But Scott's family has suggested that it was because he owed back child-support payments and didn't want to be arrested.
The video didn't show Scott taking the stun gun.Ī co-worker of Scott's who was riding with Slager when he was pulled over told jurors that he didn't know why Scott ran. Slager had claimed that Scott took control of his Taser and that he feared for his life in a scuffle after the traffic stop. The cellphone video began recording after the stop, when the men were standing in a vacant lot. Scott, a father of four children, was stopped by Slager for a broken taillight. A bystander captured the shooting of Scott on his cellphone, and the graphic video, which was viewed by the public millions of times, became a key piece of evidence for the prosecution. Slager's sentencing capped a winding case that followed other notable police-involved deaths in Ferguson, Missouri Cleveland and New York, and it highlighted how rare it is for law enforcement officers to be convicted or to plead guilty in such incidents. Michael Slager, right, walks from the Charleston County Courthouse under the protection of Charleston County sheriff's deputies after a mistrial in December 2016. In that trial, Slager had faced 30 years to life in prison if convicted.
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That was in exchange for state prosecutors' dropping their case after a month-long murder trial ended in a hung jury a year ago. I'm standing before the Scott family and the court and taking responsibility for the actions of April 4, 2015."įederal prosecutors had sought life in prison for Slager, who agreed to plead guilty in May to a federal charge of violating Scott's civil rights. Sixteen new apartment units will be made available in Greensboro, while in High Point six new houses will be provided for veterans experiencing homelessness.In his final statement before sentencing, the ex-officer said: "I wish I could go back in time and change the events. "And as you see with a couple of properties in this cycle that are from the Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point area, they’re important to those communities and they make a huge impact, even though they may be small in size and small in number, it’s still units that otherwise wouldn’t be available without this important state resource," says Farmer.
Farmer says the relatively small-scale program is doing its best to fulfill a great need for affordable housing throughout the state. Scott Farmer is the executive director for the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency. The funding will be administered through the state’s Supportive Housing Development Program, which finances emergency, transitional, and permanent housing for special needs residents who fall below 50 percent of the area median income. The North Carolina State Housing Finance Agency has approved $4.3 million in funding for properties geared toward those with special housing needs, including military veterans, children aging out of foster care, and people with disabilities.
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