Al and Jesse disagree with the report, sending the families of St. Skittles and St. Swisher to hold church meetings.
Via The State
Police officers in South Carolina fired at 43 suspects last year, killing 18.
Twenty suspects were injured.
One officer lost his life.
And one officer is being prosecuted for misuse of force.
White officers shot more white suspects than black ones by a slim margin of one, according to State Law Enforcement Division records collected from agencies across South Carolina and reviewed by The State newspaper. Overall, more black suspects were shot than white by officers of any race, but again by a slim margin.[…]
SLED, South Carolina’s principal criminal investigative agency, conducts almost all inquiries when police fire in the line of duty. Apart from some scattered incidents, SLED’s records are comprehensive. But they are not easily reviewed. Details about the incidents must be culled from thousands of pages of investigative material collected and reviewed by the agency.
The shooting incidents in 2014 stemmed mostly from suspects who shot at or threatened officers who were responding to calls for help, making traffic stops, conducting investigations or serving warrants, according to records that SLED compiled.