South Carolina’s first black chief justice dead at 86

Monday, 4 December 2017 (8 hours ago)
South Carolina’s first black chief justice dead at 86

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Ernest Finney, South Carolina’s first Africa-American chief justice since Reconstruction, has died. He was 86. South Carolina Deputy Supreme Court Clerk Brenda Shealy said Finney died Sunday afternoon. She did not have details on the death. Finney spent a lifetime breaking racial barriers in South Carolina. He was one of just […]

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News video: South Carolina ex-cop who killed black man to be sentenced

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A U.S. judge on Monday will begin hearing evidence on whether former South Carolina policeman, Michael Slager who was caught on video shooting unarmed black man, Walter Scott in the back should spend the rest of his life in prison. Nathan Frandino reports.