Michael Slager

*Requests to release Michael Slager – the former South Carolina police officer who shot and killed Walter Scott – on bond have officially been denied. Referencing court documents, NBC News reports that Judge Clifton Newman denied Slager’s petition on Monday (Sept. 14).  Slager’s request for bond was motivated under claims that he wanted to see his son and that […]

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Attorneys for a white former police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man during a traffic stop are asking…

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — They forgave him. They advised him to repent for his sins, and asked for God’s mercy on his soul. One even…

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. – A grand jury has indicted a white South Carolina police officer on charges of murder for shooting a black man...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A prosecutor says it doesn’t look as if the death penalty can be sought in the case of a Black South…

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — But for a series of split-second decisions that followed a traffic stop, Walter Scott might still be alive and police…

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Less than two months before he was killed, Walter Lamer Scott turned 50 and wanted everyone around him to join…

SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A crowd gathered in Summerville, South Carolina on Saturday for the funeral of Walter Scott — the Black driver who was…

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — As North Charleston surged in population last decade, South Carolina’s third-largest city fought rising crime through a simple policing solution:…