, he served in the U.S. Coast Guard.[16] Slager was named in a police complaint in 2013 for allegedly using a Taser on a man without cause. Slager was cleared by the police department over the incident; the victim and several witnesses said they were not interviewed. Following the Scott killing, North Charleston police stated they would re-review the 2013 complaint.[17] Slager was named in a second tasing-without-cause complaint following an August 2014 police stop.[18] A complaint filed in January 2015 resulted in Slager being cited for failing to file a report.[16] Personnel documents describe Slager as having demonstrated "great officer safety tactics" in dealing with suspects, and note his proficiency with a Taser.[16]

Killing edit

External videos
  Traffic stop on YouTube (4:00)

At 9:30 a.m., April 4, 2015, in the parking lot of an auto parts store at 1945 Remount Road,[19] Slager stopped Scott for a non-functioning third brake light.[20] Scott was driving a 1991 Mercedes, and, according to his brother, was headed to the auto parts store when he was stopped.[21] The video from Slager's dashcam shows him approaching Scott's car, speaking to Scott, and then returning to his patrol car. Scott exited his car and fled with Slager giving chase on foot.[22][23]

Slager pursued Scott into a lot behind a pawn shop at 5654 Rivers Avenue,[19] and the two became involved in a physical altercation. At some point before or during the struggle, Slager fired his Taser, hitting Scott.[24] Scott fled, and Slager drew his .45-caliber Glock 21 handgun, firing eight rounds at him from behind.[25] The coroner's report stated that Scott was struck a total of five times: three times in the back, once in the upper buttocks, and once on an ear.[26] During Slager's state trial, forensic pathologist Lee Marie Tormos testified that the fatal wound was caused by a bullet that entered Scott's back and struck his lungs and heart.[27]

Immediately following the shooting, Slager radioed a dispatcher, stating, "Shots fired and the subject is down. He grabbed my Taser."[24]

When Slager fired his gun, Scott was approximately 15 to 20 feet (5 to 6 m) away and fleeing.[25] In the report of the shooting filed before the video surfaced, Slager said he had feared for his life because Scott had taken his Taser,[25] and that he shot Scott because he "felt threatened".[28]

A passenger in Scott's car, reported to be a male co-worker and friend, was later placed in the back of a police vehicle and briefly detained.[22][23]

A toxicology report showed that Scott had cocaine and alcohol in his system at the time of his death. The level of cocaine was less than half the average amount for "typical impaired drivers", according to the report.[29] Tormos testified that Scott did not test positive for alcohol.[27]

Eyewitness video edit

External videos
  Shooting on Vimeo (3:12)
  Shooting on YouTube (3:49)

An eyewitness to the shooting, Feidin Santana, recorded video of the incident on his phone.[30] At first Santana did not share the video out of fear of retribution, but he became angered when the police report differed from his view of the events.[31] In an interview on MSNBC, Santana said, "I felt that my life, with this information, might be in danger. I thought about erasing the video and just getting out of the community, you know Charleston, and living some place else."[32] The video was subsequently shared with Scott's family through an activist of Black Lives Matter, and later with the news media.[30][33]

Santana said that after a struggle in which Slager deployed his Taser, Scott was "just trying to get away from the Taser," and that before he started recording, he observed that Slager "had control of the situation".[34] In an interview on The Today Show, Santana said Scott "never grabbed the Taser of the police. He never got the Taser."[35][36][37]

After Scott was shot and had dropped to the ground, Slager approached him, repeatedly instructed him to place his hands behind his back, and handcuffed him, leaving him face down on the ground. Although police reports stated that officers performed CPR on Scott, no such action is visible on the video.[25] The video shows that Slager ran back toward where the initial scuffle occurred and picked something up off the ground. Moments later, he dropped the object, possibly the Taser, beside Scott's body.[38][39]

Another officer, Clarence W. Habersham Jr., is seen in the video; he puts on medical gloves and appears to examine Scott.[40]

Aftermath edit

Critics, such as the Reverend Al Sharpton and the predominantly African-American National Bar Association, called for the prosecution of Clarence Habersham, the second officer seen in the video, alleging an attempted cover-up and questioning "whether Habersham omitted significant information from his report." Critics also questioned Habersham's statement in his report that he "attempted to render aid to the victim by applying pressure to the gunshot wounds," saying that the videotape shows little attempt to aid Scott after the shooting.[41][42]

Slager's original lawyer, David Aylor, withdrew as counsel within hours of the release of the video; he did not publicly give a reason for his withdrawal, citing attorney–client privilege.[43][44][45]

