Full Coverage: South Carolina police shooting

Amid mounting suspicion that police officers in South Carolina attempted to cover up the circumstances of the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man, civil rights leaders are urging the U.S.

Michael Slager, the former North Charleston police officer charged with murder for shooting a fleeing man after a traffic stop, refused to speak to investigators at the scene that day, officials revealed Tuesday.

The police officer charged with murder for shooting a fleeing man in the back in North Charleston, S.C., twice told another police officer shortly after the April 4 incident that he didn’t understand why the man fled after a seemingly routine traffic stop.

Walter Lamar Scott, a black man shot in the back by a white police patrolman, was borne to his grave Saturday inside a flag-draped coffin escorted by motorcycle police from that same officer’s North Charleston Police Department.

Karen Sharpe on Friday visited her son, Michael, under circumstances no mother would ever want to endure.

The graphic and now familiar video showing Officer Michael T. Slager shooting Walter L.

Prosecutors in South Carolina plan to go to a local grand jury with the case of the former North Charleston police officer who shot and killed a black man during a traffic stop.

The dashboard camera video shows what appears to be a routine traffic stop -- until it is not.

To many black residents, the overt hatred and segregation that ruled this place during the Jim Crow era has morphed into something more insidious: the routine traffic stop.

After the rare arrest of a South Carolina police officer in the death of Walter Scott in North Charleston this week, developments in other cases have also refocused the nation’s attention on fatal shootings by police.

There’s a new sort of racial profile, and Keith Summey probably finds it uncomfortable: He’s another white mayor of a mostly black town, where a white police officer has killed an unarmed black man.

The chief of South Carolina’s state police agency said late Thursday that its agents suspected criminal wrongdoing by North Charleston police officer Michael T.

Crowdfunding site GoFundMe shut down a campaign for Michael T.

Unlike other videos in the last year that have shown a law officer shooting an unarmed suspect, the shaky smartphone footage that went viral this week leaves little to the imagination.

A video from the camera in a police cruiser shows Walter L.

If not for a chilling cellphone video, the shooting of Walter Scott in North Charleston, S.C., might have been written off as a justified police shooting, another case of an officer gunning down a man because he feared for his life.

A video shot by a passerby has roiled this Southern city and led to a white police officer being dismissed from his job and charged with murder after he was seen firing eight shots at a fleeing black man.

The family gathered for an impromptu memorial on the grass where Walter L.

The White House said Wednesday that a dramatic video showing a white police officer in South Carolina shooting and killing a black man as he ran away shows why police officers should wear body cameras.

Like the fatal Aug. 9, 2014, police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., the Saturday shooting of Walter Lamar Scott in North Charleston, S.C., has already gained national attention and stirred outrage.

The video appears to be damning: a white police officer fatally shooting a black man in the back as he ran away.

A South Carolina police officer was charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed black man after authorities obtained a video that showed him unleash a volley of gunfire while the victim ran away, officials said.