Nation Dec 07 Former South Carolina officer gets 20-year sentence for fatal shooting of Walter Scott By Hannah Grabenstein
Nation May 02 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 Watch 3:15 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… By PBS NewsHour
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. Continue reading
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… Continue reading
Apr 28 Watch 10:46 Should government play a role in addressing root causes of Baltimore’s upheaval? By PBS NewsHour Continue watching
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. Continue reading
Apr 10 Watch 7:12 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… Continue watching