What I learned convicting a police officer of murder

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Written By Kelli Ross

By Jared Fishman

In December 2018, I addressed a federal court at the sentencing of a police officer who shot and killed Walter Scott, a 50-year-old unarmed Black man in South Carolina, and argued it was "time to call the killing what it really was -- a murder."

As a federal prosecutor for the United States Department of Justice, I enforced federal civil rights statutes on police misconduct, hate crimes and human trafficking, and led the federal prosecution that secured the conviction of Michael Slager, the police officer who shot and killed Scott.

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