On April 8, the North Charleston city manager announced that the NCPD had fired Slager but would continue to pay for his health insurance because his wife was pregnant.[46] The town's mayor, Keith Summey, said they had ordered an additional 150 body cameras, enough that one could be worn by every police officer.[22]

A GoFundMe campaign was started to raise money for Slager's defense, but it was quickly shut down by the site. Citing privacy concerns, they declined to go into detail about why the campaign was canceled, saying only that it was "due to a violation of our terms and conditions".[47]

Scott's funeral took place on April 11, at the W.O.R.D. Ministries Christian Center in Summerville, about 20 miles from North Charleston.[8][48]

Scott's killing further fueled a national conversation around race and policing.[49] It has been connected to similar controversial police shootings of black men in Missouri, New York, and elsewhere.[50] The Black Lives Matter movement protested Scott's death.[51]

A bill in the South Carolina state house, designed to equip more police officers with body cameras, was renamed for Scott. The Senate set aside $3.4 million to fund it, enough to buy 2,000 cameras for South Carolina officers.[52]

In May 2016,[53] a short documentary film about the shooting called Frame 394 was released by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.[53][54][55] The documentary is about Daniel Voshart, a Canadian cinematographer and image stabilization specialist, who claims to have discovered evidence in frame 394 of the shooting video "that challenged the accepted narrative of what transpired between Slager and Scott";[54] and it follows his "moral dilemma of what to do with this potential key evidence".[54] Initially, Voshart examined the footage to help indict Slager,[55] having been convinced by the footage that it "was an example of police corruption at its worst".[54] After clarifying the video and inspecting frame 394, however, he noticed that as Slager began reaching to draw his firearm, it appeared that Scott was still holding Slager's Taser, "potentially enough to make Slager fear for his life and maybe meet the grounds needed to use lethal force."[55] It was impactful in Slager's trial after Voshart showed Slager's lawyer, Andy Savage, the stabilized video.[55] During the trial, the officer "testified that he did not realize the Taser had fallen behind him when he fired the fatal shots."[56]

Investigation edit

Separate investigations were conducted by the FBI, the U.S. Attorney in South Carolina, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED).[34][57] An autopsy was performed by the Charleston County coroner on April 4, 2015, which showed that Scott had been shot in the back multiple times. The coroner ruled the death a homicide.[58][59]

Prosecution of Slager edit

After the police department reviewed the video,[25] Slager was arrested on April 7 and charged with murder.[60] On June 8, a South Carolina grand jury indicted Slager on the murder charge.[7][note 2][38] The murder charge was the only charge presented to the grand jury.[61]

On January 4, 2016, after being held without bail for almost nine months, Slager was released on $500,000 bond. He was confined to house arrest until the trial, which began October 31, 2016.[62][63][64] On December 5, Judge Clifton Newman declared a mistrial after the jury became deadlocked with 11 of the 12 jurors favoring a conviction.[65] A retrial was scheduled for August 2017.[66] However, the state charges were dropped as a result of Slager pleading guilty to a federal charge.[67]

On May 11, 2016, Slager was indicted on federal charges of violating Scott's civil rights and unlawfully using a weapon during the commission of a crime. In addition, he was charged with obstruction of justice as a result of his statement to state investigators that Scott was moving toward him with the Taser when he shot him.[26] Slager pleaded not guilty, and a trial was scheduled to begin in May 2017.[68] Slager faced up to life in prison if convicted.[69]

On May 2, 2017, as part of a plea agreement, Slager pleaded guilty to deprivation of rights under color of law (18 USC § 242). In return for the guilty plea, the charges of obstructing justice and use of a firearm during a crime of violence were dismissed.[70][71]

On December 7, 2017, U.S. District Judge David C. Norton sentenced Slager to 20 years in prison.[72] Although defense attorneys had argued for voluntary manslaughter, the judge agreed with prosecutors that the "appropriate underlying offense" was second-degree murder.[6] Because there is no parole in the federal justice system, Slager will likely remain in prison about 18 years after credit for time served in jail.[73] He began serving his sentence in Colorado's Federal Correctional Institution, Englewood in February 2018.[74] An appeal for reduction of sentence was denied in January 2019.[75][76] As of 2023, Slager, Federal Bureau of Prisons #31292-171, is still at FCI Englewood; his earliest possible release is August 16, 2032. In mid-2021, Slager went back to court asking for a reduction of his sentence. He claimed his defense was incompetent and that he was not involved in the negotiations over the plea deal.[77] The court ruled against Slager and upheld the sentence.[78]

