Comparison Of Michael Slager Trial And Brown Trial

“Fairness is not an attitude. It’s a professional skill that must be developed and exercised”- Britt Hume. Fair trials are something that doesn't happen often, but in the Slager trials and the Brown trials, there is truly no such thing as a fair trial. The Michael Brown trial was when Brown, a black young adult, was unarmed and was shot by a white male Ferguson police officer. The police officer was not charged with any crime relating to the shooting of Michael Brown. The Michael Slager trial was when Slager, a white male officer, shot Walter Scott, a black male, while Scott was running away during a traffic stop. As a repercussion of the trial, Slager has been fired from the North Charleston Police Department after shooting Scott. There is

Selection of jury members for the Michael Slager case, “a former white officer shot a fleeing blacks man during a traffic stop”, will be held in Columbia (Roldáncroldan). Slager’s defense team requested that jurors be selected all throughout the state considering the “cases extensive pretrial publicity” (Roldáncroldan). This is explaining how some jurors can be bias because some parts of the state are more bias to one side than the other part is, the upcountry is less bias than the lowcountry. The jury will consist of 11 white people and one black man and they are scheduled to listen to the opening statement of Slager soon ("Jury Seated in Ex-cop's Trial for Walter Scott's Death"). This is explaining that there are more white people on the jury than there are black people and this could make the verdict bias considering that Slager is a white man and Scott was a black man. So, there is no such thing as a fair trial because juror members can go in favor of one side of the

In the Michael Brown case officers forgot a very “important piece of evidence: a [video] of the Brown shooting.”(Paul Cassell). But the video was not released by the attorney’s office nor the police department. In this case, this video of the shooting could have been a very important piece of evidence and could have changed people’s opinion on the trial and could have helped answer some questions about the case. A few days later the news published the video and the evidence was plain, Slager fired at Scott at a distance hitting him frequently in the back (Adam Hamze, Nick Wing). The video also showed that Scott was unarmed but, it also proved that the officer was accurate about Scott charging at him (Paul Cassell). This clearly proves that this video should not have been overlooked and should’ve been released earlier because it shows important information about what happened in the shooting. So in conclusion, evidence such as videos, pictures, or items can be disregarded by police and they could show very important information about the