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Former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager, right, is escorted from the courthouse by security personnel in Charleston, South Carolina. File photo by Randall Hill/Reuters

Nation Dec 07

Former South Carolina officer gets 20-year sentence for fatal shooting of Walter Scott

By Hannah Grabenstein

World May 02

A combination of file photos showing Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump. Photos by Ivan Sekretarev and Lucas Jackson/Reuters
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News Wrap: Trump and Putin agree to step up Syria diplomacy

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Nation May 02

Former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager is escorted from the courthouse by security personnel while waiting on his verdict at the Charleston County Courthouse in Charleston, South Carolina, in December 2016. Photo by Randall Hill/Reuters
Officer pleads guilty to federal civil rights charge in 2015 shooting of Walter Scott

A former North Charleston police officer who was caught on video fatally shooting a black motorist as he fled a traffic stop in South Carolina pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal civil rights charge.

By Dave Berndtson

Politics Dec 05

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News Wrap: Mistrial for South Carolina police officer who killed Walter Scott

In our news wrap Monday, a South Carolina judge declared a mistrial in a police killing after the jury deadlocked. North Charleston officer Michael Slager was charged with murdering an unarmed black man, Walter Scott, as he ran from a…

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Nation Dec 05

Mistrial declared in case against officer charged with killing Walter Scott

After more than 22 hours of deliberations over four days, jurors told Circuit Judge Clifton Newman on Monday afternoon they could not come to an unanimous decision in the case against the 34-year-old ex-patrolman, who faced a possible sentence of…

By Joshua Barajas

Nov 03

Officer’s caught-on-camera actions in the death of Walter Scott ‘flat out wrong,’ S.C. solicitor says

By Joshua Barajas

Attorneys delivered opening statements Thursday in the trial of a South Carolina police officer Michael Slager over the 2015 death of Walter L. Scott, an unarmed black man.

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Sep 21

Race relations in U.S. at a low point in recent history, new poll suggests

By Margaret Myers

In the year following the death of Michael Brown, America has seen its share of racial disquiet. It is with this backdrop that PBS NewsHour and Marist College’s Institute for Public Opinion conducted a survey of Americans that illustrates the…

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Apr 28

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Should government play a role in addressing root causes of Baltimore’s upheaval?

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Apr 18

S.C. activists demand DOJ probe local police killings since 1994

By Daniel Costa-Roberts

Civil rights groups in North Charleston, South Carolina have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to launch an investigation into all the fatal officer-involved shootings in Charleston County since 1994.

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Apr 10

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Teaching citizens how to shoot better video when they witness brutality

By PBS NewsHour

Video that captures violent abuse by police or a government can send shockwaves through a society, but even if it goes viral, it may not stand up in a courtroom as evidence. Hari Sreenivasan reports on how one organization is…

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