南卡大陪审团起诉打死黑人的警官

A South Carolina grand jury has indicted a white former police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man fleeing after a traffic stop.

Michael Slager was fired and accused of murder in the April 4 killing of 50-year-old Walter Scott. Slager pulled Scott over for driving with a broken brake light.

A video, taken by a bystander with a cellphone camera, showed Scott running away as Slager pulls his gun and fires eight shots. Slager initially said he opened fire after Scott had taken his electronic stun gun during a scuffle

Slager faces between 30 years and life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted.

The South Carolina incident is one of the latest in a series of fatal encounters in the United States between unarmed black males and white police.

The incidents led to large protests across the nation over aggressive police tactics in minority communities.

The U.S. Justice Department has launched investigations into possible civil rights violations by police in a number of the cases.

白人警察迈克尔·斯拉格尔今年4月开枪打死50岁的沃尔特·斯科特之后被解雇并被控谋杀。斯拉格尔因为斯科特驾驶的车辆刹车灯故障而命令他停车。

一个旁观者用手机拍摄的视屏显示，斯科特企图逃离现场，警察斯拉格尔向他连开8枪。斯拉格尔最初说，他和斯科特发生扭打，斯科特抢走了他的电棍。

如果罪名成立，斯拉格尔有可能被判处30年徒刑，甚至是无期徒刑，不得假释。

美国最近发生多起未携带武装黑人死于白人警察之手的事件，南卡的枪击案是其中之一。

这些事件引发了全美各地的大规模抗议示威。 人们抗议警察在少数族裔社区过度使用警力的做法。美国司法部已对一些案件展开调查，看警察是否侵犯了公民权利。