A white former South Carolina police officer plans to plead guilty to violating the civil rights of an unarmed black motorist he shot and killed.

A South Carolina judge has declared a mistrial after a jury was deadlocked in the murder trial of a white former police officer charged over the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist.

A city in South Carolina is to pay the family of an unarmed black man shot dead by a white policeman $6.5m.

A white South Carolina police officer has been dismissed from his job after being charged with murder for shooting an apparently unarmed black man in the back as he fled, the latest death that has brought protesters out to decry racism and police brutality in the United States.

In the United States, demonstrators have gathered in the city of North Charleston to protest at the fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer.