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(NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C.) — A city in South Carolina has reached a $6.5 million settlement with the family of an unarmed black man shot to death earlier this year by a white city police officer. The North Charleston City Council approved the settlement by a 10-0 vote Thursday. The council had met several times in the past few months to receive advice from city attorney Brady Hair on a potential lawsuit by the family of Walter Scott. The 50-year-old Scott was shot April 4 by North Charleston officer Michael Slager while trying to run from a traffic stop.

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