saturday at a local parking lot. see your license and insurance card? reason for the stop is your brake light is out. oh okay. scott tells slager he just bought the car from a neighbor and does not have the paperwork. slager tells him to wait there and returns to his patrol car. 30 seconds later scott gets out of the car. stay in the car. the officer orders scott to get back in the car. about 15 seconds later, scott make as run for it. then slager alerts headquarters he s in a foot pursuit. the dashcam video does not pick up the altercation after that. in a written statement late yesterday investigating the shooting says we believed early on there was something not right. the cell phone video shot by a bystander confirmed our initial suspicions. this is santana. this is feidin santana.
scott. the reason for the stop is your brake light is out. reporter: the officer asks scott for license, registration insurance card. scott tells slager he just bought the car from his neighbor. you don t have any paperwork in the glove box? no, sir. he has all of that. officer slager walks to his patrol car. 30 seconds later, scott bolts from the car. the next time we see scott, he is running from officer slager who fires eight times, killing him. in a written statement late thursday the head of the state agency investigating the shooting said we believed early on there was something not right, the cell phone video shot by a bystander confirmed our initial suspicions. officer slager s mother says she hasn t watched the video of saturday s shooting and doesn t know if she ever will. but she s apologizing to the scott family. i just want them to know i m sorry that this happened. reporter: remembering better times, her son growing up in
nbc s sarah dollif has more. reporter: calls for police reform in charleston south carolina. a day after dash cam video was released showing the initial traffic stop that brought officer michael slager and walter scott together. at first, their interaction is routine. then scott gets out of the car and runs. there s a gap in between what happens after that and where eyewitness cell phone video begins with slager firing eight shots. the state agency investigating the shooting says they saw inconsistencies right away including what appears to be gunshot wounds in scott s back. a statement reads in part we believed early on there was something not right. the cell phone video shot by a bystander confirmed our initial suspicions. slager has been charged with murdered and fired from his job. his mother has yet to watch the video but offered an apology to the scott family. i just want them to know i am sorry that this happened. i know their family is grieving.
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reporter: this cell phone video shot from a balcony captures the moments just after the shooting. the frantic efforts to try and save the two officers. about a block away from this scene, brinsley, the shooter, takes his own life at a subway platform as police close in. later police announce officers wenjian liu and rafael ramos died for the uniform they wore. angry over police killings of african-american men in new york and missouri. two of new york s finest were shot and killed with no warning, no provocation. they were, quite simply, assassinated. reporter: investigators say a review of brinsley s cell phone contained video they believe he shot in manhattan earlier this month at a protest over the deaths of eric garner and michael brown. brinsley s string of violence began early saturday morning about 200 miles away. police say he gained entrance to