The police officer who shot an unarmed black man in the back eight times before killing him will stand trial for murder, but his conviction is far from certain. The State reported two weeks ago that police in South Carolina fired their weapons at 209 suspects in the past five years, but not one has been convicted. Just yesterday, a white policer officer from North Augusta was charged with with a felony (discharging a gun into an occupied vehicle) after shooting a black man to death through the man’s car door when he was in his driveway.
