Settlements for 2 men over police officer's use of stun gun
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Two men hit with a stun gun by the same South Carolina police officer who killed a black motorist will get almost $80,000 combined for dropping their lawsuits against North Charleston.
North Charleston attorney Brady Hair tells The Post and Courier of Charleston (http://bit.ly/2nkBwCU) the city's happy to resolve the claims involving ex-officer Michael Slager.
Hair and plaintiffs' attorneys said Mario Givens will receive $27,500 and Jerome Stanley will get $50,000 for their run-ins with Slager in 2013. Givens settled in January; Stanley settled this month.
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Neither was seriously injured.
Slager's federal civil rights trial on charges related to the shooting death of Walter Scott is scheduled to start in May. In August, Slager faces a retrial on murder charges in state court.
A bystander captured Scott's shooting on cellphone video.
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Information from: The Post and Courier, http://www.postandcourier.com