Michael Slager accused of using Taser on unarmed black man in 2013

A black North Charleston man who says the police officer charged with the murder of Walter Scott used a Taser on him for no reason in 2013 is pursuing legal action against the city’s police department, his lawyer said on Thursday.

“In Mr Scott’s case we only have a video and a dead witness, but today we have a live witness,” said Mario Givens’s attorney Eduardo Curry.

Givens said that Officer Michael Slager banged on Givens’s front door at around 4am in September 2013 and used a Taser on him, even though he had put out his hands as requested. “He never even told me why he came,” said Givens.

“I didn’t know what was going on; he never said nothing,” said Givens. “He didn’t even announce he was police, he just pounded on the door.”

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