A South Carolina trooper just pleaded guilty in the shooting of an unarmed black man

Police misconduct on trial.
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A white South Carolina trooper pleaded guilty Monday in the 2014 shooting of an unarmed black man at a traffic stop, The Associated Press reports.

Sean Groubert, who stopped Levar Jones as he was walking to a convenience store, fired four shots as Jones was reaching into his car for his driver's license. The incident was caught on video, and Groubert was fired afterward.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.