COLUMBIA (AP) — A judge upheld a 20-year prison sentence on Monday for former police officer Michael Slager in the killing of Walter Scott, an unarmed Black man who ran from a traffic stop in South Carolina, rejecting Slager’s claims ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — A white former police officer serving 20 years in prison for killing an unarmed Black man in South Carolina who ran from a traffic stop said his lawyer never told him about a plea offer from prosecutors ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is siding with a New Mexico woman who was shot by police as she drove away from them, in a case that will allow more excessive force lawsuits against police to go forward. The ...

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  A former North Charleston police officer who shot and killed an unarmed man in 2015 has lost an appeal arguing that a federal judge erred by sentencing him to 20 years in prison. The former cop, Michael Slager, sparked ...

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Two South Carolina law officers were charged Friday in the deaths of two women who drowned while locked in the back of a sheriff’s department van during Hurricane Florence. Stephen Flood is charged with two counts each of reckless homicide ...

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A former South Carolina police officer who is suing the city of Pickens over his termination has now been charged with sexual exploitation and solicitation of a minor. The Greenville News reports 28-year-old former Pickens police Officer Akiel Jamar McKnight ...

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Sheriff’s deputies in South Carolina say they’ve arrested a man who attacked another deputy, knocking him down and taking his gun. Anderson County Sheriff Chad McBride told news outlets that officers were trying to serve an arrest warrant near Belton ...

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A sheriff’s office in South Carolina says two weapons have been stolen from a deputy’s unlocked sports utility patrol vehicle. Greenville County Sheriff’s Lt. Ryan Flood said in a news release the weapons were stolen early Monday from a vehicle ...

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Police say a man who fled from an officer trying to pull him over for speeding had barricaded himself in his South Carolina home when officers went to arrest him the next day. Lexington police Chief Terrence Green tells news ...

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A former South Carolina police officer who was fired for hitting a handcuffed black man says officials used a flashlight inscribed with a Nazi symbol to scapegoat him. The Post and Courier reports Leroy Hair denied knowing about the North ...

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