Civil settlement edit

In an out-of-court settlement, the City of North Charleston agreed in October 2015 to pay $6.5 million to Scott's family.[79]

Walter Scott Notification Act edit

The Walter Scott Notification Act is proposed federal legislation by U.S. Senator Tim Scott (no relation) of South Carolina to require the reporting of police shootings by any state receiving federal funding for law enforcement.[80]

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ 11-1 in favor of guilty verdict. Charge dropped after federal conviction.
  2. ^ Underlying offense of second-degree murder.
  1. ^ This is the name spelling used in the state grand jury indictment document[7] as well as in many news sources. Many other news sources spelled Scott's middle name as "Lamer".
  2. ^ South Carolina law defines only one type of murder: "unlawful killing with malice aforethought".[38]

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External links edit

  • Video Shows Fatal Police Shooting. The New York Times. April 7, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2015. (with annotations and enhanced close up of a dropped object)
  • Walter Scott shooting footage synced with police scanner audio – video. The Guardian. April 9, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2015. (Entire video with annotations)

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On April 4 2015 Walter Scott a 50 year old black man was fatally shot by Michael Slager a local police officer in North Charleston South Carolina United States Slager had stopped Scott for a non functioning brake light 1 2 Slager was charged with murder after a video surfaced showing him shooting Scott from behind while Scott was fleeing which contradicted Slager s report of the incident The racial difference led many to believe that the shooting was racially motivated generating a widespread controversy 3 Killing of Walter ScottScreenshot from witness s video showing Officer Michael Slager shooting Walter ScottLocationNorth Charleston South Carolina U S Coordinates32 53 57 N 80 00 50 W 32 89926 N 80 01394 W 32 89926 80 01394 traffic stop 32 53 54 N 80 00 52 W 32 8982 N 80 0145 W 32 8982 80 0145 shooting DateApril 4 2015 2015 04 04 9 30 a m EDT Attack typePolice killing homicide by shootingVictimWalter Lamar Scott aged 50PerpetratorMichael Thomas SlagerVerdictFederal charge GuiltyState charge Mistrial a ChargesFederal charge Deprivation of rights under color of law resulting in death b State charge MurderFilmed byFeidin SantanaSentence20 years in federal prisonLitigationWrongful death lawsuit settled for 6 5 million The case was independently investigated by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division SLED The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI the Office of the U S Attorney for the District of South Carolina and the Justice Department s Civil Rights Division conducted their own investigations In June 2015 a South Carolina grand jury indicted Slager on a charge of murder He was released on bond in January 2016 In late 2016 a five week trial ended in a mistrial due to a hung jury In May 2016 Slager was indicted on federal charges including violation of Scott s civil rights and obstruction of justice In a May 2017 plea agreement Slager pleaded guilty to federal charges of civil rights violations and he was returned to jail pending sentencing 4 5 In return for his guilty plea the state s murder charges were dropped 5 In December 2017 Slager was sentenced to 20 years in prison with the judge determining the underlying offense was second degree murder 6 Contents 1 Persons involved 2 Killing 2 1 Eyewitness video 3 Aftermath 3 1 Investigation 3 2 Prosecution of Slager 3 3 Civil settlement 3 4 Walter Scott Notification Act 4 See also 5 Notes 6 References 7 External linksPersons involved edit nbsp Scott during his service in the U S Coast Guard in the mid 1980s Walter Lamar Scott note 1 was a 50 year old 8 forklift operator studying massage therapy 9 10 11 An arrest warrant had been issued since a January 16 2013 court hearing regarding his child support payments 12 for which he had previously been jailed three times 13 Scott previously served two years in the U S Coast Guard before being given a general discharge in 1986 for a drug related offense 14 Michael Thomas Slager 33 years old at the time of the incident served in the North Charleston Police Department NCPD for five years and five months prior to the shooting 15 Before becoming a police officer he served in the U S Coast Guard 16 Slager was named in a police complaint in 2013 for allegedly using a Taser on a man without cause Slager was cleared by the police department over the incident the victim and several witnesses said they were not interviewed Following the Scott killing North Charleston police stated they would re review the 2013 complaint 17 Slager was named in a second tasing without cause complaint following an August 2014 police stop 18 A complaint filed in January 2015 resulted in Slager being cited for failing to file a report 16 Personnel documents describe Slager as having demonstrated great officer safety tactics in dealing with suspects and note his proficiency with a Taser 16 Killing editExternal videos nbsp Traffic stop on YouTube 4 00 At 9 30 a m April 4 2015 in the parking lot of an auto parts store at 1945 Remount Road 19 Slager stopped Scott for a non functioning third brake light 20 Scott was driving a 1991 Mercedes and