Get out of jail free: US cities eye bail reform, other efforts to help poor

Mitch Lucas, the assistant sheriff for Charleston County, drives past the lot where Walter Scott was killed every day.

Mr. Scott made it just a few yards across an empty lot in North Charleston, S.C., in April before he was shot multiple times in the back by Michael Slager, the police officer who pulled him over for a broken tail light.

“That’s one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever watched,” Assistant Sheriff Lucas says of the bystander video that led to Mr. Slager being charged with Scott’s murder.

For Scott, a father of four who worked as a forklift operator, a fear of being jailed due to missed child support payments drove him to a flee a traffic stop that day, his relatives said…

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