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Ex-officer Michael Slager pleads guilty in shooting death of Walter Scott In a deal with federal prosecutors, former South Carolina police officer Michael Slager pleaded guilty Tuesday to one charge of deprivation of rights under color of law in the shooting death of Walter Scott. In exchange for his plea in US District Court in South Carolina, Slager will not face state murder charges. [Original story, published at 2:23 p.m. ET] Michael Slager, the former South Carolina police officer who fatally shot a man in the back, will plead guilty to a federal charge of using excessive force, his attorney...

As a kid, when I got up in the morning, there was no more welcome a sight than a box of donuts on the kitchen table. Of course, I liked to eat donuts, but that was not the reason I welcomed their arrival. No, what the donuts told me was that while I was sleeping, my father had arrived home safely. My father was a police officer in Newark, New Jersey, a city in which bad things routinely happen to good cops. As South Carolina police officer Michael Slager has learned the hard way, today, bad things can happen to...

Michael Slager, the officer who faced murder and manslaughter charges for shooting an unarmed black man in the back, will face a re-trial after the jury deadlocked over his case on Monday — and experts say there's still a strong case against him. While eleven jurors backed convicting an officer for the shooting at one point, according to a note written by one of the jurors, a holdout juror said he felt he could not vote to convict the officer in "good conscience." Prosecutors swiftly announced they would re-try the case, which is a legal option after any jury deadlocks.

BREAKING NEWS - Mistrial declared in Michael Slager murder case

The city of North Charleston, South Carolina, agreed Thursday to pay $6.5 million to the family of Walter Scott, the unarmed African-American man who was shot in the back by a white police officer in April, settling a potential lawsuit after six months of negotiations. Scott, 50, died after he was shot April 4 as he was running away from former police Officer Michael Slager, who fired eight shots at Scott in a confrontation recorded on a bystander's video. He remains held without bond on a charge of murder.

In a court order issued Monday, South Carolina Judge Clifton Newman ruled that former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager will continue to be held without bond while he awaits trial on first degree murder charges in the March shooting of Walter Scott, a killing captured on cellphone video. “After careful consideration of all of the evidence presented and the nature and circumstances of the offense, the Court finds that the release of Defendant would constitute an unreasonable danger to the community,” Newman wrote. Attorneys for Slager and Scott’s family spent two days last week debating whether he should be...

The horrific story of the unarmed Walter Scott’s death at the hands of Officer Michael Slager continues to reverberate. Aside from the incontrovertible evidence on the tape that the accused officer shot him in the back as if he were doing target practice, there has since emerged more tape of the traffic stop itself and audio of the officer speaking with his superiors on the phone raising even more questions about his state of mind at the time of the shooting. But as journalists have gone back and studied the officer’s record and found that he was previously investigated for...

Lawsuit alleges suspect wasn’t a threat when he was shot in the back Allegations of excessive force used on minorities are mounting against the South Carolina police officer recently caught on video fatally shooting unarmed suspect Walter Scott in the back. Julius Garnett Wilson alleges in a new lawsuit that he was tased by officer Michael Slager last August while lying face-down on the pavement.

Solicitor Scarlett Wilson released the document from the state's supreme court naming Clifton Newman to hear the case. "I received this via email from Court Administration late this afternoon," said Wilson in a Facebook post on Tuesday regarding the order."While I was unaware this was in the works, it is not without precedent for the Chief Justice to assign judges to cases, sua sponte." A South Carolina Judicial Department website lists Newman, 63, as a judge based in Kingstree. [...] On Monday, Wilson said South Carolina's death penalty provision did not appear to apply to Slager's case in the death...

On April 4, less than an hour after Slager fatally shot 50-year-old Walter Scott....When investigators attempted to speak to Slager, he told them he had retained an attorney, Berry said. Investigators began interviewing Slager on the morning of April 7, Berry said, and Slager was arrested later that day at the end of the interview. He was charged with murder and fired.

"Our agents and crime scene technicians arrived shortly after the incident took place," said SLED Chief Mark Keel."There were inconsistencies including what appeared to be multiple gunshot wounds in Mr. Scott's back. We believed early on that there was something not right about what happened in that encounter. The cell phone video shot by a bystander confirmed our initial suspicions."..."I appreciate that Feidin Santana was worried about his safety and whether he could trust the police after what he saw and captured on his cell phone. I'm grateful he decided not to erase the video. We are eager to discuss...

North Charleston Patrolman First Class Michael Slager, 33, has been charged with murder in connection with the Saturday morning shooting death of Scott...Summey said Scott was hit with the officer's Taser weapon, and they know that, Summey said, because one of the Taser projectiles was still attached...Reports state Scott attempted to flee, resulting in a foot pursuit. Officer Slager then deployed his Taser weapon to detain the driver but was unsuccessful, a spokesperson for the police department said...Police say an altercation then began between Slager and Scott resulting in a fight for the officer's Taser. During the fight, Scott allegedly...

Dashboard video shows a police officer making a routine traffic stop. Cellphone video shows the officer shooting the fleeing motorist in the back. What remains a mystery is what happened during the minutes in between that led the police officer to become a killer. The dash cam footage released by state police on Thursday showed North Charleston Officer Michael Thomas Slager pulling over black motorist Walter Scott for a broken brake light last weekend. Slager, who is white, has been charged with murder in Scott’s death. […] What’s missing is what happens from the time the two men run out...

Updated 4/12/15 2:15pm with additional video On the first day we saw the North Charleston, South Carolina, shooting video of Walter Scott by Officer Michael Slager we were as shocked as everyone. However, as our research now indicates, there is much more to the story. What we cover here in the latest update might just change the entire way the story continues… ◾Day #1 April 7th – The shock of the video ◾Day #2 April 8th – The community reaction/response ◾Day #3 April 9th – The video witness comes forth – The Dash Cam Video released ◾Day #4 April 10th...

State law-enforcement authorities in South Carolina have filed murder charges against Michael Slager, the North Charleston police officer who killed 50-year-old Walter Scott by shooting him several times, mostly in the back as Scott was fleeing. Slager is currently being held without bail, has been fired by the police department, and faces a potential death sentence, or a term of 30 years to life in prison, if convicted. That, moreover, is just on a murder charge. There appears to be considerable evidence that Slager also obstructed justice. Officials are investigating whether he moved his Taser from the scene of an...