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.