Former police officer Michael Slager, who shot Walter Scott to death, wants sentence vacated

A former North Charleston police officer serving time in federal prison for fatally shooting unarmed Black man Walter Scott five times in the back in 2015 wants his sentence set aside or cut, CBS Charleston, South Carolina affiliate WCSC-TV reports.

Michael Slager is doing 20 years after pleading guilty to a civil rights charge in 2017. He shot Scott after a traffic stop. The case became a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement.