ager shooting at Scott as he runs away from him. The video also shows Slager dropping a Taser near Scott after he was gunned dow=. Obviously Officer Slager lied. Thank God there was a passerb= videoing the incident, otherwise most people would have taken Slager's word. Officer=was arrested on Tuesday, A

amily court-issued warrants for his arrest. Slage= pursued Scott into a grassy lot and claimed that he fired his Taser to subdue him. Moments later, Slager reported on his radio, "Shots fired and th= subject is down. He took my Taser." Earlier this week, an attorney for Slager said the cop felt threaten

ve a person of a federal right"). 201 The prosecution of South Carolina police officer Michael Slager provides an example. State prosecutors charged Slager with murder; federal prosecutors charged him with criminal violation of civil rights under 18 U.S.C. § 242. For an example of this contrast between s