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Officer in Walter Scott shooting sentenced to 20 years

A white former police officer was sentenced in South Carolina Thursday to 20 years in federal prison in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man. Michael Slager, 36, pleaded guilty to violating the civil rights of 50-year-old Walter Scott. A state murder trial ended in a hung jury. Mark Strassmann reports.
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