Police In Jail For Shooting And Killing A Man

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Former South Carolina officer Michael Slager was sentenced to 20 years in prison after shooting and killing an African-American individual who was not carrying weapons; was unarmed.

Walter Scott was the victim of Slager, indicates ABC News. District Judge David Norton ruled that Slager yesterday committed second-degree murder and obstruction of justice, by taking the life of Scott, a 50-year-old citizen in 2015, from the judge's ruling. from 19 to 24 in prison highlights the news portal.

ABC News reported that at one point while Slager was being sentenced, the mother of the murdered man stared at the officer and told her that she forgave him for the acts committed. Also, members of both families who were in the courts were distressed, to the point of tears.

The case is remembered because the incident of those that occurred in South Carolina was recorded on a cell phone camera by the witness Feiden Santana. Inclusively, here we reproduce images from the video at a given moment it went viral.

Slager's family members asked the judge to give him a lighter sentence. ABC News indicates that former police officer Jamie Slager's wife said her husband had to make a decision in seconds. "I can't imagine what it will be like to make that decision so quickly." On the other hand, the note explains that the judge allegedly reached that decision after Slager, who is white, pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights offense.