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Judge Declares Mistrial for Cop Captured on Video Shooting Unarmed Black Man in the Back

SOUTH CAROLINA–(ENEWSPF)–December 5, 2016

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By Josie Duffy Rice

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A mistrial has been declared in the case against Michael Slager, the former police officer that shot and killed Walter Scott, an unarmed black man, in South Carolina in April 2015.

A circuit judge confirmed the mistrial after the jury was unable to come to a unanimous decision. “The court therefore must declare a mistrial in this case and I so declare that is case is mistried,”…

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