according to his brother was headed to the auto parts store when he was stopped 21 The video from Slager s dashcam shows him approaching Scott s car speaking to Scott and then returning to his patrol car Scott exited his car and fled with Slager giving chase on foot 22 23 Slager pursued Scott into a lot behind a pawn shop at 5654 Rivers Avenue 19 and the two became involved in a physical altercation At some point before or during the struggle Slager fired his Taser hitting Scott 24 Scott fled and Slager drew his 45 caliber Glock 21 handgun firing eight rounds at him from behind 25 The coroner s report stated that Scott was struck a total of five times three times in the back once in the upper buttocks and once on an ear 26 During Slager s state trial forensic pathologist Lee Marie Tormos testified that the fatal wound was caused by a bullet that entered Scott s back and struck his lungs and heart 27 Immediately following the shooting Slager radioed a dispatcher stating Shots fired and the subject is down He grabbed my Taser 24 When Slager fired his gun Scott was approximately 15 to 20 feet 5 to 6 m away and fleeing 25 In the report of the shooting filed before the video surfaced Slager said he had feared for his life because Scott had taken his Taser 25 and that he shot Scott because he felt threatened 28 A passenger in Scott s car reported to be a male co worker and friend was later placed in the back of a police vehicle and briefly detained 22 23 A toxicology report showed that Scott had cocaine and alcohol in his system at the time of his death The level of cocaine was less than half the average amount for typical impaired drivers according to the report 29 Tormos testified that Scott did not test positive for alcohol 27 Eyewitness video edit External videos nbsp Shooting on Vimeo 3 12 nbsp Shooting on YouTube 3 49 An eyewitness to the shooting Feidin Santana recorded video of the incident on his phone 30 At first Santana did not share the video out of fear of retribution but he became angered when the police report differed from his view of the events 31 In an interview on MSNBC Santana said I felt that my life with this information might be in danger I thought about erasing the video and just getting out of the community you know Charleston and living some place else 32 The video was subsequently shared with Scott s family through an activist of Black Lives Matter and later with the news media 30 33 Santana said that after a struggle in which Slager deployed his Taser Scott was just trying to get away from the Taser and that before he started recording he observed that Slager had control of the situation 34 In an interview on The Today Show Santana said Scott never grabbed the Taser of the police He never got the Taser 35 36 37 After Scott was shot and had dropped to the ground Slager approached him repeatedly instructed him to place his hands behind his back and handcuffed him leaving him face down on the ground Although police reports stated that officers performed CPR on Scott no such action is visible on the video 25 The video shows that Slager ran back toward where the initial scuffle occurred and picked something up off the ground Moments later he dropped the object possibly the Taser beside Scott s body 38 39 Another officer Clarence W Habersham Jr is seen in the video he puts on medical gloves and appears to examine Scott 40 Aftermath editCritics such as the Reverend Al Sharpton and the predominantly African American National Bar Association called for the prosecution of Clarence Habersham the second officer seen in the video alleging an attempted cover up and questioning whether Habersham omitted significant information from his report Critics also questioned Habersham s statement in his report that he attempted to render aid to the victim by applying pressure to the gunshot wounds saying that the videotape shows little attempt to aid Scott after the shooting 41 42 Slager s original lawyer David Aylor withdrew as counsel within hours of the release of the video he did not publicly give a reason for his withdrawal citing attorney client privilege 43 44 45 On April 8 the North Charleston city manager announced that the NCPD had fired Slager but would continue to pay for his health insurance because his wife was pregnant 46 The town s mayor Keith Summey said they had ordered an additional 150 body cameras enough that one could be worn by every police officer 22 A GoFundMe campaign was started to raise money for Slager s defense but it was quickly shut down by the site Citing privacy concerns they declined to go into detail about why the campaign was canceled saying only that it was due to a violation of our terms and conditions 47 Scott s funeral took place on April 11 at the W O R D Ministries Christian Center in Summerville about 20 miles from North Charleston 8 48 Scott s killing further fueled a national conversation around race and policing 49 It has been connected to similar controversial police shootings of black men in Missouri New York and elsewhere 50 The Black Lives Matter movement protested Scott s death 51 A bill in the South Carolina state house designed to equip more police officers with body cameras was renamed for Scott The Senate set aside 3 4 million to fund it enough to buy 2 000 cameras for South Carolina officers 52 In May 2016 53 a short documentary film about the shooting called Frame 394 was released by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 53 