CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- A lawyer for a South Carolina police officer charged with murder after he was captured on video shooting a fleeing man in the back is trying to change the public's perception of what happened. During a bail hearing Thursday, defense attorney Andy Savage said small amounts of cocaine were found in Walter Scott's system after he was killed, and he suggested that Scott tried to take North Charleston officer Michael Slager's Taser and use it against him. The judge hearing th...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- A lawyer for a South Carolina police officer charged with murder after he was captured on video shooting a fleeing man in the back is trying to change the public's perception of what happened. During a bail hearing Thursday, defense attorney Andy Savage said small amounts of cocaine were found in Walter Scott's system after he was killed, and he suggested that Scott tried to take North Charleston officer Michael Slager's Taser and use it against him. The judge hearing th...
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