The South Carolina cop who was caught on a cellphone video shooting a
fleeing motorist was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday on a
series of charges — including one that could result in a death penalty.
Michael Slager,
who was fired by the North Charleston Police Department after last
year's killing of Walter Scott, was indicted on charges of violating
civil rights laws, using a firearm in committing a crime of violence,
and obstructing justice in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man.
"This is historic," the Scott family's lawyer,
Chris Stewart, said afterward. "What happened today is that the federal
government says it stops now. Police brutality stops now."
Slager is white. Scott was black. And the message sent by the grand jury is not aimed at the good cops, Stewart said.
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