A white former police officer, caught on video as he shot dead a Black man fleeing a traffic stop in South Carolina, has been charged with a federal civil rights offense that could send him to prison for life, U.S. prosecutors said Wednesday. Ex-North Charleston patrolman Michael Slager, 34, used excessive force and had no legal justification
US Cop Faces Life In Prison for Killing Innocent Black Man
Only 1.7 percent of U.S. police officers arrested between 2005 and 2011 for alleged crimes were charged.