{"id":959,"date":"2016-01-05T08:40:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T00:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/05\/bail-approved-for-ex-cop-charged-in-walter-scotts-shooting-death\/"},"modified":"2016-01-05T08:40:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T00:40:27","slug":"bail-approved-for-ex-cop-charged-in-walter-scotts-shooting-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/05\/bail-approved-for-ex-cop-charged-in-walter-scotts-shooting-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Bail approved for ex-cop charged in Walter Scott&#039;s shooting death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ap_331771767701\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAxLzA1Lzg1L0FQXzMzMTc3MTc2LmRhMzM2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/4c8765e9\/1e7\/AP_331771767701.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Bail+approved+for+ex-cop+charged+in+Walter+Scott%27s+shooting+death&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F04%2Fbail-approved-michael-slager-walter-scott%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F04%2Fbail-approved-michael-slager-walter-scott%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A state judge approved bail Monday for a former South Carolina police officer charged with killing an unarmed black motorist.<\/p>\n<p>Circuit Judge Clifton Newman in Charleston allowed a $500,000 surety bond for Michael Slager. Newman also set an Oct. 31 trial date. Slager will have to remain in South Carolina while out on bail. It was not immediately clear Monday afternoon when he would be released.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/10\/08\/walter-scott-settlement\/?utm_campaign=&amp;utm_context=textlink&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_source=\">City to pay $6.5M settlement to family of Walter Scott for shooting death<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>While the Charleston County Sheriff&#8217;s office tweeted that Slager was still in custody late Monday afternoon, its website showed he had been released. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/04\/bail-approved-michael-slager-walter-scott\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/us-world\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Us World<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/walter-scott\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Walter Scott<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/michael-slager\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Michael Slager<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/charleston\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Charleston<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/GhEz-LAfbGM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A state judge approved bail Monday for a former South Carolina police officer charged with killing an unarmed black motorist. Circuit Judge Clifton Newman in Charleston allowed a $500,000 surety bond for Michael Slager. Newman also set an Oct. 31 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/05\/bail-approved-for-ex-cop-charged-in-walter-scotts-shooting-death\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,486,1,45,485],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charleston","category-michael-slager","category-other","category-us-world","category-walter-scott"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}