54 55 The documentary is about Daniel Voshart a Canadian cinematographer and image stabilization specialist who claims to have discovered evidence in frame 394 of the shooting video that challenged the accepted narrative of what transpired between Slager and Scott 54 and it follows his moral dilemma of what to do with this potential key evidence 54 Initially Voshart examined the footage to help indict Slager 55 having been convinced by the footage that it was an example of police corruption at its worst 54 After clarifying the video and inspecting frame 394 however he noticed that as Slager began reaching to draw his firearm it appeared that Scott was still holding Slager s Taser potentially enough to make Slager fear for his life and maybe meet the grounds needed to use lethal force 55 It was impactful in Slager s trial after Voshart showed Slager s lawyer Andy Savage the stabilized video 55 During the trial the officer testified that he did not realize the Taser had fallen behind him when he fired the fatal shots 56 Investigation edit Separate investigations were conducted by the FBI the U S Attorney in South Carolina the Justice Department s Civil Rights Division and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division SLED 34 57 An autopsy was performed by the Charleston County coroner on April 4 2015 which showed that Scott had been shot in the back multiple times The coroner ruled the death a homicide 58 59 Prosecution of Slager edit After the police department reviewed the video 25 Slager was arrested on April 7 and charged with murder 60 On June 8 a South Carolina grand jury indicted Slager on the murder charge 7 note 2 38 The murder charge was the only charge presented to the grand jury 61 On January 4 2016 after being held without bail for almost nine months Slager was released on 500 000 bond He was confined to house arrest until the trial which began October 31 2016 62 63 64 On December 5 Judge Clifton Newman declared a mistrial after the jury became deadlocked with 11 of the 12 jurors favoring a conviction 65 A retrial was scheduled for August 2017 66 However the state charges were dropped as a result of Slager pleading guilty to a federal charge 67 On May 11 2016 Slager was indicted on federal charges of violating Scott s civil rights and unlawfully using a weapon during the commission of a crime In addition he was charged with obstruction of justice as a result of his statement to state investigators that Scott was moving toward him with the Taser when he shot him 26 Slager pleaded not guilty and a trial was scheduled to begin in May 2017 68 Slager faced up to life in prison if convicted 69 On May 2 2017 as part of a plea agreement Slager pleaded guilty to deprivation of rights under color of law 18 USC 242 In return for the guilty plea the charges of obstructing justice and use of a firearm during a crime of violence were dismissed 70 71 On December 7 2017 U S District Judge David C Norton sentenced Slager to 20 years in prison 72 Although defense attorneys had argued for voluntary manslaughter the judge agreed with prosecutors that the appropriate underlying offense was second degree murder 6 Because there is no parole in the federal justice system Slager will likely remain in prison about 18 years after credit for time served in jail 73 He began serving his sentence in Colorado s Federal Correctional Institution Englewood in February 2018 74 An appeal for reduction of sentence was denied in January 2019 75 76 As of 2023 Slager Federal Bureau of Prisons 31292 171 is still at FCI Englewood his earliest possible release is August 16 2032 In mid 2021 Slager went back to court asking for a reduction of his sentence He claimed his defense was incompetent and that he was not involved in the negotiations over the plea deal 77 The court ruled against Slager and upheld the sentence 78 Civil settlement edit In an out of court settlement the City of North Charleston agreed in October 2015 to pay 6 5 million to Scott s family 79 Walter Scott Notification Act edit The Walter Scott Notification Act is proposed federal legislation by U S Senator Tim Scott no relation of South Carolina to require the reporting of police shootings by any state receiving federal funding for law enforcement 80 See also edit nbsp Law portal nbsp United States portal Lists of killings by law enforcement officers in the United StatesNotes edit 11 1 in favor of guilty verdict Charge dropped after federal conviction Underlying offense of second degree murder This is the name spelling used in the state grand jury indictment document 7 as well as in many news sources Many other news sources spelled Scott s middle name as Lamer South Carolina law defines only one type of murder unlawful killing with malice aforethought 38 References edit Judge allows lesser charge of manslaughter in former South Carolina cop s murder trial Chicago Tribune November 30 2016 Retrieved December 6 2016 Prosecutor Officer s shooting of unarmed man in back flat out wrong CBS News Retrieved December 6 2016 Controversial Police Encounters Fast Facts CNN March 26 2017 Retrieved April 26 2017 Blinder Alan May 2 2017 Ex Officer Who Shot Walter Scott Pleads Guilty in Charleston The New York Times Retrieved December 5 2017 a b Murdock Sebastian May 2 2017 Michael Slager Pleads Guilty In Killing Of Unarmed Fleeing Black Man Walter Scott HuffPost Retrieved December 5 2017 a b Edwards Meridith 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