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         Former US Policeman Charged with Shooting Death of Unarmed Man

   by VOA News

   A white former police officer in South Carolina faces federal charges
   in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man who was running from the
   scene of a traffic stop last year.

   An indictment unsealed Wednesday shows a federal grand jury has charged
   Michael Slager with violating the civil rights of Walter Scott,
   obstruction of justice and unlawfully using a weapon during the
   commission of a crime.

   Slager, who is white, allegedly shot Scott, a black man, after a
   traffic stop in April 2015 in the city of North Charleston, South
   Carolina, a state along the southeastern coast of the U.S.

   The former officer also faces state murder charges in connection with
   the shooting. Slager is scheduled to be tried on the murder charges in
   October.

   Video of the shooting was captured and widely publicized on television
   and social media, fueling an already contentious national debate over
   police use of lethalforce.

   Slager is only one of 10 officers facing criminal charges stemming from
   990 deadly police shootings in 2015, according to a Washington Post
   newspaper database.

   The city of North Charleston awarded the Scott family $6.5 million last
   fall to settle a civil case related to the shooting.
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